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
	
	
	Monday, May 2, 2016
 Last 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.
Last 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.
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        russia | 2016 UNGASS | jamaica | canada | prohibition | netherlands | portugal | UN drug control | harm reduction | decriminalization        
    

 
						


