Forum Drugs Mediterranean

{{Short description|Global think tank on drug policy reform}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox organization | name = Forum Drugs Mediterranean | full_name = For Alternative Approaches to Addiction, Think & do tank (FAAAT think & do tank) | logo = 180px|FAAAT Logo | founded = February 2016 | dissolved = | status = Non-profit organization | founders = Farid Ghehiouèche, Kenzi Riboulet Zemouli,<ref>{{Cite news | last=Macronne | first=Emmanuel | title=Entretien avec Kenzi Riboulet, co-fondateur de la FAAAT | newspaper=Soft Secrets France | date=13 November 2018 | url=https://www.softsecrets.com/fr/actualites/international/entretien-avec-kenzi-riboulet-co-fondateur-de-la-f-a-a-a-t/ }}</ref> Michael Krawitz | location = Paris, France<br />Barcelona, Spain | leader_title = President of the board | leader_name = Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli | main_organ = Permanent Committee | origins = Launched by NORMLfr, VMCA & ENCOD | region_served = Worldwide | focus = Reform of drug and substance use-related policies | method = | revenue = | endowment = | num_volunteers = | num_employees = | num_members = | owner = | website =[http://www.faaat.net/ www.faaat.net] | footnotes = }}

'''Forum Drugs Mediterranean''' (up to 2023, known as '''FAAAT think & do tank''': "For Alternative Approaches to Addiction, Think & do tank")<ref>{{Cite web |title=FAAAT {{!}} Ethics in drug policy • FDM (ex-FAAAT) |url=https://faaat.net/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=FDM (ex-FAAAT) |language=en-US}}</ref> is an international non-profit organization working on drug policy, created in 2015 and based in Paris, France.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/associations/detail-annonce/associations_b/20160012/1540 |title= French National Register of Non-profit organizations |access-date=30 July 2017 |publisher= French government's direction de l'information légale et administrative}}</ref>

The organization focuses on research and advocacy related to policy alternatives in the field of addiction, drug use and substance abuse, claiming to foster civil society participation in policymaking at the international level. According to its mission statement, FAAAT supports "Transparent and measurable drug policies framed by fundamental rights, grounded on sustainable development, enforcing empowerment, social justice and health" and "supports the development of a legally controlled market for cannabis."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://faaat.net/|title=FAAAT homepage and presentation|access-date=30 July 2017 |publisher=FAAAT}}</ref> The organization is present at both the local and international levels.<ref>{{cite web|author= Aristos Georgiou | url=https://www.newsweek.com/who-recommends-rescheduling-cannabis-international-law-first-time-history-1324613 |title=WHO RECOMMENDS RESCHEDULING CANNABIS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY | work=Newsweek |date=8 February 2019 | access-date=9 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{ cite web|url=http://faaat.net/tag/un-drug-control-system/ |title=FAAAT UN drug control system posts category |access-date=30 July 2017}}</ref>

== Background ==

FAAAT's vision is that, from the local up to the international level, public policies related to controlled drugs should be transparent and measurable, framed by the Fundamental human rights of citizens, grounded on sustainable development, and that can empower the whole society while enforcing social justice and protecting health. The organization's think-tank researches policy alternatives to the current prohibition of drugs. Its do-tank organizes social engineering, collective action and advocacy for ground-up reformer stakeholders.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

