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Intro -- Foreword: From Drug Prohibition to Reform -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editors -- Authors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Drugs and Politics in the Americas: A Laboratory for Analysis -- Prohibition: The Most Successful Failure -- Beyond the Same Old Repression? -- An Invitation to Analysis -- The Americas: A ``Drug Lab´´ for Analysis -- References -- Chapter 2: Prohibition and the War on Drugs in the Americas: An Analytical Approach -- A War Beyond the War -- An Analytical Proposal -- The Moral, Social Practice and Public Health Levels: Racism, Xenophobia and Interventions in Bodies -- The Levels of Public, National and International Security -- Final Words and an Invitation -- References -- Chapter 3: Public Drug Policy and Grey Zone Pacts in Mexico, 1920-1980 -- Drugs During the Porfiriato -- Between Regulation and Prohibition, 1910-1940 -- Revolutionary Regulation: The State Drug Monopoly -- The New Status Quo, 1940-1960 -- The Counterculture and the First War on Drugs, 1960-1980 -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Drug Policy in Guatemala: Constraints and Opportunities -- The Drug Problem in Guatemala -- Towards Reform -- Against Change -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 5: Ecuador: The Evolution of Drug Policies in the Middle of the World -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- Ecuador´s Role in the War on Drugs -- Ecuadorian Penal Politics at the End of the Twentieth Century -- The Fight Against Drug-Trafficking: Distances and Turns in Discourse -- Changes in Penal Politics -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Seeking Alternatives to Repression: Drug Policies and the Rule of Law in Colombia -- Developments in Colombian Drug Policies -- Driving Factors Of Developments and Main Characteristics Of Drug Policies -- Between Wings of Change and Barriers to Deep Reforms -- Conclusion -- References.

This book is a collection of studies of drug policies in several Latin American countries. The chapters analyze the specific histories of drug policies in each country, as well as related phenomena and case studies throughout the region. It presents conceptual reflections on the origins of prohibition and the "War on Drugs," including the topic of human rights and cognitive freedom. Further, the collection reflects on the pioneering role of some Latin American countries in changing paradigms of international drug policy. Each case study provides an analysis of where each state is now in terms of policy reform within the context of its history and current socio-political circumstances. Concurrently, local movements, initiatives, and backlash against the reformist debate within the hemisphere are examined. The recent changes regarding the regulation of marijuana in the United States and their possible impact on Latin America are also addressed. This work is an important, up-to-date and well-researched reference for all who are interested in drug policy from a Latin American perspective

Protection of individual freedom and civil liberties is highly valued in Canada. Yet, as a society, Canadians allow the erosion of these rights in the service of the War on Drugs. Ostensibly, this war is waged in order to protect society at large, and to protect individuals from themselves. However, the harm to society and to individuals resulting from our drug control policies is, in fact, greater than the benefits which drug policy legislators would have us believe are achievable. Through these policies, we are condoning a war of economics, politics, and power, while simultaneously sacrificing our societal and individual rights, rather than supporting a rational effort toward lessening the abuse of drugs.

The 12th volume of International Development Policy explores the relationship between international drug policy and development goals, both current and within a historical per-spective. Contributions address the drugs and development nexus from a range of critical viewpoints, highlighting gaps and contradictions, as well as exploring strategies and oppor-tunities for enhanced linkages between drug control and development programming. Crim-inalisation and coercive law enforcement-based responses in international and national level drug control are shown to undermine peace, security and development objectives. Readership: Academic scholars and researchers, policymakers and development practitioners interested in international development policy, drug policies and their effects on development, global economic and political trends, and local development issues.

"The 12th volume of International Development Policy explores the relationship between international drug policy and development goals, both current and within a historical perspective. Contributions address the drugs and development nexus from a range of critical viewpoints, highlighting gaps and contradictions, as well as exploring strategies and opportunities for enhanced linkages between drug control and development programming. Criminalisation and coercive law enforcement-based responses in international and national level drug control are shown to undermine peace, security and development objectives. Contributors include: Kenza Afsahi, Damon Barrett, David Bewley-Taylor, Daniel Brombacher, Julia Buxton, Mary Chinery-Hesse, John Collins, Joanne Csete, Sarah David, Ann Fordham, Corina Giacomello, Martin Jelsma, Sylvia Kay, Diederik Lohman, David Mansfield, José Ramos-Horta, Tuesday Reitano, Andrew Scheibe, Shaun Shelly, Khalid Tinasti, and Anna Versfeld"--

Existing indicators of drug-related policies and harms – official statistics, treatment data, and so on – are difficult to interpret and to compare across jurisdictions. We propose a conceptual framework including key dimensions of policy and harm. The framework is designed to guide creation of a new dataset in which existing empirical data can be used to assign city-specific scores on policy and harm dimensions. By an interpretive process involving local experts and a coordinating body, we believe that existing data can be evaluated and synthesized to derive these scores. We also propose a cumulative case-study method of querying the dataset to test hypotheses regarding relationships between policies and harms.

There is a growing consensus that acknowledges the failings of the prohibitionist 'war on drugs' model of international drug policy. Concomitant drug policy reform literatures have been characterized by the advocacy of policy pluralism, experimentation, evidence gathering/evaluation and the avoidance of drug fetishization. This paper builds upon these literatures and explores some of the complexities of drug policy pluralization, including challenges associated with drug policy asymmetries and repatriation and the, largely unexplored, potentials of deploying drug policies in combination. It argues that the drug policy reform literature has tended to favour evaluation of policy alternatives over discussion of their geographical deployment under a more plural international policy regime. It considers models to inform the deployment of plural drug policies. Conceptually this paper draws on geographical literatures and attempts to rethink drug markets and drug policy reform in geographically sensitive, regional and relational ways, highlighting scalar and relational challenges to drug policy pluralization. It concludes by outlining an extensive set of research priorities that speak directly to the challenges identified through this geographical lens.