With the same determination, it carries on the advocacy and the legacy of the founding Commissioners of 2011 and honours the memory of those who have passed. [...] This has happened both at the UN member states level through the negotiated outcome of the UN General Assembly Special Session in 2016 and within the UN system itself – the secretariat, agencies, funds and programmes – through the adoption by the UN Chief Executive Board of the Common Position on Drugs. [...] Such a reform has the potential, by separating the processes of medical and non-medical uses at the technical and political levels, to address the chronic shortages of controlled medicines in low- and middle-income countries and help reduce the overconsumption of prescribed drugs in high-income countries. [...] One of the main successes of the summit was the commissioning of a study on the consequences of current repressive policies, and the recommending of new approaches to drug policy. [...] state to decriminalize the consumption of all drugs and the first jurisdiction in the world to lay out plans for regulating the use of psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms”, in certified therapeutic settings.
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