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Drug policy in search of glocal solutions

Drug policy in search of glocal solutions Editorial Axel Klein Editor A.Klein@kent.ac.uk Drug policy in search of glo-cal Dutch merchants from selling Indian or Turkish solutions opium to China in the late 19th century, the activists Spring has been a busy period for the drug policy had to get their respective governments to co-operate. calendar. Every year the supreme body of The discussion was replicated within large countries, international drug control, the Commission on where police forces had to work across state lines. In Narcotic Drugs meets at the UN offices in Vienna. the US, during the 1920s, lobbyists for the creation of Normally an uneventful bureaucratic fest where a federal police force claimed that law enforcement delegates trot out statistics on budgets and seizures and needed to operate across state boundaries to counter solemnly re-affirm their commitment to the noble trafficking in the newly prohibited drugs. Today, a fight against drugs, the end of the 10-year strategy similar argument is being made for closer co- added some spice. For the first time the august body operation of law enforcement agencies within the EU had to look back upon a policy entirely of its own and the introduction of the EU-wide arrest warrant. making and assess http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Drugs and Alcohol Today Emerald Publishing

Drug policy in search of glocal solutions

Drugs and Alcohol Today , Volume 8 (2): 3 – Jun 1, 2008

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Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISSN
1745-9265
DOI
10.1108/17459265200800010
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Editorial Axel Klein Editor A.Klein@kent.ac.uk Drug policy in search of glo-cal Dutch merchants from selling Indian or Turkish solutions opium to China in the late 19th century, the activists Spring has been a busy period for the drug policy had to get their respective governments to co-operate. calendar. Every year the supreme body of The discussion was replicated within large countries, international drug control, the Commission on where police forces had to work across state lines. In Narcotic Drugs meets at the UN offices in Vienna. the US, during the 1920s, lobbyists for the creation of Normally an uneventful bureaucratic fest where a federal police force claimed that law enforcement delegates trot out statistics on budgets and seizures and needed to operate across state boundaries to counter solemnly re-affirm their commitment to the noble trafficking in the newly prohibited drugs. Today, a fight against drugs, the end of the 10-year strategy similar argument is being made for closer co- added some spice. For the first time the august body operation of law enforcement agencies within the EU had to look back upon a policy entirely of its own and the introduction of the EU-wide arrest warrant. making and assess

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Drugs and Alcohol TodayEmerald Publishing

Published: Jun 1, 2008

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