Progressive Drug Policies in the Czech Republic

A new report of the OSF and a film of the HCLU shows a positive example on how science could contribute to progressive drug policies

The Open Society Foundation published a report on drug policies in the Czech Republic. The report shows how visionary policy-makers "have resisted what is politically easy and exemplified what is smart and humane in drug policy". The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) attended a conference in Prague two years ago and filmed several interviews on the same subject - we published it now as a supplementary material to the OSF report.



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