Index

Collapse of the Global Order on Drugs: From UNGASS 2016 to Review 2019

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Publication date: 15 October 2018

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(2018), "Index", Klein, A. and Stothard, B. (Ed.) Collapse of the Global Order on Drugs: From UNGASS 2016 to Review 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 293-304. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-487-920181018

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INDEX

Accusatory bias
, 140–141

Action Plans
, 236, 272

Addicted life
, 14–15

Addiction Committee
, 180

Afyun
, 170

Ajam
, 180

Ajustes de cuenta
, 206

Al-Qaeda attack
, 182

Amnesty International
, 236

Amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS)
, 170–171, 173–175, 182–183

Amphetamines
, 105

Annual Report Questionnaire (ARQ)
, 66–69, 282

revision
, 72–74

AP
, 112, 119, 256

Arabian Peninsula
, 173

Armenian Drug Squad
, 14–15

ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Drug Matters (AMMD)
, 152

ASEAN-ish Positions at UNGASS
, 2016, 154–157

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
, 152

consensus
, 161–162

human rights violations driving further divergences in
, 157–159

positions taken post-UNGASS
, 159–161

on road to UNGASS
, 2016, 153–154

Authoritarian control
, 2

Autocultivo bill
, 204n9, 205–206

Balloon effect
, 250, 254

Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme
, 236

Betäubungsmittelgesetzes (BtMG)
, 115n3

Beyond 2008 initiative
, 27

Blood-borne viruses
, 8–9

Bolivia
, 191

coca and forced eradication
, 193

Coca Sí, Cocaina No’
, 198–199

Cocaleros’ pressure for reform
, 197–198

Compañero Evo’s personal leadership
, 197

drug policy protagonism in
, 192–199

option
, 121

social control
, 193–195

taking on conventions
, 195–196

Boredom
, 172–173

Bottom-up reform
, 103, 112–117

BRICS
, 143–144

British Broadcasting Organisation (BBC)
, 173, 176, 199

Broader civil society mobilisation
, 24–26

Broader human rights violations
, 55–57

Broader implications for drug control regime and 2019
, 57–59

Brownfield Doctrine
, 258

Budgetary allocation
, 182

Building Excellent Schools Today program (BEST)
, 257

Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte (BfArM)
, (see Federal Institute for Medicine and Medicinal Products)

