Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch is the director of the Global Drug Policy Program at the Open Society Foundations.
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Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
Commentaries by Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
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The End of Marijuana Prohibition
LONDON – In the coming days and weeks, critics will try to minimize what voters in the US states of Colorado and Washington accomplished by …
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Central Europe’s Misguided War on Drugs
WARSAW – It was two decades ago this summer that communist rule began to implode from Tallinn in the Baltic to Tirana in the Adriatic, usher…
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The Fatal Myth of a Drug-Free World
VIENNA – Negotiations at the United Nations High Level Summit on drugs in Vienna last week fell flat. Although 25 countries officially state…
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The Anti-Drug God that Failed
Russians and Ukrainians are once again being made victims of a utopian dream. Since the end of communism in 1991, these countries (and other…
The End of Marijuana Prohibition
Boris Krumov: I can haz weeeeed :D
The End of Marijuana Prohibition
Paul Jefferson: Whether or not marijuana is harmful, prohibition has proven futile -- much as the prohibition of alcohol proved futile in the 1920s. In fact, prohibition has caused more harm than the drug itself -- i…