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.
SEE REPORTIn the news
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20
Jun
Commissioner Branson: “Can drug policy reform come to the UK too?”
Read moreRead original article on Virgin.com Heartened to see UK political leaders from across the political spectrum come to admit that the war on drugs has
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15
Jun
Commissioners Sampaio, Clark and Kwasniewski also in El Espectador: “El proceso de paz está por encima de la política”, dice Comisión Global de Políticas de Drogas
Read moreRead original in El Espectador A propósito de las elecciones del próximo domingo en Colombia, pronunciamiento en carta abierta de este grupo de notables internacionales, encargado,
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15
Jun
Commissioners Sampaio, Clark and Kwasniewski in El Tiempo: “Exmandatarios piden a Colombia seguir con la sustitución de cultivos””
Read moreGlobal Commissioners Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal, Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, and
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13
Jun
Khalid Tinasti on CNN Money Switzerland: “Failing drug policies require new approach”
Read moreExecutive Secretary Khalid Tinasti presents the views and positions of the Global Commission on Drug Policy in an interview with CNN Money Switzerland.
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30
May
Commissioner Clark, Foreword to the 2018 Global Prison Trends report
Read morePRI has launched its annual flagship publication, Global Prison Trends 2018. Here we publish the foreword to the report, written by the Rt Hon Helen Clark,
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14
May
Khalid Tinasti in Southeast Asia Globe: “How Duterte’s war on drugs feeds on his country’s worst fears”
Read morePhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody crackdown on drugs is pushing the country’s most vulnerable people even further towards the margins, says Global Commission on Drugs
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03
May
Ruth Dreifuss in dem Zeit: “Stürzte täglich eine Boeing ab, würden wir doch auch etwas ändern”
Read moreLesen Sie den Originalartikel Jeden Tag 170 Opioid-Tote, ein vollbesetztes Flugzeug: Das sind die USA. Präsident Trump will daher die Todesstrafe für Dealer. Das wird
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01
May
Anand Grover in Jakarta Post: “Development cannot be sustainable without drug policy reform”
Read moreRead original article in Jakarta Post By Anand Grover, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health and Senior Advocate, member of the Global Commission