Bureaucracy
, 183

Cable News Network (CNN)
, 157n28, 173, 207

California, cannabis use in
, 256

Cannabidiol (CBD)
, 118

Cannabis
, 6–8, 102, 107, 144, 171, 239, 255

activism
, 203

bottom-up reform
, 112–117

counters
, 281

European Dimension
, 108–110

growing international disparity in cannabis control
, 110–112

in international drug control regime
, 112

laws
, 255

legal cannabis
, 281

legal regulation of supply
, 123–124

market
, 119–120

normalisation process
, 113

obligations of drug control conventions
, 122–123

option of procedures
, 121–122

options for reform
, 119

path to 2019
, 117–119

regime
, 120–121

shifting cannabis policy
, 278–279

soft defection and limits of latitude
, 104–108

UNGASS (2016)
, 102–104

‘Cannabis clubs’ model
, 221

Cannabis reform

implementation and effects of
, 200–201

mobilising for
, 204–206

unsatisfactory
, 279–282

Cannabis Social Clubs (CSCs)
, 113–114

Capital punishment
, 49–50, 57

Captagon
, 172–173

Catania Report (2004)
, 235

Cato
, 198

Chapare region
, 194

City-cantons
, 280n2

Civil society
, 22

participation
, 23

Civil society engagement

1998 UNGASS
, 24–26

beyond 2008 initiative
, 27

civil society engagement in Vienna
, 23–24

‘Dear Bobby’ letter and ever-increasing civil society engagement
, 26

on drug policy at UN leading up to UNGASS 2016
, 22

historic resistance to civil society engagement in drug policy
, 22

in West Africa
, 269

Civil Society Engagement in New York and Vienna
, 29–30

Civil society organisations (CSOs)
, 74–75, 89, 269

Civil Society Task Force (CSTF)
, 32, 42, 85

formation
, 32

work of CSTF
, 32–34

Civil tribunals
, 223

Civil War
, 173–175

Clinton Administration
, 253

Coca

and forced eradication
, 193

growers
, 194

leaf
, 193

Coca Sí, Cocaina No’
, 197–199

‘Coca yes, cocaine no’ policy
, 192, 194

Cocaine
, 105

trafficking
, 135n1

Cocaleros’ pressure for reform
, 197–198

Code of Administrative Offences
, 139

Coffee shops
, 105, 219

Cole Memo
, 254–255

Colorado
, 237

64th Amendment
, 255

Department of Revenue
, 257

Commissions for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction (CDT)
, 223

Committee of the Regions (CoR)
, 117

Committee of Whole (COW)
, 23

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
, 145

Compañero Evo’s personal leadership
, 197

Consensus and contradictions in ASEAN
, 153–154

ASEAN on road to UNGASS 2016

ASEAN positions taken post-UNGASS
, 159–162

ASEAN-esque and ASEAN-ish Positions at UNGASS (2016)
, 154–157

‘drug-free’ ASEAN
, 152

human rights violations driving further divergences in ASEAN
, 157–159

Conservativism
, 172

Continuity and Change
, 107

Cooperative control
, 194

Copenhagen City Council
, 221

Corporal punishment
, 58

Criminal Code
, 141

Criminal justice system
, 136

Critical reforms
, 259

Criticism
, 5

‘Cromnibus’ bill
, 255

Cultural and historical roots of epistemic /clinical abyss
, 90–93

Czech Republic
, 217–218

background
, 225–226

broader context
, 227–228

current policy
, 226–227

perception
, 225

Daily Star
, 179

DCHQ
, 172

De facto

legalisation
, 113

monopoly
, 91–92

Netherlands
, 104

De jure legal regulation
, 121

Dead weight of multilateral consensus
, 103, 121, 260

Death penalty
, 49

broader implications for drug control regime and 2019
, 57–59

for drugs in context of broader human rights violations
, 55–57

international drug control law on growth of death penalty
, 52–54

in international law
, 50–52

in Iran
, 175–178

in practice
, 54–55

Decree-law 183/2001
, 224

Decriminalisation
, 33, 161, 222

of cannabis possession
, 225

Portuguese model
, 115

Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
, 118, 220, 257, 280–281

‘Demand reduction’ efforts
, 24–25

Deputy Secretary General (DSG)
, 29, 31–32

Dervish
, 172

Detoxification
, 183

Domestic criminal justice system
, 53

Double standards
, 180

Droleg
, 278

Dronabinol®
, 281n4

Drug
, (see also Cannabis; Opium)

