Building on past reports, the Global Commission on Drug Policy issues recommendations for more effective and human rights-based drug policies, including: abolish the death penalty, end all penalties - both criminal and civil - for drug consumption and possession for personal use, implement alternatives to punishment for all low-level, non-violent actors in the drug trade, and explore regulatory models for all illicit drugs as the next logical step.
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Anticipating the 2016 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs (UNGASS), the report provides clear-cut pathways for Member States. The five recommendations for more effective drug policies include: putting the health and community safety first, ensuring equitable access to controlled medicines, ending the criminalization of people who use drugs, promoting alternatives to incarceration for low-level participants in illicit drug markets, and encouraging policy innovations such as legally regulated markets.
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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.
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26
Jun
Interview with Commissioner Gaviria: “Die droguenpolitik ist grundverkehrt” (Drug policy is wrong from the ground up)
Read moreA new UNO report shows a dramatic increase in the production and consumption of illicit drugs all over the world. César Gaviria from the Global
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22
Jun
La guerra alla droga è fallita
Read moreA colloquio con l’ex consigliera federale Ruth Dreifuss, oggi presidente della Global Commission on Drug Policy, sulla lotta agli stupefacenti nel mondo e su come
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02
Jun
Legalise cannabis, and do it now, says Nick Clegg
Read moreRead original article in the British Medical Journal In 1926, an American trade unionist, William Roberts, gave evidence on the effects of alcohol prohibition to
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01
Jun
Two steps forward, one step back on drug policy
Read moreRichard Branson: Ending The War on Drugs Read original post on Virgin website You’d think that after nearly five decades of failed policies, trillions wasted
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22
May
Comissionado Michel Kazatchkine en La Reforma: “Urgen a regular el uso de drogas”
Read moreEn México son urgentes reformas para regular el uso de drogas como la mariguana y despenalizar su consumo, estimó Michel Kazatchkine, miembro de la Comisión
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15
May
Why legalize pot, but shy away from addressing opioids?
Read moreOp-Ed by Commissioners Kwasniewski, former President of Poland, and Grover, former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, focusing on cannabis legalization in Canada,
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05
May
Quelques défis à surmonter pour réguler légalement le cannabis
Read moreKhalid Tinasti, Secrétaire exécutif de la Commission globale, explique dans cette tribune comment le Maroc pourrait franchir le pas et légaliser sous condition le cannabis.
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04
May
Southeast Asia seeks new solutions to drug crisis
Read moreSwissinfo interviews Commissioner Ruth Dreifuss on her advocacy visit early April to Southeast Asia, addressing in particular the policy shift in the region towards health-based