Vienna Declaration: reducing HIV
Embassy – Failed tough-on-crime policies destabilize countries and economies, fuel violence and rates of HIV infection. The Vienna Declaration, the official declaration of the recently completed...
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Council votes to endorse decriminalization of drug use
Toronto City Council voted to endorse the Vienna Declaration on Thursday, raising a loud voice against the war on drugs. “The war against drugs has failed,” said city councillor Kyle Rae, who brought...
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Toronto formally endorses harm reduction on drug use
Toronto has become the first city in the world – and the first government in North America – to formally endorse a declaration that advocates harm reduction over the war on drugs. The Vienna...
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The rising trend against the war on drugs
Toronto this week became the first city in the world to formally endorse the Vienna Declaration that states that war-on-drugs-style prohibitions are a costly failure, denounces the “severe negative...
View ArticleVictoria Council Endorses the Vienna Declaration, Supports Evidence-based...
Former RCMP Chief Superintendent, BC Health Officers Council Also Place Community Health and Safety Above the War on Drugs September 9, 2010 [Victoria, Canada] – Victoria City councillors will vote...
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Victoria supports drug declaration
Victoria is now the second city in Canada, after Toronto, to officially back the Vienna Declaration, which calls for governments to ease up on strict law enforcement and instead develop drug policies...
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CFAX 1070 – The City of Victoria has become only the second city in Canada to endorse the so-called Vienna declaration, condemning the failure of the so-called “war on drugs.” The declaration which...
View ArticleToronto City Council Endorses Vienna Declaration and Calls for...
Canada’s Largest City the World’s First Municipality to Sign Declaration, Support Alternatives to the War on Drugs 26 August 2010 [Toronto, Canada] – Toronto City Council today voted to endorse the...
View ArticleCity of Vancouver supports international declaration calling for new approach...
November 18, 2010 [Vancouver, Canada] – Vancouver City Council today endorsed the Vienna Declaration, a scientific statement highlighting the failure of drug prohibition and calling for evidence-based...
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Vancouver researchers play lead role in HIV fight
More than two decades ago when Dr. Julio Montaner began research on HIV/AIDS, little was known about an epidemic that was believed to be a death sentence. Today, people with the illness and access to...
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