The right way to do drugs: Legalising cannabis safely

The world this week

Leaders

Regulating cannabis

The right way to do drugs

The argument for the legalisation of cannabis has been won. Now for the difficult bit

Hong Kong

Wounded society

Violent unrest in Hong Kong suggests a need for political cures

European banks

Borrowed time

It has been a traumatic week for European banks. Their problems run deepest in Italy

Travel in Africa

Let Africans fly

Air travel in Africa is needlessly hard and costly. Open skies would make it cheaper

The Mekong river

Damned if you do

Governments should stop building dams on the mother of rivers

Letters

Arab investment, electricity, restrooms, batteries, citizenship, gas, dedicated subscriber, punk, collaboration

Letters to the editor

Briefing

Legalising cannabis

Reeferegulatory challenge

A growing number of countries are deciding to ditch prohibition. What comes next?

Essay

Europe

Corruption in Ukraine

Dear friends

Spanish politics

Back to the bullring

Germany and refugees

Is the welcome culture legal?

Russians in London

Government in exile

Charlemagne

Special privileges

Britain

Britain’s tax code

Spaghetti junction

Intelligence oversight

Snoopers scolded

The energy business

Switched off

Problem-solving courts

Smart justice

Middle East & Africa

Aviation in Africa

Departure delayed

Saving Africa’s rhinos

Pooches v poachers

The veil in west Africa

Banning the burqa

The Mosul dam

A watery time-bomb

United States

New Hampshire and beyond

Trumped and Berned

Bernie Sanders’ economic policy

A vote for what?

Trump’s German roots

Kallstadt’s king

The campaigns

Heard on the trail

Libertarians

Live free, or try

Climate change

Supreme emissions

The defence budget

Mr Carter places his bets

Lobsters

Shell shock

Lexington

Rush-ing around

The Americas

Economic data in Argentina

An Augean stable

How the White House race looks from Cuba

The Havana primaries

Latin American currencies

Border bazaar

Asia

China, North Korea and America

Between Punxsutawney and Pyongyang

Tasmania charts a new course

Water into wine

Tasmania’s forests

Saving the swift parrot

China

Hong Kong-mainland relations

Over troubled water

The fire-monkey stirs

Street violence and politics

International

More fish to fry

Marine conservation

Rejuvenating reefs

Corals in the South China Sea

A thousand cuts

Business

Railways in America

Doing the locomotion

France’s almighty bosses

In praise of the splits

Corporate governance in Japan

Sharp elbows

Indian business

Crossing the desert

Turkish wine producers

Sour grapes

Drone-racing

Whizz kids

Finance & economics

Falling bank shares

A tempest of fear

Deutsche Bank’s unappetising cocos

Discomforting brew

Lesbians’ wage premium

Girl power

Sri Lanka’s economy

Taxing times

Free exchange

Optimising romance

Science & technology

Neanderthals and human disease

A Parthian shot

Bacterial vision

Go towards the light

Livers, bacteria and alcohol

Bugs in the system

Culture

Infectious diseases

Passing through

Marcel Proust as graphic novel

A second bite of the madeleine

The art of the confidence game

Fool me once

Life in the ocean

50 shades of grey whales

The Holocaust in France

Dear father

Obituary

Obituary: Marvin Minsky

Mind and machine