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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Apr
Chair Dreifuss in Globe and Mail: “Ottawa should decriminalize all drugs – it’s effective policy”
Read moreby Ruth Dreifuss, Chair of the Global Commissioner and former President of Switzerland, and Richard Elliott, Executive Director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. Read original
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Apr
Commissioner Jamos-Horta in STAT: “Falsehoods and facts about drugs and the people who use them”
Read moreRead original article in STAT. A new survey of Americans shows that many regard addiction as a behavioral failing, and most would not welcome those suffering from
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18
Apr
Commissioners Banda, Cattaui, Clark and Dreifuss in El Espectador: “Revelan impacto discriminatorio de políticas represivas de drogas en mujeres y sus familias”
Read morePara Joyce Banda, ex presidenta de Malawi; Maria Cattaui, ex secretaria-General de la Cámara Internacional de Comercio; Helen Clark, ex primera ministra de Nueva Zelandia;
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09
Apr
Khalid Tinasti in The Hill: “International drug policy: Is the UN becoming irrelevant?”
Read moreRead Original Article in The Hill When the wave of adult marijuana legalization in some states started in 2013, the position of the federal authorities regarding the
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14
Mar
Sir Richard Branson: “Time to end the pain and suffering”
Read moreby Global Commissioner, Sir Richard Branson, from Virgin blog. As a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, I’ve long advocated for fundamental reform
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26
Feb
Chair Dreifuss in The Hill: “Drugs should not be in the hands of organized crime”
Read moreRead original article in The Hill Drug overdoses are now one of the leading causes of death in the United States and are contributing to decline
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12
Feb
The Global Commission on Drug Policy Honors the Memory of Asma Jahangir
Read more(Geneva, 12 February 2018) The members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy are deeply saddened to learn about the death of their esteemed colleague
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06
Feb
Cannabis : importer le modèle californien dans nos quartiers
Read moreSi l’Etat décidait de légaliser la vente de cannabis, une régulation à la californienne pourrait servir de modèle pour les quartiers sensibles. par Khalid Tinasti,