UN human rights expert Ben Saul calls for drug legalization and rejects militarized "narco-terrorism" policies, warning that US killings at sea could amount to crimes against humanity.

The program for the Harm Reduction International Conference 2025 (HR25) is out!

Across the world, many countries have imposed draconian legal sanctions, and sometimes illegal sanctions, in response to real or alleged drug law violations. "Shared Mistakes" will focus on the issues of mass incarceration, the death penalty, and extrajudicial killings, with speakers from Malaysia, the Philippines and United States discussing the policies and achieved or hoped-for reforms.

Trump has again called for executing low-level drug law violators. We're worried there could be more beyond that.

Soaring criminality in the Trump White house has brought our nation to the brink of a constitutional crisis. But we see reasons for hope. And drug policy reform continues.