Commissioner Bém, Dreifuss and Kazatchkine in BMJ: “Why doctors should support regulated markets in illicit drugs”

Read original article in BMJ. Drug policy affects health. Legalisation is needed not because drugs are safe but because they are risky, write members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, Michel Kazatchkine, Pavel Bém, and Ruth Dreifuss Doctors are well aware of the health risks associated with different illicit drugs. What

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Reuters – Regulate: ex-world leaders’ solution to ‘failed’ drug war

Read original article on Reuters. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – More governments should turn away from a repressive war on drugs that has “failed” and look to proven strategies to implement regulated markets for risky substances, a group of former presidents and leaders said in a report published Monday. Since the

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CNN Spanish covers Commissioner Zedillo on presentation of 2018 report on Regulation

Expresidente de México: Prohibiciones de drogas han sido un fracaso El expresidente de México Ernesto Zedillo reconoció que durante su mandato siguió una política equivocada en el tema de las drogas. Esto lo dijo durante la presentación del informe sobre la regulación de narcóticos que realizó la Comisión Global sobre Políticas de

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George Shultz in NYT: “The Failed War on Drugs”

By GEORGE P. SHULTZ and PEDRO ASPE The war on drugs in the United States has been a failure that has ruined lives, filled prisons and cost a fortune. It started during the Nixon administration with the idea that, because drugs are bad for people, they should be difficult to obtain. As a

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Comissionado Michel Kazatchkine en La Reforma: “Urgen a regular el uso de drogas”

En México son urgentes reformas para regular el uso de drogas como la mariguana y despenalizar su consumo, estimó Michel Kazatchkine, miembro de la Comisión Global de Políticas de Droga. Leer artículo completo en El Manana/La Reforma

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