Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies that Work
The upcoming United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs
(UNGASS) in 2016 is an unprecedented opportunity to review and re-direct
national drug control policies and the future of the global drug
control regime....overwhelming evidence points to not just the failure of the regime to
attain its stated goals but also the horrific unintended consequences of
punitive and prohibitionist laws and policies.
A new and improved global drug control regime is needed that better
protects the health and safety of individuals and communities around the
world. Harsh measures grounded in repressive ideologies must be
replaced by more humane and effective policies shaped by scientific
evidence, public health principles and human rights standards. This is
the only way to simultaneously reduce drug-related death, disease and
suffering and the violence, crime, corruption and illicit markets
associated with ineffective prohibitionist policies. The fiscal
implications of the policies we advocate, it must be stressed, pale in
comparison to the direct costs and indirect consequences generated by
the current regime.
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