The Drug Policy Website of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union

Regulation and Control

Queen of the ‘Legal Highs’

Mephedrone has proved to be the most successful of the recent wave of novel psychoactive drugs to have appeared on the European recreational market. The only ‘legal high’ to have managed to enter users’ repertoires even after being banned in most countries, it also raised the question of how ‘phantom’ narcotics are to be dealt with.

Evo Morales at the CND in 2013

Watch the full speech of Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, march 2013. Now with English and Spanish subtitles.

Drugs and Development: Punishing the Poor

Our video report from the panel discussion "Drugs and Development: Punishing the Poor"

A Mysterious Disease Takes Its Toll Among Politicians

The former Polish president is the latest victim of the Post-Retirement Drug Policy Enlightenment Syndrome - and the first registered case in Eastern-Europe

Generic Ban on Legal Highs Is Introduced in Hungary

The government declares a great victory in war on drugs, NGOs say criminalization is not the solution 

Is banning legal highs effective? Learning from the Hungarian experience

It seems we need more than supply reduction and law enforcement to stop the flow of cheap research chemicals from China and India - an HCLU report on legal highs in Hungary

Legal Regulation of Cannabis in Copenhagen

The City Council of Copenhagen voted for legalizing marijuana. Watch the new movie of the HCLU and find out why!

To The Next Level: Marijuana Regulation in the US

Welcome to the future of US marijuana regulation - please watch and share HCLU's new movie!

A Cop Says Legalize Drugs - in Central-Europe

Jack Cole, a former anti-narcotics policeman and a founding member of LEAP visited Central-Europe

Paving the Way

The legal regulation of marijuana is not sci-fi any more: the potential models of legalization are here. Watch HCLU's new video on harborside, an outstanding medical marijuana center in Oakland, California.

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