After Uruguay courageously legalised the use of cannabis under a new drug policy, could Iran be the next country to make it legal? From the outside, the image of Iran as retrograde and inherently conservative hardly fits with the reality of a more dynamic domestic political debate within. But drug policy is one of the areas of debate in which the
Could Iran Become An International Example Of Sound Drug Policy?
Iran already has very progressive harm reduction policies in place including the implementation of nationwide distribution of clean syringes to injecting drug users and methadone substitution treatment both inside and outside prisons.