The project started in August 2015, and the organization was legally registered in February 2016 by drug policy reform advocates from the French chapter of NORML, the European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies,<ref>{{Cite news | last=Hurÿsek | first=Lukáš | title=Osobnost Legalizace: Kenzi Riboulet Zemouli | newspaper=Legalizace! | date=1 July 2017 | page=66 | url=http://www.magazin-legalizace.cz/cs/articles/detail/2727-osobnost-legalizace-kenzi-riboulet-zemouli }}</ref> and the US Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access who had been previously operating at United Nations' Commission on Narcotic Drugs meetings.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Perl |first=Abigail Rose |url=https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/1417 |title=The Nonprofit Sector and Cannabis Industry: Creating Cross-Sector Partnerships For A Sustainable and Equitable Future In New Jersey and Beyond |work=Master's Projects and Capstones |date=2022 |publisher=University of San Francisco |series=Master's Projects and Capstones, 1417 |pages=13}}</ref> The organisation collaborates with a network of experts, contributors,<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.icsdp.org/faaatnet | title = FAAAT think & do tank at International Centre for Science in Drug Policy | publisher = ICSDP (International Centre for Science in Drug Policy) }}</ref> professionals and various stakeholders, holds conferences during the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, organizes exhibits,<ref>{{cite web | author= Farid Ghehiouèche | url= http://www.salledeconsommation.fr/legal-regulations-exhibition-dcrs-building-consensus-around-what-works-farid-ghehioueche-faaat-introducing-the-exhibition-on.html | title= Legal Regulations Exhibition on Drug Consumption Rooms, building consensus around what works. | publisher= Global Platform for Drug Consumption Rooms | date= 18 March 2017 | access-date= 16 May 2017 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and other advocacy activities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unodc.org/documents/postungass2016//contributions/NGO/C5_FAAAT.pdf |title= Follow-up process of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem (UNGASS 2016), Statement of the NGO FAAAT to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on operational recommendations of the UNGASS 2016 outcome document |access-date=30 July 2017 |publisher= United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime}}</ref>

==Do-tank: Advocacy programs and actions==

The organization claims two goals are structuring its actions (the so-called ''do-tank''), "take action to ground the updates of international drug policy on sustainable development, human rights, transparency, and inclusiveness" and "strengthen peer groups, social movements and the nonprofit sector to increase knowledge, sustainability, effectiveness, and capacity for collective action on drug-related issues."'{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

[[File:The leadership of FAAAT think & do tank during the closure of the International Cannabis Policy Conference 2018.jpg|thumb|Leadership of FAAAT think and do tank during the closure of the International Cannabis Policy Conference 2018. From left to right: Farid Ghehiouèche, Hanka Gabrielová, Amy Case King, Michael Krawitz and Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli.]]

As such, FAAAT has been essentially active at the multilateral and international level (including at the European Union level<ref>{{cite web|author= European Commission Transparency Register | url=http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultation/displaylobbyist.do?id=554113320836-24 |title= Lobby Register of the NGO FAAAT think & do tank | publisher =European Commission | access-date=31 July 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lobbyfacts |title=FAAAT - For Alternative Approaches to Addiction, Think & do tank {{!}} lobbyfacts |url=https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/faaat---foundation-for-alternative-approaches-to-addiction-think--do-tank?rid=554113320836-24&sid=58656 |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=www.lobbyfacts.eu}}</ref>). FAAAT has also supported local advocacy groups (such as the Catalan Network of People who Use Drugs CATNPUD,<ref>{{cite web|author=Antoniu Llort | url=http://infodroguesreus.blogspot.com/2016/07/27-de-juliol-arsu-catnpud-barcelona.html |title=21 de Juliol Dia de Record i Homenatge a les Víctimes per Drogues. ARSU-CATNPUD a Barcelona | publisher=Servei de Drogodependencies de Reus |date= 22 July 2016 |access-date=8 December 2018}}</ref> the rural cannabis farmers of the Ghomara and Senhaja people of the Moroccan central Riff<ref>{{cite web|author=FAAAT | url=http://faaat.net/do-tank-en/chaouen-2017/ |title=Morocco & cannabis: civil society gets organized to prepare the post-prohibition. | publisher=FAAAT |date= 5 July 2017 |access-date=12 December 2018}}</ref> or the French platform of NGOs for the reform of drug policies<ref>{{Cite news | last=AIDES, FAAAT, Fédération Addictions, Médecins du Monde, NORML France | title=Dix ans de politiques répressives contre la drogue en France et ailleurs : quel bilan ? | newspaper=Politis | date=11 December 2018 | url=https://www.politis.fr/articles/2018/12/dix-ans-de-politiques-repressives-contre-la-drogue-en-france-et-ailleurs-quel-bilan-39730/ }}</ref>). FAAAT also works to foster exchange of data and know-hows between politics, scholars and civil society stakeholders<ref>{{cite web|author= Aurélien Bernard | url=https://www.newsweed.fr/oral-cnam-cannabis |title= Grand oral de l'élection présidentielle au Conservatoire National des Arts & Métiers : les points de vue des candidats sur le cannabis | publisher= NewsWeed |date= 2 March 2017}}</ref> on drug-related policies and field practices.<ref>{{cite web |author= Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) |url= http://lirsa.cnam.fr/medias/fichier/programme-colloque-suisse-5-mai_1494338681748-pdf |title= La Suisse est-elle un modèle ? |publisher= Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Sciences de l'Action (LIRSA), CNAM |date= 5 May 2017 |access-date= 31 July 2017 |archive-date= 31 July 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170731065135/http://lirsa.cnam.fr/medias/fichier/programme-colloque-suisse-5-mai_1494338681748-pdf |url-status= dead }}</ref>

