U.S.-Led Global War on Drugs a Failure
Submitted on June 2, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011 - Common Dreams
A 19-member international panel has condemned the US-led "War on Drugs" campaign as a failure and has recommended major reforms of the global drug prohibition regime..."Overwhelming evidence from Europe, Canada and Australia now demonstrates the human and social benefits both of treating drug addiction as a health rather than criminal justice problem and of reducing reliance on prohibitionist policies...These policies need to be adopted worldwide, with requisite changes to the international drug control conventions."
