Dear Friend, Colleague, Supporter and Associate. As the publisher of Medialternatives, you will no doubt have been following my postings. You may also know me as an anti-apartheid activist and journalist — I happen to have worked for several banned publications during the freedom struggle, includ...

Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use. Harm Reduction is also a movement for social justice built on a belief in, and respect for, the rights of people who use drugs. Harm reduction incorporates a spectrum of str...

Dear Die Antwoord, The recent letter from the Dagga Party and BDS refers. There was a time when the solidarity campaign with Palestine tolerated secular Jews such as myself, who do not ascribe affiliation to any particular branch of Judaism as such. Over the years, as the campaign has grown, we h...

WHILE people were asleep, entertaining themselves, possibly with recreational substances, or discussing amendments to the National Drug Master Plan, which could deschedule marijuana, (in effect remove cannabis from the arena of drug prohibition and criminal justice, into the realm of harm reducti...

This is a guest post by Jane Duncan who is a member the Right 2 Know Campaign, a South African campaigns group that is a member of the Privacy International Network. On 23rd March the United Nations Human Rights Committee released its assessment on South Africa’s compliance with the International...

IT'S BEEN 15 years since I started advocating harm reduction. In the face of strong opposition, South Africa's Deputy Minister of Social Development, Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu has made one of the most progressive statements heard on drug policy, at the plenary session of the '59th Commission on Na...