Pies: In Australia, a man who was arrested for drug possession argued his civil rights were violated when the drug-sniffing do

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Protecting Health, Respecting Rights: Decriminalizing Drug Possession as a Constitutional Imperative. Between 1969 and 1972, the Le Dain Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medicinal Use of Drugs undertook a comprehensive study of Canadian drug laws, exposing their negative effects and recommending that Canada move away from criminalizing people who use drugs. Fifty years later, drug prohibition remains firmly in place, and the numbers speak for themselves: over 19,000 overdose deaths from opioids alone between January 2016 and September 2020, and an unprecedented stagnation in Canadian life expectancy attributed to the overdose crisis. Criminalizing drug use by prohibiting possession for pe…

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The Philippine drug war, also referred to as the Philippine war on drugs, is the intensified anti-drug campaign initiated during the administration of Rodrigo Duterte, who served as President of the Philippines from June 30, 2016, to June 30, 2022. By February 2022, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) reported that out of the 42K villages; 24K was declared "drug-free", it has been marred by extrajudicial killings (EJK) allegedly perpetrated by the police and unknown assailants. By 2022, the number of drug suspects killed since 2016 was officially tallied by the government as totaling 6,252; human rights organizations and academics, however, estimate that 12,000 to 30,000 civilians…

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