The organization follows-up the work of the United Nations and international organizations (such as the INCB, UNODC or WHO) and regularly addresses international policymakers on drug-related issues, in particular the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs through oral<ref>{{cite web|author=Amy Case King, FAAAT associate | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijLmf_QfH-M |title=Statement delivered to the 6th Intersessional meeting of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, about the "way forward and preparations for the 62nd session of the CND in 2019", Nov. 16th 2017 | website=YouTube |date= 16 November 2017 |access-date=18 December 2018}}</ref> or written statements,<ref>{{cite web|author=Kenzi RIBOULET ZEMOULI, head of research, FAAAT, Spain, and Farid GHEHIOUÈCHE, head of advocacy, FAAAT, France. | url=http://www.unodc.org/documents/postungass2016//contributions/NGO/C5_FAAAT.pdf |title=Statement to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs for its Intersessional Meeting, Vienna, October 27th 2016, on Operational recommendations of the UNGASS 2016 outcome document |publisher=United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime |date= 27 October 2016 |access-date=18 December 2018}}</ref> by showcasing policy models<ref>{{cite web|author=Cannabis Social Club International Proposal Group | url=http://www.unodc.org/ungass2016/en/contributions/ngos/cannabis_social_club_international_proposal_group.html |title=Cannabis Social Club: Policy for the XXIst Century | publisher=United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime | date= 1 January 2016 |access-date=18 December 2018}}</ref> or by organizing fora and symposia (such as the Legal Regulations fora<ref>{{Cite news | last=UNITED NATIONS JOURNAL, Commission on Narcotic Drugs Sixtieth session | title=Legal Regulations Fora: Involving Broad Stakeholders | newspaper=Commission on Narcotic Drugs Sixtieth session, Journal nº3, SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS – WEDNESDAY, 15 March 2017 | date=15 March 2017 | page=3 | url=https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CND/CND_Sessions/CND_60/Journal/Journal_3_e_rev2_clean-1.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | last=UNITED NATIONS JOURNAL, Commission on Narcotic Drugs Sixtieth session | title=Human Rights and Drug Control: Hierarchy of Norms and Flexibility for Member States | newspaper=Commission on Narcotic Drugs Sixtieth session, Journal nº4, SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS – THURSDAY, 16 March 2017 | date=16 March 2017 | page=3 | url=https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CND/CND_Sessions/CND_60/Journal/Journal_3_e_rev2_clean-1.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | last=UNITED NATIONS JOURNAL, Commission on Narcotic Drugs Sixtieth session | title=Legal Regulations Fora: The Urgency to Move Ahead | newspaper=Commission on Narcotic Drugs Sixtieth session, Journal nº4, SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS – THURSDAY, 16 March 2017 | date=16 March 2017 | page=4 | url=https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CND/CND_Sessions/CND_60/Journal/Journal_3_e_rev2_clean-1.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author= Collective |url= http://faaat.net/legal-regulations/#orga |title= Legal Regulations Fora 2017: moving toward a future in which drug policies make consensus |publisher= FAAAT think & do tank |date= 16 January 2017 |access-date= 18 December 2018 |archive-date= 18 December 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181218201813/http://faaat.net/legal-regulations/#orga |url-status= dead }}</ref> or the International Cannabis Policy Conference at the United Nations<ref name="auto">{{Cite news | last=Brittany Somerset | first=Sara | title=Is The United Nations Finally Coming Around About Cannabis? | newspaper=Forbes | date=17 December 2018 | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarabrittanysomerset/2018/12/17/is-the-united-nations-finally-coming-around-about-cannabis }}</ref>).