abuse
, 69

in context of broader human rights violations
, 55–57

drug-related acquisitive crime
, 277

drug-related deaths
, 277

drug-related insecurity
, 206–207

drug-related offences
, 5, 54–55

drug-related socioeconomic issues
, 77

markets
, 2

as medicine or menace
, 6–8

offences
, 49–50, 53

offenders
, 53, 162

possession or use
, 269

producer
, 13

prohibition
, 168–170

propaganda
, 135

states in West Africa
, 268–269

testing laws
, 139

tourism
, 108

treatment system
, 137

Drug Abuse Information Network for Asia and Pacific (DAINAP)
, 68

Drug control
, (see also International drug control), 13, 22, 49–50

evaporation of moral authority
, 14–15

policies
, 67, 135–137

regime
, 57–59

system
, 14–15, 86

Drug dependence
, 136, 224

treatment
, 136

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
, 255

Drug policy
, 102, 117, 218n1, 234–235

civil society engagement
, 22–27

CSTF
, 32–34

momentum for reform
, 34–36

protagonism in Bolivia
, 192–199

protagonism in Uruguay
, 199–207

Russian Drug Laws and enforcement as drivers of multiple epidemics
, 134–141

in Russian Federation
, 134–135

Russian position at international level
, 141–145

UNGASS (2016)
, 27–31, 36–41

way forward to 2019 and beyond
, 41–43

Drug Policy Alliance (DPA)
, 30, 250

Drug policy processes
, 160

Drug trafficking
, 108, 135, 268

UN System Task Force on Transnational Organised Crime and
, 29

‘Drug war’ in Bolivia
, 199

Drug-free

ASEAN
, 9, 152, 153

environment
, 10

world
, 4–5, 28

Dutch drug policy (2009)
, 220

Dutch law
, 218

Dutch system
, 221

Eastern Europe Group (EE)
, 142, 142n16

Eastern European and Central Asian countries (EECA)
, 143

Economic and Social Council of United Nations (ECOSOC)
, 22

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
, 270

action plan on drug use in West Africa
, 271–272

Economic crimes
, 135

Economic multilateral forums, strategic use of
, 143–144

Eidgenössische Kommission fur Drogenfragen (EKDF)
, 278

El Guindy’s proposal
, 168

Enforcement-focussed approach
, 138

Epistemic /clinical abyss
, 90–93

Eradicate drugs
, 134

Eradication
, 196n3

Estrategia
, 204n9

EU Drug Strategy
, 218

European ‘common position’ on UNGASS 2016
, 234

European ‘soft defections’
, 238

European Cities on Drug Policy (ECDP)
, 117

European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies (ENCOD)
, 25, 235

