Items tagged with global commission
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| Illegal drug classifications are based on politics not science – report [26.06.2019] | Illegal drugs including cocaine, heroin and cannabis should be reclassified to reflect a scientific assessment of harm, according to a report by the ... |
| Regulate: ex-world leaders' solution to 'failed' drug war [24.09.2018] | More governments should turn away from a repressive war on drugs that has “failed” and look to proven strategies to implement regulated markets for r ... |
| Commission makes recommendations for tackling opioid crisis in North America [03.10.2017] | The Global Commission on Drug Policy has issued recommendations on tackling North America's opioid crisis, calling for the immediate expansion of har ... |
| It's time to decriminalize drugs, commission report says [21.11.2016] | In a report released by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, that includes the former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and former presidents of Colom ... |
| Global Commission slams UNGASS 2016 outcome that strains the credibility of international law [20.04.2016] | At a packed press conference in Manhattan, a formidable panel – including former presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Switzerland, a former chairman of ... |
| Illicit drugs are not the only problem [10.04.2016] | Next week the United Nations is convening the largest gathering on drug policy that the world has seen in two decades. It was the brainchild of three ... |
| Five former presidents demand an end to the war on drugs [23.03.2016] | As the drug war has rumbled on, with little to show for all the money and violence, its critics have become a more diverse. The latest broadside agai ... |
| Three leaders from Latin America call for decriminalizing drug use [11.03.2016] | Outdated drug policies around the world have resulted in soaring drug-related violence, overstretched criminal justice systems, runaway corruption an ... |
| Decriminalizing drugs: When treatment replaces prison [07.12.2015] | Cities all over the US are copying Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program, in which police officers put low-level drug offenders into t ... |
| Ruth Dreifuss: «L’Etat doit se substituer aux dealers» [30.11.2015] | "Je préfère mettre l’accent sur le fait que l’on place ces substances sous le contrôle de l’Etat, en fonction de leur dangerosité. Il existe un spect ... |
| The year in drug policy: Movement at a crossroads [26.12.2014] | The 43-year-old war on drugs had never seen such a barrage of opposition as it did in 2014, with successful marijuana legalization initiatives in sev ... |
| Summary of Drugs & Democracy Activities, July - September 2014 [07.10.2014] | In this issue we proudly want to highlight the fabulous reception our Spanish version of report on cannabis, Auge y caída de la prohibición del canna ... |
| Analysis: Rethinking global drug policy [15.09.2014] | What would the world look like if governments - instead of crime syndicates - controlled drug markets and drug use was decriminalized? A new report b ... |
| Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies that Work [09.09.2014] | The upcoming United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) in 2016 is an unprecedented opportunity to review and re-direct nation ... |
| Former world leaders call for nations to decriminalize drug use and experiment with legalization [09.09.2014] | Drug use should be decriminalized and governments should experiment with drug legalization and regulation, a group of former world leaders argues in ... |
| It's time to transform the global war on drugs [24.04.2012] | At the recent Summit of the Americas, Latin America's leaders pressed Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama to study alternat ... |
| Time for a truce in the war against drugs? [18.03.2012] | Arguing that a drug-free society is unattainable, a commission of global figures – including former Swiss minister Ruth Dreifuss – are promoting a ra ... |
| Stephen Harper repeating same old mistakes with tougher pot laws, global group says [01.03.2012] | The Global Commission on Drug Policy says it’s “very weird” that Canada is taking a tougher line on marijuana when governments across the globe are r ... |
| It’s time to end the failed war on drugs [23.01.2012] | After 50 years of the failed drug war, it is time for today’s leaders to find the courage to speak out. For all the successes I’ve had in business, I ... |
| Counting the Costs of Archaic Drug Policies and Strategies in Southern Africa [27.09.2011] | In June 2011, fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and forty years after former US President Nixon launched ... |
| Former Mexican president urges legalizing drugs [27.07.2011] | Part of the solution to end drug violence in Mexico should include legalizing drugs like marijuana for personal use, according to former President Vi ... |
| "The war against drugs has failed" [20.07.2011] | The report, written by a high-profile panel including former Swiss cabinet minister Ruth Dreifuss, criticises the repressive approach in the US and c ... |