The organization works closely with the official consultative bodies towards the United Nations: NYNGOC (New-York NGO Committee on Drugs) and VNGOC (Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs). FAAAT is also a founding member of the IMCPC (International Medical Cannabis Patients Coalition) and the Geneva Platform on Human Rights, Health and Psychoactive Substances.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

More broadly, FAAAT holds a blog and informs media and local communities about key policy issues.<ref>{{cite web|author=Kenzi Riboulet Zemouli | url=https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/amid-drug-war-chaos-france-reconsidering-cannabis-policies |title= Amid Drug-War Chaos, France is Reconsidering Its Cannabis Policies |publisher= Leafly News |date= 1 December 2016 |access-date=30 September 2018}}</ref>

===Conferences=== [[File:Logo Legal Regulations Fora 2017.png|thumb|right|Logo of the series of events organized in the United Nations Office at Vienna]]

* '''Introduction to the Cannabis Social Clubs''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://faaat.net/do-tank-en/side-event-cnd2016/|title=Conference « Introduction to Cannabis Social Clubs » at the UN • FAAAT|first=Kenzi Riboulet|last=Zemouli|date=20 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | last=UNITED NATIONS JOURNAL, Commission on Narcotic Drugs Fifty-ninth session | title=Introduction to Cannabis Social Clubs | newspaper=Commission on Narcotic Drugs Fifty-ninth session, Journal nº4, SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS – THURSDAY, 17 March 2016 | date=17 March 2016 | page=4 | url=https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CND/CND_Sessions/CND_59/Journal_4_revised_clean-1.pdf }}</ref> United Nations, Vienna, March 2016 (In collaboration with NORML France, Nonviolent Radical Party, Fundación Renovatio, Regulación Responsable Spain and ICEERS). * '''Legal Regulations Fora''', United Nations, Vienna, March 2017 * "'''''Grand oral de l’élection présidentielle'''''" (Great audition of French presidential candidates) on drug policy, organised with the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers<ref>{{Cite web |last=BERNARD |first=Aurélien |date=2017-03-02 |title=Grand oral de l'élection présidentielle au CNAM : les points de vue sur le cannabis |url=https://www.newsweed.fr/oral-cnam-cannabis/ |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=Newsweed |language=fr-FR}}</ref> * '''Right to Science and Freedom of Research with Scheduled Substances''',<ref>{{Cite news | last=Ginsberg | first=Natalie Lyla | title=The Right to Science and Freedom of Research with Scheduled Substances: MAPS at the United Nations 61st Commission on Narcotic Drugs | newspaper=MAPS Bulletin, Spring 2018: Vol 28, No. 1 Special Edition: Breakthrough | date=1 April 2018 | page=27 | url=https://maps.org/news/bulletin/articles/7270-maps-bulletin-spring-2018-vol-28,-no-1-special-edition-breakthrough }}</ref> United Nations, Vienna, March 2017 (In collaboration with the Government of the Czech Republic, MAPS, Associazione Luca Coscioni, Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access and ICEERS). * '''International Cannabis Policy Conference''',<ref name="auto"/> United Nations and Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, December 2018 (In collaboration with other NGOs). * '''Just Coca forum''', on coca leaf policy (May 2022).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Just Coca {{!}} Solo Coca {{!}} 18–19 May 2022 |url=https://justcoca.org/ |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=Just Coca {{!}} Solo Coca |language=en-US |archive-date=24 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024120520/https://justcoca.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Think-tank: Research on alternative drug policies==

[[File:Hanka Gabrielová presenting FAAAT's "Cannabis & Sustainable Development" during Emerald Cup 2018.jpg|thumb|Hanka Gabrielová presenting FAAAT's Discussion Paper "Cannabis & Sustainable Development" during the Emerald Cup, December 2018]]

Although mainly focusing on international cannabis policy, the research department of FAAAT (so-called ''think-tank'') claims to "impulse a modern approach to the categorification of "drugs": renew terminology, taxonomy & scheduling to review the biochemical paradigm of drug use" and pretends to "shift drug policies towards evidence and effectiveness: enhancing positive drug-related programs and actions from the ground."<ref>{{cite web|author=FAAAT | url=http://www.faaat.net/cannabis#who |title=Our Goals |publisher=FAAAT |date= 27 November 2018 |access-date=12 December 2018}}</ref>