European collective subconscious
, 14

European Dimension
, 108–110

European Legal Database on Drugs (ELDD), xvi

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
, 68, 115, 218, 227, 233

European Union (EU)
, 11–12, 142n16, 195, 231–232

European Union and Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)
, 11n6

Ever-increasing civil society engagement
, 26

Evidence-based policy
, 6

Evidence-based process
, 87

Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD)
, 7, 87–89, 117–119

Extrajudicial violence
, 134

Fake Captagon pills
, 170n3

Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN)
, 250–251

Federal Drug Control Service (FDCS)
, 137

Federal drug policy
, 250

Federal Institute for Medicine and Medicinal Products
, 115

Federal Office of Public Health
, 280–281

Federal Tax Police
, 137

Fenetylline
, 173

Firm defence
, 141–142

Florida Amendment
, 2, 256

Framework Decisions
, 233

Frankfurt Resolution
, 117

Funding as soft power
, 144–145

G8
, 143–144

Gambia
, 268

Gender
, 76

Genealogical trait
, 168

General Assembly
, 142–143

General Policy of Islamic Republic
, 177

Geneva Convention
, 168

German drug law
, 115

Giant without compass
, 12–14

Global Civil Society Forum
, 27

Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP)
, 15–16, 34

Global drug policy debates, evaluation of EU contributions to
, 241–243

Global Drug Policy Observatory (GDPO)
, 117

Global financial crisis
, 145

Global order collapse
, 15–16

Global Player
, 141

Global seizures
, 182

Government of Ghana
, 271

Government Regulation
, 226

Great Terror (1936–1938)
, 135

Ground-breaking change
, 223

Guinea-Bissau
, 268

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
, 144, 172, 185

Hard drugs
, 218

Harm reduction
, 3–4, 33, 175–178, 224, 276–277

issue of
, 270

principle of
, 235

services
, 134

Harm Reduction Coalition
, 31

Harmonisation
, 16, 108–109

Harper’s Magazine
, 251

Harrison Act (1914)
, 90

Harrison Narcotics Act
, 250

Hashish
, 105–106, 111, 168, 172–175

Hashishism
, 168

Heads of National Law Enforcement Agencies (HONLEA)
, 68

Health-based approach
, 33

Health-centred approach
, 227

Heretics
, 14

Heroin
, (see also Cannabis), 8, 105, 137n5, 151–152, 171

High Level Ministerial Meeting (2019)
, 96–98

High Level Ministerial Segment (HLMS)
, 102, 272–273

High-CBD cannabis oil
, 257

High-Level Ministerial Segment
, 260

HIV/AIDS
, 24, 26, 31, 92, 138, 142, 145, 172, 177, 182, 222, 277, 283

Hollow Slogan
, 152

Horizontal Drugs Group (HDG)
, 233

Human rights
, 4–5, 33, 50, 75–76, 155

violations driving further divergences in ASEAN
, 157–159

Human Rights Council (HRC)
, 94

Illegal psychoactive substances
, 250

Illicit drugs
, 176

Iran’s umbrella agency for
, 178

‘Immaculate conception’ of cannabis
, 106

Impact Analysis Project of New Drugs Legislation (PAD)
, 225

Imprisonment epidemic
, 140–141

Independent Expert Review Group (IERG), xviii

Informal Interactive Stakeholder Consultation (IISC)
, 33–34

Innovative harm-reduction measures
, 117

Instituto de Regulación y Control del Cannabis (IRCCA)
, 200

Inter se modification
, 122–124, 253

Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD)
, 68

Internal Security Forces (ISF)
, 180

International anti-substitution therapy
, 144

International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
, 88–89

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
, 51

International Criminal Police Organisation
, 22

International drug control
, (see also Drug control)

conventions
, 134, 142

law on growth of death penalty
, 52–54

order
, 6

policies
, 142

regime
, 57–58

International drug policy
, (see also Drug policy), 2, 102

International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
, 23, 31

International Federation of Women Lawyers
, 22

International law
, 102, 109, 119, 121

death penalty for drug offences in
, 50–52

International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)
, 2, 23, 50, 77, 110, 123n9, 137, 137n6, 195

Annual Report
, 202, 276

International Organisation of Good Templars (IOGT)
, 10

International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP), xvii

Internationally controlled essential medicines in post-UNGASS

legal and institutional framework governing access to
, 87–90

narrative and political framework
, 90–96

UNGASS 2016, SDGs, WHO 13th programme of work
, 96–98

Intersectoral multidimensional strategies
, 73

Iran
, (see Islamic Republic of Iran)

