Rethinking drug prohibition on a global scale

We need to improve public understanding of the concept of "harm reduction" as the primary goal of drug policy
Vice (US)
Monday, May 2, 2016

ungass2016-ny-plenaryLast month, the United Nations General Assembly met for the first time in history to reconsider international drug prohibition with an eye toward policies focused on health and human rights. Facing unprecedented drug gang–related violence, Mexico, Colombia, and Guatemala had insisted the global confab be moved up by two years. Yet somehow there was no sense of urgency, and no actual changes were made, in large part due to the intransigence of Russia and China.