| The Way Forward [30.06.2011] | Since time immemorial, Mexicans have argued that were it not for U.S. demand for illicit substances, Mexico would have a manageable drug problem. Mor ... |
| Breaking the Taboo: A Global Drug War Film [24.06.2011] | "If you can't control drugs in a maximum security prison, then how can you control drugs in a free society?" Those are my words that close Breaking t ... |
| 4 Hopeful Signs in the Fight Against Disastrous Drug War, Including a New Bill to End Federal Pot Prohibition [23.06.2011] | It's been forty years since President Nixon declared a "war on drugs." And we're not winning. In local communities, Black and Latino men are being si ... |
| The Drug War Must End: More Evidence from Thailand [21.06.2011] | Only weeks after the Global Commission on Drug Policy called for the end of the drug war, new video testimony from Thailand reinforces why this is a ... |
| Fear and loathing surrounds decriminalisation [18.06.2011] | "The war on drugs has failed," said a recent report compiled by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which comprised a former UN secretary-general, ... |
| Four Decades Later, It's Time to Scrap the Dead-End Drug War [17.06.2011] | I recently returned from the desert city of Durango, Mexico, where forensic officials are still trying to identify some 240 corpses discovered this y ... |
| Call Off the Global Drug War [16.06.2011] | In an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly importa ... |
| A Real Debate About Drug Policy [11.06.2011] | We believe that drug addiction is harmful to individuals, impairs health and has adverse societal effects. So we want an effective program to deal wi ... |
| The Global Commission: breaking the Vienna Consensus [07.06.2011] | TNI has been closely involved with the Global Commission on Drug Policy which presented its report in New York on June 2. Some years ago we published ... |
| More Calls For A Drug War Cease-Fire [06.06.2011] | Tomorrow marks the 79th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the U.S. prohibition on alcohol. On that day in 1932 John D. Rockefeller Jr., a vo ... |
| The war on drugs war is lost. Now it's time for a rational response [05.06.2011] | The tone of debate in Britain serves only to highlight the immaturity of our public discourse, with too many politicians lost in the fog of this foolh ... |
| The Saturday interview: Richard Branson [04.06.2011] | "I've seen the war on drugs and I've not been impressed," says Richard Branson. "Thousands of people are being killed in Mexico because of the demand ... |
| Global reformers say it's time for change on drugs [04.06.2011] | Forty years after United States President Richard Nixon launched his War on Drugs, a conflict that far eclipses the War on Terror, the struggle to con ... |
| The drug war comes full circle [03.06.2011] | The most striking name on the list is that of Kofi Annan. As secretary general of the United Nations in 1998, Kofi Annan presided over a special Unite ... |
| A report that dares to tell the truth to power [03.06.2011] | Global commissions made up of eminent former policymakers can normally be counted upon to tell international leaders what they want to hear. But the G ... |
| Supply and demand [02.06.2011] | Narcotics liberalisation was once the cause of freethinkers and hippies. Now a more sober bunch is criticising the “war on drugs”. On June 2nd the Glo ... |
| Decriminalise possession of drugs, celebrities urge government [02.06.2011] | Dame Judi Dench, Sir Richard Branson, and Sting have joined an ex-drugs minister and three former chief constables in calling for the decriminalisati ... |
| Panel Calls War on Drugs a Failure [02.06.2011] | As spiraling drug violence kills thousands in Mexico and police battle gangs for control of Brazil's drug-infested slums, an international panel has c ... |
| Global Commission on Drug Policy Report [02.06.2011] | The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of ... |
| High-profile panel urges non-criminal approach to world drug policy [01.06.2011] | Calling the global war on drugs a costly failure, a group of high-profile world leaders is urging the Obama administration and other governments to en ... |
| The development of international drug control [01.02.2011] | The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug cont ... |
| Latin American statesmen question drugs war strategy [27.01.2011] | Three former Latin American presidents have declared the US-led “war on drugs” a failure and called for new strategies focusing on treatment to repla ... |
| Personalities urge new ways to tackle drug abuse [25.01.2011] | A group set up by former Latin American leaders and personalities including Virgin chief Richard Branson on Monday recommended that consumers of illi ... |
| Towards a new drug policy [25.01.2011] | What are the benefits and risks of eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana possession for personal use? What are the risks and benefits of disti ... |
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