Iranian Parliament
, 177

Islamic bloc deconstruction
, 167

drug prohibition
, 168–170

Lebanon
, 173–175

from opium to meth
, 171–172

policy and policy developments vis à vis drugs
, 175–183

prevalence and trends in drugs in modern MENA
, 170–175

Islamic Republic of Iran
, 170, 172, 175–178

drugs policy
, 177

harm reduction plan
, 176

umbrella agency for illicit drugs
, 178

Judicial practice
, 226

Junta Nacional de Drogas (JND)
, 204

Kerak
, 172

Ketamine
, 89

Khat
, 171n4

Latin America as radical reformers
, 10–11

Law 1008 (1988)
, 193

Law 30/2000
, 222

Lebanon
, 170

Hashish, ATS and Civil War
, 173–175

Syrian conflict, dysfunctional state and decriminalisation of drug use
, 178–181

Legalisation of drugs in Iran
, 175–178

Legitimate CSO advocacy
, 96

Low-threshold harm reduction interventions
, 277

Maine, cannabis use legalisation in
, 256

Marijuana Policy Project (MPP)
, 257

Marijuana Tax Cash Fund
, 257

Media work and communications
, 36

‘Medical’ cannabis schemes
, 113

Medication
, 281

Member states on key issues
, 38–40

Methadone
, 144

Methamphetamines
, 172, 177

Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
, 168

analysing drugs policy in
, 169

prevalence and trends in drugs
, 170–175

Middle East and North African Harm Reduction Association (MENAHRA)
, 182

Ministry of Home Affairs
, 139

Mobilising for cannabis reform
, 204–206

‘Modalities’ resolution
, 260

Moderate reformers
, 11–12

Mohammad bin Salman (MbS)
, 182

Mohammd bin Nayef (MbN)
, 181

Momentum for reform
, 34–36

Montana, marijuana legalisation in
, 257

Morales administration
, 198–199

‘Morales’ government
, 193

Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS)
, 198

Mujica administration
, 206

Multi-lateral advocacy bridging epistemic abyss
, 93–96

‘Multi-level governance’ model
, 116

Multi-national narcotics control policy
, 91

Naloxone
, 137

Naltrexone
, 138

Narcology
, 136

Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act (1966)
, 251

Narcotics
, 135n1, 170

addiction
, 251

use
, 173

Narcotics Control Act (1956)
, 250–251

National Drug Strategy
, 277

National HIV/AIDS strategy
, 138

National legislation on illicit drugs
, 182

Needle and syringe programmes
, 76

Needle exchange programme (NEP)
, 172

Netherlands
, 217–218

background
, 218–219

broader context
, 221–222

current policy
, 219–221

perception
, 218

separation of markets policy
, 239

Networking
, 25

Nevada, marijuana legalisation in
, 256

New 2009 constitution
, 194

New National Drug Policy
, 277–278

New Psychoactive Substances (NPS)
, 233

New York NGO Committee (NYNGOC)
, 23, 30

Nixon campaign
, 251

Non-compliance
, 119, 121–123, 139, 194

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
, 22, 78, 137, 177

Non-traditional drug policy indicators
, 70–71

North Dakota measure
, 256

‘North-South’ cooperation
, 3

Obama administration
, 240

Observatoire Français des Drogues et des Toxicomanies (OFDT), xix

Office of Drug Administration
, 255

Office of High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR)
, 35, 39, 75–76

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
, 259

Opiate substitution therapy (OST)
, 8, 76, 137, 172

Opioid substitution therapy
, (see Opiate substitution therapy (OST))

Opium
, (see also Cannabis), 112, 171

tincture
, 177

trafficking
, 135n1

Opium Act (1976)
, 109, 142, 218–219

Opium Act Directive
, 221

Organisation of American States (OAS)
, 29

Outcome Document
, 3

additional UNGASS-related data collection
, 76–77

gender
, 76

human rights
, 75–76

scope new thematic areas
, 77

synergies with
, 74

Pahlavi monarchy
, 171

Palliative care
, 97

and cannabis
, 6–8

providers
, 95

Panglossian stagnation, EU in

champions of change
, 234–237

defenders of status quo
, 237–241

driving to ‘speaking with one voice’
, 232–234

evaluation of EU contributions to global drug policy debates
, 241–243

Parliamentary initiative
, 280n3

Pasta base de cocaina (PBC)
, 206

People living with HIV (PLHIV)
, 182

People who inject drugs (PWID)
, 138

People who use drugs (PWUD), xiv, xv, xviii, xxii
, 12, 15, 25, 32–33, 37, 56, 71, 134, 136–137, 139, 141, 146, 152, 155–156, 158, 160–161, 251, 254, 260–261, 269, 270, 272, 276, 284, 288

Philippines Daily Inquirer
, 236

Plan of Action (2009)
, 254

Polarisation
, 260

Police statistical cards
, 140n13

Policy and policy developments vis à vis drugs
, 175

Islamic Republic of Iran
, 175–178

Lebanon
, 178–181

Saudi Arabia
, 181–183

Policy reforms
, 10

Political framework, narrative and
, 90

cultural and historical roots of epistemic/clinical abyss
, 90–93

multi-lateral advocacy bridging epistemic abyss
, 93–96

Political tensions
, 161–162

Portugal
, 217–218

background
, 222

broader context
, 224–225

drugs policy
, 222–224

legislation
, 224

perception
, 222

Possession of drug for personal use
, 226

Post-United Nations General Assembly Special Session
, 133–134

Pre-UNGASS preparatory process
, 142

Preparatory Board of UNGASS
, 258

President of General Assembly (PGA)
, 33

Principle of subsidiarity
, 233

Prison census
, 140n13

Pro-drug lobby
, 24

Proderechos
, 205

Psychoactive elements
, 173

Psychoactive substances
, 8

Psychotropic substances
, 252

Public health epidemic
, 137–139

Public opinion surveys in Netherlands
, 238–239

Public Prosecutor
, 220

‘Pusher Street’ in Christiania, Copenhagen
, 221

Qat
, (see Khat)

