Since laws were passed in Romania in 2010 and 2011, prohibiting the trade in previously legal highs and any other commercial products with psychoactive effects, the sale and use of these substances has gone down significantly. Nevertheless, amphetamine-like stimulants and other previously legal highs are still readily available, via a number of different routes, to users who are in the know.
New Psychoactive Substances
Coffee Shops and Compromise: The Success of the Dutch Model
In 1976, the Netherlands separated the cannabis market from the market in other illicit drugs, and allowed coffee shops to sell small amounts of cannabis to adults in a controlled environment. Our new movie, supplementing the report of the Open Society Foundation, tells the story of the Dutch model and highlights its successes, as well as the challenges ahead of it.
Mandatory School Drug Testing Proposal Rejected in Hungary
A government politician's proposal for mandatory drug testing of teenagers has been rejected due to criticism.
DR. ZEE – THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED MEPHEDRONE
Watch our video interview with the man who discovered Mephedrone, the drug also known as Meow-Meow!
Infographic: Romania’s second plague – Tuberculosis
Check out our new infographic on Romania, where the poor health services provided for injecting drug users lead to increased shared needle use driven by new psychoactive substances. All of this has caused a surge in new HIV cases, and the revival of tuberculosis among people who use drugs.
Speech of Grant Hall in Budapest on the Legal Highs Regulation of New Zealand
Grant Hall, director of Star Trust held a presentation at the HCLU – Drugreporter film event in Budapest on 12.05.2014 in Budapest.
A FOOT IN THE DOOR: A New Approach to Drugs in New Zealand
There is a growing debate on how to control new psychoactive substances (legal highs) in New Zealand. We traveled there to give you an insight into the innovative policy introduced by the government last year – please watch & share our new movie!
PATHWAY TO REFORM – The Conference Videos
New Zealand became a world leader in the development of innovative regulation of new Psychoactive Substances laws in July, 2013. On March 20th, 2014 hosted by The Star Trust, the ‘Pathway for Reform’ conference offered a unique opportunity to hear firsthand how this industry began, how it was regulated and why. You can watch all the full speeches now!
Read the 2012 and 2013 HCLU Film Catalogues
In 2012, the HCLU produced 154 movies, of which 76 are foreign-language, and 78 are in Hungarian. In 2013, we produced 64 movies – 16 in Hungarian and 48 in other languages. During those two years, we won five prizes and held five training courses in video advocacy. Browse these two catalogues and open the videos by clicking on the links.
Legal Dreams and Folk Tales: The New Psychoactive Substances in Urban Drug Folklores
In Romania, the urban legends that ‘legal highs’ have inspired, speak of the traumas and hardships faced by injecting drug users.