The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and 40 years after President Nixon launched the US government’s war on drugs, fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed...

...Our principles and recommendations can be summarized as follows:

End the criminalization, marginalization and stigmatization of people who use drugs but who do no harm to others. Challenge rather than reinforce common misconceptions about drug markets, drug use and drug dependence.

Please take the time to read the attached report, it will proof enlightening.

Enjoy reading it in the forum section of this website: POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS / The War On Drugs / by Alternative Solutions Plus.

It is a great read.