As such, five main axis of research appear: * A follow-up of geopolitical evolutions of international drug control policies and related agreements. During the preparations of the 2016 United Nations General Assembly Special Session dedicated to the world drug phenomenon, Kenzi Riboulet Zemouli, head of research of FAAAT, was the only personality in Spain to endorse the Drug Policy Alliance open letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,<ref>{{cite web |date=14 April 2016 |title=A Public Letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon |url=http://www.drugpolicy.org/ungass2016?region=342&jobcategory=All |access-date=31 July 2017 |publisher=Drug Policy Alliance |archive-date=31 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731202722/http://www.drugpolicy.org/ungass2016?region=342&jobcategory=All |url-status=dead }}</ref> along with the former Director-General of UNESCO Federico Mayor Zaragoza and the former EU High Representative on common foreign and security policies Javier Solana. FAAAT also took part to the civil society mobilisations through different canals to raise awareness<ref>{{cite web|author=French NGO platform on international drug policies | url=https://www.chanvrelibertes.org/cdp8-mauvaise-passe-pour-ungass/ |title= Mauvaise "pass" pour l'UNGASS ? Communiqué de presse de la plateforme française des ONG travaillant sur les politiques internationales en matière de drogues | publisher= Chanvre & Libertés – NORML France |date= 21 April 2016 |access-date=31 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author= |date=14 April 2016 |title=Civil society statement - The UNGASS outcome document: Diplomacy or denialism? |url=http://idpc.net/alerts/2016/03/civil-society-statement-on-the-ungass |publisher=International Drug Policy Consortium}}</ref> around that key UN summit. * An important work of the think-tank has been the research and analysis surrounding the WHO process of scientifically reviewing cannabis for purposes of scheduling under the international drug control Treaties<ref>{{cite web|author=Kenzi Riboulet Zemouli | url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=5768151 |title= La marihuana en la agenda de la OMS – ISSN 9975-4045, CAÑAMO Nº. 229 págs. 28-28 | publisher= Revista Cañamo |date= 1 January 2017 |access-date=31 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author= Kenzi Riboulet Zemouli |url= http://canamo.mx/articulos/la-marihuana-en-la-agenda-de-la-oms/ |title= La marihuana en la agenda de la OMS – Mexico |publisher= Revista Cáñamo Mexico |date= 20 March 2017 |access-date= 31 July 2017 |archive-date= 31 July 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170731065735/http://canamo.mx/articulos/la-marihuana-en-la-agenda-de-la-oms/ |url-status= dead }}</ref> where FAAAT has encouraged the WHO to take action, and fuelled civil society,<ref>{{cite web|author=Alfredo Pascual | url=https://mjbizdaily.com/who-cannabis-recommendation-postponed/ |title=WHO postpones recommendation for rescheduling cannabis at UN summit | work=Marijuana Business Daily |date= 7 December 2018 }}</ref> researchers and physicians<ref>{{cite web|author=Franjo Grotenhermen, MD | url=http://www.cannabis-med.org/english/bulletin/ww_en_db_cannabis_artikel.php?id=546 |title=IACMBulletin of 25 November 2018 | publisher=IACM – International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines |date= 25 November 2018 |access-date=30 November 2018}}</ref> involvement in the process. According to the ''British Medical Journal'', once the definitive results of the WHO reviews of cannabis for international scheduling was made public early 2019, FAAAT considered that the outcome was "positive" and "clearly acknowledges medical applications of cannabis and cannabinoids, reintegrates them into pharmacopoeias, balances harms and [effectively] repeals the WHO position from 1954 according to which ‘there should be efforts towards the abolition of cannabis from all legitimate medical practice.’"<ref>{{cite journal|author=Susan Mayor | url=https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l574.full |title=WHO proposes rescheduling cannabis to allow medical applications – BMJ: first published as 10.1136/bmj.l574 on 5 February 2019. | journal=British Medical Journal |date=5 February 2019 | volume=364 | pages=l574 | access-date=6 February 2019| doi=10.1136/bmj.l574 | pmid=30723076 | s2cid=73449383 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> In December 2020, the efforts of FAAAT team<ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Phillip |date=2020-12-10 |title=In historic vote, the UN no longer considers cannabis one of the most dangerous drugs |url=https://www.salon.com/2020/12/10/in-historic-vote-the-un-no-longer-considers-cannabis-one-of-the-most-dangerous-drugs_partner/ |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref> were successful, with the withdrawal of "cannabis and cannabis resin" from ''Schedule IV'' of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961.