‘Quasi judicial’
, 123

Quibbling over indicators
, 5–6

Radical reformers
, 10–11

‘Radicalism’ in Portugal
, 224

Re-criminalisation of drug possession
, 225

Reform

community
, 28

messages impact in debate
, 38–40

momentum for
, 34–36

policies in United States
, 254–258

reform-minded CSOs
, 31

Reform-orientated civil society
, 38–40

organisations
, 41–42

Regional reponses
, 271–272

Regulación Responsable
, 205

‘Resocialization’ of people
, 139

RusAID
, 144–145

Russian diplomacy
, 134

Russian Drug Laws and enforcement
, 134

emergence of current drug control policies
, 135–137

imprisonment epidemic
, 140–141

injecting drug
, 134–135

public health epidemic
, 137–139

Russian Federation
, 138

drug policy in
, 134–135

firm defence
, 141–142

funding as soft power
, 144–145

Russian position at international level
, 141

strategic use of economic multilateral forums
, 143–144

UN Member State
, 142–143

Sativex®
, 281n4

Saudi Arabia
, 170

Captagon and Boredom in
, 172–173

Crown Prince
, 181–182

princes, foreign workers and status quo
, 181–183

Saudi domestic legislation
, 182

Saudi harm reduction policy
, 182

Scheduling
, 117

decisions
, 118–119

Schengen Agreement (1985)
, 108

Schengen Convention (1990)
, 108

School drug testing
, 139n8

Screening policy
, 182

‘Securitization’ of drug policy
, 135

Self-regulatory non-profit CSC model
, 114

‘Serious crimes’
, 135

Sexual violence
, 134

Sexually-transmitted infections (STIs)
, 145

Shi’ite Resistance Movement Hezbollah
, 180

Shielding cannabis reforms from international criticism
, 201–203

Skoun
, 180

Social control
, 193–195

Social justice
, 257, 261

Social norms
, 173

Social pressure system
, 139

Social rehabilitation
, 139

Socialist Party (PS)
, 114

Soft defection and limits of latitude
, 104–108

Soft drugs
, 218

Soins Infirmiers et Developpement Communautaire (SIDC)
, 174, 180

Soviet Russian Criminal Codes
, 135

Spanish model
, 114

‘Spill-over’
, 14

Spring (2013), early UNGASS preparations in
, 28

Civil Society Engagement in New York and Vienna
, 29–30

early roadblocks, challenges and successes
, 30–31

UN mission and agency engagement at New York headquarters
, 29

UN System Task Force on Transnational Organised Crime and Drug Trafficking
, 29

Stakeholder
, 22n1

StatComm
, 73, 75–77

State Department officials
, 253

State lawmakers
, 257

Status quo

defenders of
, 237–241

illicit drug usage of
, 181–183

prohibition
, 182

Strategy for Coca and Opium Poppy Elimination (SCOPE)
, 25–26, 253

Supervised drug consumption rooms
, 277–278

Support Don’t Punish campaign
, 269

Supreme Court judgements
, 221

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
, 2, 71, 96–98, 282

Swiss narcotics law
, 276, 279

Switzerland’s drug policy
, 276

brief history
, 276–277

New National Drug Policy
, 277–278

shifting cannabis policy
, 278–279

UNODC
, 282–283

unsatisfactory cannabis reform
, 279–282

Syringe-exchange programmes
, 277–278

Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
, 118, 220, 257, 280–281

Tramadol
, 7, 89, 137–138

Transnational civil society organisations
, 86

Transnational Institute (TNI)
, 25, 253

Transnational Radical Party (TRP)
, 25

Treasury Department
, 250

Trump administration
, 255

Tuberculosis
, 8, 138

Turkish counterpart
, 168

UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)
, 2, 22, 66, 88, 102, 118, 142–143, 153, 154n15, 168, 231, 258

UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1988)
, 106–107

UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances (1971)
, 136, 142, 252

UN Conventions
, 11

against Transnational Organised Crime
, 119

UN General Assembly (UNGA)
, 102

UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
, 67–68

UN Secretary General
, 121

UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961)
, 91, 103, 105, 110, 136, 137n6, 142, 152, 196, 251

