See attached
Taking Control: Pathways to drug policies that work. September 2014. Global Commission on Drug Policy
Chaired by Fernando Henrique Cardoso - Former President of Brazil (1994-2002).
Take a look at the commission members -Kofi Annan, Richard Branson and former presidents/prime ministers of Mexico, Chile, Columbia, Switzerland, Greece, Portugal, Poland etc
The recommendations are:
- Putting health and community safety first requires a fundamental reorientation of policy priorities and resources, from failed punitive enforcement to proven health and social interventions.
- Ensure equitable access to essential medicines, in particular opiate- based medications for pain.
- Stop criminalizing people for drug use and possession – and stop imposing “compulsory treatment” on people whose only offense is drug use or possession.
- Rely on alternatives to incarceration for non-violent, low-level participants in illicit drug markets such as farmers, couriers and others involved in the production, transport and sale of illicit drugs.
- Focus on reducing the power of criminal organizations as well as the violence and insecurity that result from their competition with both one another and the state.
- Allow and encourage diverse experiments in legally regulating markets in currently illicit drugs, beginning with but not limited to cannabis, coca leaf and certain novel psychoactive substances.
- Take advantage of the opportunity presented by the upcoming UNGASS in 2016 to reform the global drug policy regime.
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