<ref>{{cite web|author=Isabella Kwai | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/world/europe/cannabis-united-nations-drug-policy.html |title=U.N. Reclassifies Cannabis as a Less Dangerous Drug | work=The New York Times |date=December 2, 2020 | access-date=December 2, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Riboulet-Zemouli|first1=Kenzi|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354905059|title=History, science, and politics of international cannabis scheduling, 2015–2021.|last2=Krawitz|first2=Michael|last3=Ghehiouèche|first3=Farid|publisher=FAAAT|year=2021|isbn=979-10-97087-50-0|location=Vienna|author-link2=Michael Krawitz}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Robert Hoban | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthoban/2020/12/03/the-united-nations-has-reclassified-cannabis-clearing-path-for-global-industry |title=The United Nations Reclassifies Cannabis Clearing Path For Global Industry | work=Forbes |date=December 3, 2020 | access-date=December 5, 2020}}</ref> * FAAAT considers that drug policies that enforce prohibition violate a series of fundamental human rights. Research is also being undertaken on this topic, and leads to outputs such as the submission of contributions to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.<ref>{{cite web|author=Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli and Farid Ghehiouèche | url=https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/DrugProblem/HRC39/ForAlternativeApproachesFAAAT.pdf |title=Contribution of FAAAT think & do tank for the report of the High Commissioner on Human Rights for the 39th session of the Human Rights Council, pursuant to resolution HRC 37/42. 57 years of Global and Systematic Human Rights violations in the name of "drug control" Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law. | publisher=United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |year= 2018 | access-date=30 November 2018}}</ref> * The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its numerous correlations with cannabis policies and laws, is the latest area explored by FAAAT research department.<ref>{{cite web |author=Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli |url=http://conference.faaat.net/blog/linking-cannabis-policy-to-sdgs |title=Linking cannabis policy to the UN sustainable development goals |year=2018 |access-date=30 November 2018 |archive-date=18 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218193255/http://conference.faaat.net/blog/linking-cannabis-policy-to-sdgs |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Besides international policy, one of the important task of the organization has been to popularize ground-up, peer-based and locally oriented models of legally regulated drug markets, in particular through the promotion of Appellations of Origin<ref>{{cite journal |title=REPORT adopted by the Committee |journal=WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property |date=May 20–24, 2019 |volume=Twenty-Third Session, Geneva |url=https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/mdocs/fr/cdip_23/cdip_23_17.pdf |access-date=27 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Michael Krawitz, on behalf of Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access (VMCA) Mendocino Appellations Project (MAP) International Cannabis Farmers Association (ICFA) For Alternative Approaches for Addiction, Think and do tank (FAAAT) | url=http://faaat.net/wp-content/uploads/ECDD41_contribution_AO.pdf |title=The Importance of Appellations of Origin to the Successful Therapeutic Model of Whole Plant Cannabis, Follow-up on Civil Society Cannabis pre-review input | publisher=FAAAT |date= 15 November 2018 |access-date=18 December 2018}}</ref> to protect traditional farmers knowledge in ''producing'' countries, or the so-called '''cannabis social club''' model for ''consumer'' countries, through the edition of advocacy documents<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unodc.org/ungass2016/en/contributions/ngos/cannabis_social_club_international_proposal_group.html |title= Contribution to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem (UNGASS 2016). Cannabis Social Club international proposal group "A policy for the XXIst Century?" |access-date=30 July 2017 |publisher= United Nations General Assembly secretariat}}</ref> or the organisation of workshops within the United Nations<ref>{{cite web|author= Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty; Regulación Responsable, Chanvre & Libertés-NORML France; Fundación Renovatio; Foundation ICEERS and FAAAT |title= Introduction to Cannabis Social Clubs, in SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS of the COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS, FIFTY-NINTH SESSION, REGULAR SEGMENT (page 4) | publisher= Board of the 59th Commission on Narcotic Drugs |date= 17 March 2016 }}</ref> on the broader modalities of application of such model.

