Kenzi RIBOULET-ZEMOULI

Barcelona-based independent researcher.

Head of the ‘Drug Policies & Human Rights’ Program at Knowmad Institut.

Co-founder of the non-profit NORML France, and the think-tank FAAAT.

Human rights-components, ethics, and sustainability of legally-regulated settings related to the use, marketing, and production of controlled plants/products/substances.

Upgrading public action on psychoactive substances:

Resilient policies. Sustainable planet.

Born in France, raised around the Mediterranean and now based in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), Kenzi is a French-Algerian multidisciplinary researcher and advocate for sustainable drug policy reforms.

Focused on Action research (the match of scholars and citizens) as a catalyzer for legal and social changes, Kenzi has been particularly involved in studying alternative pathways for Cannabis policy reform, linking international law with local grassroot initiatives. He anchors his work on the ethics, human rights aspects, fair trade components, and criteria of sustainability of legally-regulated use, production and marketing of controlled plants, products or substances.

Kenzi is heading the Drug Policies & Human Rights program of the European Institute for Multidisciplinary Studies on Human Rights and Science (Knowmad Institut). www.knowmadinstitut.org

“Drugs don’t deserve drug policy. What drugs need to be controlled are sensible healthcare, poverty, social, educational, geopolitical, security and development policies that integrate drug-related factors. Not sui generis drug policies.”

TEXTS

Cannabis & Sustainable Development

Mar 15, 2019 | Report

Paving the way for the next decade in Cannabis and hemp policies.

Alignement des politiques mondiales en matière de drogues avec les objectifs de développement durable de l’agenda 2030

Mar 13, 2019 | Report

(Collectif) Recommandation de la plateforme interassociative française sur les drogues.

The Crimson Digest, Volume 2

Mar 12, 2019 | Report

Analysis of the 40th and 41st WHO ECDD reviews outcomes and the INCB’s update on Cannabis.

The Crimson Digest, Volume 1

Nov 12, 2018 | Report

Briefing on the international scientific assessment of cannabis: Processes, stakeholders and history.

ECDD40 Procedural, methodological and terminological bias.

May 31, 2018 | Report

Joint civil society contribution to the 40th meeting of the World Health Organization's Expert Committee on Drug Dependence

Application du Droit à un Recours et à Réparation des Victimes de violations flagrantes du droit international des Droits Humains pour les personnes concernées par la Prohibition

May 2, 2018 | Statement

58 ans de violations générales et systématique des Droits Humains au nom du « contrôle des drogues ». Traduction de la Contribution au rapport du Haut Commissaire aux Droits Humains des Nations Unites, en application de la resolution CDH 37/42.

Application of the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of gross violations of International Human Rights Law in the case of people affected by Prohibition

May 2, 2018 | Statement

58 years of global & systematic Human Rights violations in the name of drug control. Re-edition of the Contribution to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights's report pursuant to resolution HRC 37/42.