10 thematic workbooks describing the national situation on drugs in France in 2023.
An overview of the criminal justice responses to offences related to driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs since the 1990s.
Based on a research work coordinated by the OFDT, this issue of Tendances shows that cannabis regulation raised both traditional drug policy implementation challenges and unique challenges.
Based on a research work coordinated by the OFDT, this issue of Tendances describes the structure and methods of cannabis regulation from a public health perspective, comparing six jurisdictions in the United States (Washington State, Oregon, California) and Canada (British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec).
How does the OFDT conduct surveys with its European partners?
In recent years (2016-2020), an average of 180 000 people have been arrested every year by law enforcement services (police and gendarmerie) for a drug law offence in France.
This report summarizes eight years of policy and public health knowledge since Colorado and Washington became the first states in the U.S. – and the first jurisdictions in the world – to begin to develop and implement policies around a commercial marketplace for marijuana.
This report analyzes the regulation of cannabis in Canada, as well as the political, economic and social impact of the policies adopted.
Based mainly on data published by the WHO, this note aims to provide an overview of the main legislative and regulatory measures taken by the different EU countries to reduce harmful alcohol consumption.
The international landscape is becoming more complex and polarised on legislative drug issues, as the last Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) has shown.
This briefing paper describes the regulatory models that have been implemented since 2014 in the American states that have legalised cannabis, highlighting their differences and similarities. It also discusses the reform processes and common features of states that have legalised cannabis for medical and recreational use.
This summary covers the main contributions from a collective OFDT publication entitled "Drogues et addictions, données essentielles" issued in April 2019.
Following Uruguay in 2013, Canada is the second country in the world - the first in G7 - that has officially legalised the production, distribution and possession of cannabis for recreational use.
Although cannabis is still prohibited at federal level, 8 American states and the District of Columbia have made unprecedented changes to their cannabis regulations with the legalisation of cultivation, sale, possession and use of cannabis for non-medical (i.e. recreational) purposes from the age of 21.
This briefing is structured in three parts. It first presents the international legislative framework established by the United Nations and the European Union and laid down in three treaties: the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (amended by the 1972 protocol), the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and…
The laws governing cannabis use, tolerated in some countries yet totally banned in others, vary significantly from one European Union country to another.
Since 2007, OFDT has been publishing Drugs, Key Data, an overall perspective digest with the most recent and detailed facts and figures.
This issue of Tendances examines law enforcement on driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs, reviewing the most recent trends in road traffic controls and driving under the influence enforcement, as well as the criminal justice system response to these specific alcohol and drug issues.
The Hospital, Patients, Health and Territories law of July 21, 2009 (the so-called "HPST law") established a ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products to all minors.
The purpose of this publication is to periodically collect the most recent and most relevant key quantitative indicators of drug use, whether illegal substances, tobacco, alcohol or psychotropic medicines.