===Publications===

FAAAT is registered as an editor at the French national registry, and showcases its publications on its website.<ref>{{cite web|author=FAAAT | url=http://faaat.net/publications/ |title=FAAAT think & do tank publications portal | publisher=FAAAT |date= 17 March 2016}}</ref> Remarked publications are: * '''Cannabis & Sustainable Development. Paving the way for the next decade in Cannabis and hemp policy.''' ''Recommendations for the implementation of Cannabis policies aligned with international Human Rights standards, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 2016 UNGASS outcome document.'' {{ISBN|979-10-97087-06-7}}. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331998144_CANNABIS_SUSTAINABLE_DEVELOPMENT_Cannabis_Sustainable_Development_Paving_the_way_for_the_next_decade_in_Cannabis_and_hemp_policies Full PDF available online] * '''The Crimson Digest, Volume 1.''' ''Briefing on the international scientific assessment of cannabis: processes, stakeholders and history.'' {{ISBN|979-10-97087-06-7}}. [https://www.scribd.com/document/392694426/The-CRIMSON-DIGEST-Volume-1 PDF available online] * ECDD40 Procedural, methodological and terminological bias. Joint Civil Society '''Contribution to the 40th Meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence'''. ISBN s/n. * '''Cannabis Social Club: Policy for the XXIst century.''' English: {{ISBN|979-10-97087-11-1}}, French: {{ISBN|979-10-97087-12-8}}, Spanish: {{ISBN|979-10-97087-13-5}}.

==Civil society partners==

{{div col}} * Americans for Safe Access (US) * AIDES (France) * Associazione Luca Coscioni for the freedom of scientific research (Italy) * Beckley Foundation (UK) * Cannabis Without Borders (France) * Caribbean Collective for Justice (Jamaica) * Catalan Network of People who Use Drugs (Spain) * CatFAC (Spain) * Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (France) * Drug Policy Alliance (US) * DrugScience (UK) * EIHA (European Industrial Hemp Association) (Belgium) * ENCOD (European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies) (Belgium) * Fédération Addiction<ref>{{cite web | author= Fédération Addiction | url= https://www.federationaddiction.fr/modeles-de-regulations-legales-des-drogues-4-videos-realisees-a-la-commission-des-stupefiants-de-lonu/ | title= Politiques de régulations légales des drogues – 4 vidéos réalisées à la Commission des Stupéfiants de l'ONU | publisher= Fédération Addiction | date= 18 April 2017 | access-date= 5 October 2019 | archive-date= 5 October 2019 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191005183118/https://www.federationaddiction.fr/modeles-de-regulations-legales-des-drogues-4-videos-realisees-a-la-commission-des-stupefiants-de-lonu/ | url-status= dead }}</ref> (France) * Fields of Green for ALL (South Africa) * Fundación Daya (Chile) * Hemp Industries Association (US) * International Drug Policy Consortium (UK) * International Centre for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service (Spain) * Latinoamerica Reforma (Chile) * Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (US) * Médecins du Monde<ref>{{Cite book |last=Médecins du Monde |url=https://www.medecinsdumonde.org/app/uploads/2024/08/ANNUAL_REPORT_MDM_2023.pdf |title=Annual report 2023 |date=2024 |publisher=Médecins du Monde |pages=79 |language=en}}</ref> (France) * Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (US) * New York NGO Committee on Drugs (US) * Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty (Italy) * NORML France (France) * Origins Council (US) * Regulación Responsable (Spain) * SOS Hépatites (France) * Stop The Drug War foundation (US) * Students for Sensible Drug Policy (US) * Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access (US) * Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (Austria) {{div col end}}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{official website|http://www.faaat.net}} * [http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultation/displaylobbyist.do?id=554113320836-24 FAAAT on the European Union transparency register] * [http://www.unodc.org/postungass2016/en/contributions/ngos/faat-think-and-do-tank.html FAAAT on the UNODC post-UNGASS follow-up stakeholders portal]

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