"How and Why Silicon Valley Gets High" - Kara Swisher

Everyone’s hoping a little LSD can lead them to the next billion-dollar idea.

"Filipinos Flee Duterte’s Violent Drug Crackdown" - Aurora Almendral

Every morning before dawn, Rosario Perez checks to make sure her sons are still alive. The three brothers, all in their 20s, sleep at the houses of friends and relatives, moving regularly, hoping that whoever may have been assigned to kill them won’t catch up with them.

"When a President Says, ‘I’ll Kill You’"

"Philippines’ War on Drugs Leaves 1,900 Dead in Less Than Two Months"

Newly elected Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte launched a war on drugs about seven weeks ago. The grim result? More than 1,900 dead and counting.

Portugal na Imprensa estrangeira: "El éxito de Portugal al reinsertar drogadictos, precedente para España" - Aitor Hernandéz-Morales

No es difícil considerar a Lisboa una especie de paraíso a orillas del Atlántico. Sin embargo, entre 1975 y principios de la década de los 2000, en aquel paraíso también había un infierno.

"Legalize It All" - Dan Baum

In 1994, John Ehrlichman, the Watergate co-conspirator, unlocked for me one of the great mysteries of modern American history: How did the United States entangle itself in a policy of drug prohibition that has yielded so much misery and so few good results? Americans have been criminalizing psychoactive substances since San Francisco’s anti-opium law of 1875, but it was Ehrlichman’s boss, Richard Nixon, who declared the first “war on drugs” and set the country on the wildly punitive and counterproductive path it still pursues. I’d tracked Ehrlichman, who had been Nixon’s domestic-policy adviser, to an engineering firm in Atlanta, where he was working on minority recruitment. I barely recognized him. He was much heavier than he’d been at the time of the Watergate scandal two decades earlier, and he wore a mountain-man beard that extended to the middle of his chest.

"¿El comienzo del fin?"

Tras 100 años de prohibicionismo y 40 de guerra contra las drogas, el debate mundial sobre estupefacientes por fin está cambiando.

Para compreender melhor o que se passa no Rio de Janeiro

Operação policial no Rio está fadada ao fracasso, diz autor de "Violência Urbana"

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Portugal's experience shows decriminalization can work"

Descriminalizão da droga - um artigo de Peter McKnight no The Vancouver Sun