Drug prohibition: the end of the road
13 August 2014
"Alternative answers give results"
After 40 years of war on drugs, the conclusion is clear: all around the world, traffickers hunting and harsh law enforcement against drug users have been a fail. It is time to address new answers: eliminating prohibition, legalising cannabis, and even hard drugs like in Portugal? Changes are underway.
Uruguay, Spain, but also in the United States, in the states of Colorado and Washington, cannabis has been legalised under certain conditions. And soon in Geneva? A cross-party group is working on the legalisation of cannabis for recreationnal use.
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Topics
- Decriminalisation
- Demand reduction
- Criminal justice
- Community strengthening
- Coca, cocaine & related
- Civil society engagement
- Cannabis & related
- Access to controlled medicines
- Drug dependence treatment
- Drug law reform
- Drug prevention
- Drug related violence
- Harm reduction
- HIV/AIDS
- Human rights
- Prisons & incarceration
- Policing
- Regulated drug markets
- Supply reduction
- Health & harm reduction
- Decriminalisation, legal regulation & reform
- Development & environment
- Violence, policing & punishment
- Human rights and social justice