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EU calls for 'common language' to describe drug-related crime

Ensuring a high level of security for the general public is prominent on the European policy agenda and stepping up work to prevent drug-related crime is one of the key goals of...

Magic mushroom business presents law-makers with dilemmas

‘Hallucinogenic mushrooms were among the first psychoactive substances consumed by man. But today they present us with a new dilemma’, says EMCDDA Director Wolfgang Götz in the latest edition in the agency’s...

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Alternatives to punishment for drug-using offenders

Based on the options provided by the international drug control legal framework, this paper considers the rehabilitative measures of treating, educating or reintegrating drug users as alternatives or additions to conviction or...

Hallucinogenic mushrooms: the challenge of responding to naturally occurring substances in an electronic age

Over the past decade, media interest in the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms appears to have been driven by open marketing of these mushrooms and by the legal changes made in some countries...

Illicit drug use in the EU: legislative approaches

The paper offers an overview of the current legal provisions on the use and possession of drugs for personal use in the EU Member States. The first part of the study focuses...

Information systems based on law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system

This report in three volumes is the result of an analysis of material submitted to the EMCDDA in the period 2000–01 on the sources of law enforcement and criminal justice information in...

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