UN System Task Force on Transnational Organised Crime and Drug Trafficking
, 29

UN-CND Ministerial Segment (2019)
, 160

UNAIDS
, 3, 29, 35, 78

UNGASS (1998)
, (see UN decade against drug abuse)

UNGASS-related data collection
, 76–77

United Nations (UN)
, 66, 191, 250

decade against drug abuse
, 24–26, 254

Drug Control Conventions
, 117, 238

drug control system
, 109

General Assembly
, 253

High Level Ministerial meeting
, 242

HLMS
, 117

Member State
, 142–143

mission and agency engagement at New York headquarters
, 29

multi-lateral agencies
, 92

UN 1961 Convention
, 105, 108, 110, 113, 120n6, 123n9, 252

UN 1971 Convention
, 117–118, 123n9, 252

UN Convention on Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1988)
, 142, 252–253

United Nations Drug Conventions
, 218

United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)
, 88

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
, 29, 35, 195

United Nations Drug Control Program
, 253

United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS)
, 2, 66, 72–74, 93–96, 102–104, 151–152, 168, 231, 253, 269, 287

national and regional dialogues leading to
, 269–271

United Nations General Assembly Special Session 2016 (UNGASS 2016)
, 22–27, 36, 50, 96–98, 120n6, 153–154, 258–260

ASEAN Positions at
, 154–157

gains and lessons learned
, 40–41

highlights and challenges
, 36–37

Outcome Document
, 74, 241, 282

preparations for
, 27–30

impact of reform messages in debate
, 38–40

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
, 3

United Nations Human Rights Committee
, 51, 56

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
, 2, 12, 17, 23, 26, 50, 68, 87, 102, 111, 250, 268, 270, 282–283, 289

United States
, 12–14, 195

ideological expansion
, 251

United States Drug Policy
, 105, 249

historical overview
, 250–254

ignoring reality in 2019
, 260–261

reform policies in
, 254–258

and UNGASS 2016
, 258–260

Universal Declaration on Human Rights
, 238

Uruguay

drug policy protagonism in
, 199–207

drug-related insecurity
, 206–207

implementation and effects of cannabis reform
, 200–201

legally regulating cannabis from seed to smoke
, 200

mobilising for cannabis reform
, 204–206

Pepe Mujica’s personal leadership
, 203–204

rectification
, 122

shielding cannabis reforms from international criticism
, 201–203

Uruguayan Cannabis activism
, 205

Uruguayan system
, 239

US banking regulations
, 201

Vienna

civil society engagement in
, 23–24

monopoly
, 42

Vienna consensus
, (see Dead weight of multilateral consensus)

Vienna Convention on Law of Treaties
, 252–253

Vienna Institutions
, 23

Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC)
, 23

Voluntary drug treatment
, 139

War on drugs
, 7, 10, 12, 14, 36, 40, 43, 53, 56, 251

Washington
, 237

Washington 502 Initiative
, 255

West Africa
, 14

civil society engagement in
, 269

Common Position
, 270

drug states in
, 268–269

high level ministerial segment (2019)
, 272–273

national and regional dialogues leading to UNGASS (2016)
, 269–271

regional responses
, 271–272

UNGASS position
, 269–271

West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI)
, 270

West Africa Commission on Drugs (WACD)
, 268

West Africa Drug Policy Network (WADPN)
, 269–270

West African Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (WENDU)
, 272

“Where Things Stood” (2012–2013)
, 27–28

WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
, 78n5

WikiLeaks cables
, 173

World Customs Organization (WCO)
, 95

World Drug Problem
, 2, 5, 66, 86

ARQ
, 66–69

indicators and outcome document
, 69–71

metrics since UNGASS
, 72–74

synergies with Outcome Document
, 74–77

World Drug Report (2006)
, 69–70, 111, 173

World Health Assembly (WHA)
, 142–143

World Health Organisation (WHO)
, 12, 17, 35, 86–87, 117, 289

13th programme of work
, 96–98

‘Youth Without Drugs’
, 278

Zero-tolerance approach
, 153, 249

Zero-tolerance principle
, 162

Zipp-Aids project
, 277

Zurich

drugs in
, 277

youth centre
, 276