41. Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies That Work
- Author:
- Global Commission On Drug Policy
- Publication Date:
- 09-2014
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Global Commission On Drug Policy
- Abstract:
- The Commission’s 2014 report broke ground by advancing and globalizing the debate over drug control measures and its alternatives. 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 health and community safety first; ensuring equitable access to controlled medicines; ending the criminalization of people who use or possess drugs; promoting alternatives to incarceration for low-level participants in illicit drug markets, including cultivators; and encouraging policy innovations such as legally regulated markets, beginning with, but not limited to cannabis, coca leaf and certain other psychoactive substances. Never had so many former world leaders spoken out in support of legal, regulation of currently illicit drugs.
- Topic:
- Crime, War on Drugs, Regulation, Drugs, Public Health, and Medicine
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus