drug policy

Toronto City Council Endorses Vienna Declaration 
and Calls for Evidence-based Drug Policy

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 10:00am
Vienna Declaration
 
26 August 2010 [Toronto, Canada] – Toronto City Council today voted to endorse the Vienna Declaration, a recently released document that highlights the failure of the global War on Drugs and calls for a transparent review of the effectiveness of current drug policies.

The City of Toronto is the first municipality to join a long list of Nobel Laureates and academic, political, law enforcement and health leaders to endorse and sign the Vienna Declaration, the official declaration of the XVIII International AIDS conference (AIDS 2010) held in Vienna, Austria from July 18-23, 2010.

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A less proud country

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Wed, 08/04/2010 - 1:33pm
By Lawrence Scanlan, Ottawa Citizen Special
 
There's been a sea change, a darkening of the political climate in this country. The first instinct is to discount such troubling thoughts. So perhaps the view of someone born elsewhere, but long on our shores, is more to be trusted.
 
Ursula Franklin -- the celebrated physicist, pacifist, author and Companion of the Order of Canada -- recently spoke to CBC Radio's The Current. She had survived a Nazi death camp and come to Canada hoping for better. Now 88, Franklin is "profoundly worried about the absence and erosion of democracy in Canada."

Hey, here's your chance to help shape international drug policy!

Submitted by Yukonlass on Tue, 07/06/2010 - 9:04pm
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The Vienna Declaration is an anti-prohibition petition created by leading drug policy scientists and harm reduction experts to be presented at the International AIDS conference in Vienna. The Conference, the world's largest, brings together experts from around the world to discuss ways for politicians to deal with HIV/AIDS. We need as many signatures on this petition as possible to help have the declaration adopted.
 
This is our chance to bring drug policy reform to the world stage! Sign the Vienna Declaration today by clicking here!
 
 
 
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