The present report aims to analyze the most common perceptions and fears, contrast them with available evidence on drugs and the people who use them, and provides recommendations on changes that must be enacted to support reforms toward more effective drug policies.
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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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Aug
Michel Kazatchkine: “Drug Control: Time to Right the Wrong Policies”
Read moreRead original article in Civil.ge The Parliament of Georgia is currently engaged in a promising debate to reform its drug laws, possibly by ending the criminalization of
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26
Jul
Commissioners Clark and Kazatchkine: “Time for a change in drug policy in Belarus”
Read moreThis opinion piece was published in Russian. Read original article in KYKY. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, countries which emerged from it and others nearby, like
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16
Jul
Commissioner Solana: All drug policy roads lead to Vienna in 2019
Read moreRead original article in Der Standard Austria has always had a unique role in international drug policy, being the host and the defender of the multilateral
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13
Jul
The Global Commission on Drug Policy Mourns the Passing of Thorvald Stoltenberg
Read more(Geneva, 13 March 2018) It is with deep sadness that the members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy learned of the death of their
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12
Jul
Commissioners Clegg and Kazatchkine in Science et Avenir: “Lutte contre les drogues : “‘L’approche prohibitive ne protège pas nos enfants’, affirme Nick Clegg”
Read moreWar against drugs: “Repressive drug policies do not protect our children”, says Nick Clegg. Read the original interview in Science et Avenir. Lutte contre les drogues
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09
Jul
Commissioners Dreifuss and Ramos-Horta: “Anti-drug drive” threatens development
Read moreRead original article in The Daily Star One of the most densely populated countries in the world, Bangladesh faces formidable challenges to eradicate poverty and provide
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29
Jun
Khalid Tinasti in L’Economiste, Morocco: “Le développement durable à l’épreuve des marchés illégaux”
Read moreLire l’article original dans L’Economiste. Le Maroc a réussi à développer une des économies émergentes les plus vibrantes d’Afrique. Par conséquent, le pays fait face
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Jun
Michel Kazatchkine: “la politique de répression ne fonctionne pas”
Read moreLire l’article original dans Sciences et Avenir << Pour Michel Kazatchkine, médecin et diplomate, l’argent investi dans une répression policière inefficace devrait être réaffecté à une