Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies that Work

But we are at the necessary funding for an international The Global Commission proposes five pathways the beginning of the journey and governments can More than eighty per cent of the world´s program – to be overseen by the World to improve the global drug policy regime. [...] Indeed, there is growing support for Narcotics Control Board (INCB) – to ensure health and access to essential medicines is end to the criminalization and incarceration more flexible interpretations and reform of the equitable and affordable access to these a key objective and obligation of the global of users together with targeted prevention, international drug control conventions aligned medici. [...] Notwithstanding an overarching goal to protect the 10 per cent of people who use drugs globally are considered to ‘health and welfare of mankind,’ the regime, and policies adopted be ‘problem users’.3 This suggests that the significant majority of to support it since the 1960s, is premised on the criminalization of drug consumption is essentially non-problematic. [...] significant achievements in fighting the justice system to force people arrested drug cartels and lowering the levels of The burden of enforcement responses to curb drug production for drug possession into ‘treatment’ often violence and crime, the areas of illegal and trafficking invariably falls heaviest on the most vulnerable and does more harm than good. [...] While serious concerns remain about inadequate controls on Around the world, the debate about the legal regulation of cannabis trafficking … If that means legalizing, and the availability and marketing of alcohol and tobacco in many – and potentially other drugs – is moving into the mainstream.95 the world thinks that’s the solution, I will regions, these two drugs are produced and transited large.