Nobel economists, others urge end to 'war on drugs'

Reuters
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Global efforts to thwart the drugs trade have failed and the time has come for a radical rethink, according to a group of Nobel-prize winning economists, a former U.S secretary of state, the deputy prime minister of Britain and others. "It is time to end the ‘war on drugs’ and massively redirect resources toward effective evidence-based policies underpinned by rigorous economic analysis," the group said in a foreword to a new academic report on global anti-drugs policies Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy of the London School of Economics (LSE).