All Content: drug policy

WOLA Senior Fellow Coletta Youngers examines the role of civil society in this year's OAS General Assembly.

Adam talks to Sarah Krupp, whose graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley took her to Tumaco, on Colombia's Pacific coast. She discusses the experience of Las Varas, an Afro-Colombian community that sought to abandon coca cultivation.

In this latest report in a WOLA-Brookings series on marijuana legalization, EJ Dionne and William Galston explore shifting public opinion surrounding legal marijuana in the United States.

Is public opinion changing toward marijuana legalization? Drawing from newly-released data, the panelists in this taped WOLA-Brookings event conclude that there has been a durable, significant, and cross-cutting shift toward the support of legal marijuana.

Is public opinion toward marijuana legalization shifting? Join WOLA and Brookings for the unveiling of new polling data and expert analysis.

In this paper, WOLA Senior Associate John Walsh responds to questions regarding the implementation of new laws to legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana— and the key challenges in creating regulatory regimes even as the federal ban remains in place. The paper forms part of a joint WOLA/Brookings series.

In this paper, Youngers identifies where drug policy reform is advancing in Latin America--and where obstacles remain.

The Central American stop on Obama's trip seems intended to showcase positive messages about economic growth and partnership. But Central America has some huge challenges—on dealing with crime and insecurity, and on human rights and democracy—that will inevitably be part of the story.

Last November, two states, Colorado and Washington, voted to legalize and regulate marijuana—a direct challenge to federal policy under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Other states may follow suit. Can confrontation be avoided, or at least minimized? If not, what are the implications?