Commissioner Helen Clark in the Asahi Shimbun: “Alcohol, tobacco more harmful than cannabis”
Commissioner Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, reaches out to the Japanese public in an interview with the Asahi Shimbun on the need to classify drugs according to a scientific assessment of their harms, and to legally regulate drugs.
Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria, interviewed by Portuguese news agency LUSA
Read original article on RTP. A guerra contra a droga baseada na proibição falhou diz Ex-PR Obasanjo (The war on drugs based on prohibition has failed) O presidente da Comissão Oeste Africana sobre Drogas disse hoje que a guerra contra a droga falhou, defendendo uma nova abordagem que separe traficantes
Coverage of our 2019 report in The Economist: “What is the most dangerous drug?”
Link to article in The Economist What is the most dangerous drug? Some drugs classified as highly dangerous are less harmful than alcohol or tobacco WHY IS ALCOHOL legal but many other intoxicants not? That question is the subject of a report published today by the Global Commission on Drug
Commissioners Clark and Lagos in The Independent: “Cannabis and heroin tell a painful story about the world’s irrational approach to drugs”
So often when people think about drugs and those who use them, they conjure up images of “junkies” injecting heroin in the street or young professionals “throwing away” their promising careers because they are “hooked” on cocaine. At the same time, alcohol is seen more as a social lubricant than a substance capable of
