Al Jazeera
The United Nations says it is losing its global war on drugs.
Anti-drug policies have in fact indirectly created "a criminal market of macro-economic size", said a UN report presented at a global drug conference in Vienna on Wednesday.
Citing the report, Antonio Maria Costa, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said the estimated value of the illicit global drug trade had ballooned to more than $300bn a year.
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Owen, who was one of the first Canadian politicians to advocate a rethink of traditional anti-drug policies, said "the ideology saying that this is a criminal issue has absolutely not worked anywhere for decades and decades".
Saying that policy-makers must "accept that the user is sick and the dealer is evil", he called on them to look at scientific and medical evidence.
"Dozens and dozens of reports written all around the world from a scientific and medical point of view ... support drug policy reform, not prohibition," he said.
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Wild applause .... common sense, that's what it is. But then we've known this all along, and when the CIA finally gets its fingers chopped off, drugs will simply disappear. You know what the Taliban's worst crime was? They banned poppies. Eradicated the crop ENTIRELY in 2 seasons. It took the US and it's "northern alliance" to INCREASE poppy production in 1 season.
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This is such a wierd concept: war on drugs. War on human people, yes, but war on plant and/or manufactured people??
Ah, but we humans have declared war on the natural world, haven't we?
Every ad. agency proclaims this, and every development of the wild world into human habitation does, too.
Love,
Terri.
In Joburg.
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