Voice of Islam Breakfast Radio Show on drug policy

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Voice of Islam Breakfast Radio Show on drug policy

20 June 2016

"The issue about drug policies is that nothing is simple: It's all based on ideology. So we have international drug control conventions and the international drug control regime that is still very much promoting a war on drugs approach. But governments or some parts of governments are now moving forward. The UNGASS that took place in April has shown that there is a division now between countries. Some of them want to have a new approach that is very pragmatic, healthy and human-rights based but you have still quite of few countries that still promote war on drugs approach."

The full interview is available here.

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