niedziela, 11 września 2016

Medical Marijuana

I would like to address you with an important question. Shall we include Medical Marijuana issue inside of the text of our Convention?

We have there variety of Harm Reduction programs. Programs that in some cases would be impossible from effectively implement without decriminalization/depenelisation of possession for personal use.

But shall we also address painful issue of medical marijuana? Shall we guarantee rights to this unconventional medicine for patients that are lacking it desperately? Is not medical marijuana another form of reducing harms? Reducing pains?

There are no many occasions to amendment international laws and maybe in this one we are creating is a right also to take care of marijuana patients?

If so, in what form we shall express our support? How the medical marijuana point shall be encoded in our Convention? Please think little bit on this issue and make your proposal before November 2016.

We are waiting for your comments. Please distribute this letter widely to all interested parties.

sobota, 10 września 2016

Send Postcard

Harm Reduction Charter has just opened its own... Postal Center. Thanks it you can now send a postcard to any of your friends, public persons, MEP's or organizations inviting them to sign the Harm Reduction petition...

Thanks to Send Postcard action you can inform others of our project and at same time support it financially by little donation. Do not wait. Send your postcard now!

środa, 17 sierpnia 2016

środa, 10 sierpnia 2016

Invitation to public consultations


More than 55 years have passed since UN have adopted the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and almost three decades since its last update. Since then, many things have changed. Illicit drugs, instead of disappearing, have become a wide and mass experience. Unfortunately, it resulted in many casualties because of many reasons, like Hepatitis C and AIDS, that has taken its deadly harvest.

From that moment mankind has developed new ways of handling the drug issues. Harm Reduction has started just as a brave idea, but now has become a leading ideology in the Western world. Still though, even in the European Union, some of the Member States from Central and Eastern Europe are denying its effectiveness in tackling harms made by consumption of narcotic drugs.

For that reason, we in Europe and beyond, need a single act - a set of obligations for international community- that would unite the continent and the whole world so that the Harm Reduction would become a standard. Many, not only in Asia or Africa, are still denied access to basic Harm Reduction services like needle exchange or methadone therapy.

On the other hand, more progressive countries are introducing Harm Reduction measures such as drug consumption rooms or even heroine distribution. Activities, that in the light of UN Drug Convention, are somehow in the 'gray zone'.

There is also an issue of cannabis. Relative harmless drug for possession of which users are still punished, sometimes even in the prison terms.

And that is why we are coming with the idea of the Harm Reduction Convention, that would be at the beginning introduced by the Council of Europe and the European Union to later become the fourth Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

We are just on the beginning of long road towards this goal and we need Your help in that. As the very first step of our action, we have started public consultations on the draft of the core text of the Harm Reduction Convention. We believe that a lot of you have a lot of knowledge and experience in Harm Reduction and Drug Policy and therefore we are asking you to join us in this fight for the greater good.

Please, read the original text of our proposal, discuss it among your members and send us your comments, corrections and proposals at the address: consultations@hrconvention.org.

We ask you to help us and if you for some reasons do not want or cannot join our team, we understand, but would be thankful for distributing this letter to your acquaintances and friendly organizations.

You can find more on the project here: http://hrconvention.org/

Best Regards,
HR Convention team

poniedziałek, 8 sierpnia 2016

Wanted: Graphic Designer


The newly born Harm Reduction Convention project is looking for a talented graphic designers that would like to take care about visual side of it.

Our project aims at creating a new Convention on Narcotic Drugs that would guarantee all drug users and addicts equal access to Harm Reduction measures, as well that they will be no longer punished for possession of their favorite substances for personal use.

We cannot yet offer you a salary but we offer you our respect and prominent place among our members.

If you think you are right person for this task please contact us at info@hrconvention.org. If you know somebody that would be interested please tell him about this opportunity.

You can read more on our project here: http://hrconvention.org/


niedziela, 7 sierpnia 2016

Newsletter

If You are not yet ready to join the Harm Reduction Convention team but want to stay informed on the news of it development You can now subscribe to our Newsletter.

poniedziałek, 1 sierpnia 2016

Official Website

After months of silence we are coming out with great news. The Harm Reduction Convention have its own website. We have also extended a time for which we are waiting for Yours comments, amendments and proposals regarding text of the convention.

Please visit our site. Read the text and send your comments. If you think that you can help us even more, please join us and do not forget to share this great news with all of your friends.

Visit official page: http://hrconvention.org