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 Tripp420
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 Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report 
#9950556 - 03/11/09 08:06 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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(The Guardian) -- The UN strategy on drugs over the past decade has been a failure, a European commission report claimed yesterday on the eve of the international conference in Vienna that will set future policy for the next 10 years.
The report came amid growing dissent among delegates arriving at the meeting to finalise a UN declaration of intent.
Referring to the UN's existing strategy, the authors declared that they had found "no evidence that the global drug problem was reduced". They wrote: "Broadly speaking, the situation has improved a little in some of the richer countries while for others it worsened, and for some it worsened sharply and substantially, among them a few large developing or transitional countries."
The policy had merely shifted the problem geographically, they said. "Production and trafficking controls only redistributed activities. Enforcement against local markets failed in most countries."
Representatives from governments are split in their efforts to formulate an international drugs policy for the next decade. The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs is due to formulate a strategy over the next two days, but there is widespread disagreement among delegates and a general feeling that an opportunity for a united approach has been lost.
In an article for the Guardian, Mike Trace, chairman of the International Drug Policy Consortium, says: "We're about to see the international community walk up the political and diplomatic path of least resistance. It will do nothing to help the millions of people around the world whose lives are destroyed by drug markets and drug use. And the depressing thing about it is that we can all book our seats for 2019, to go through this charade again."
Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, has defended the approach. He is due to talk today on organised crime, which he has described as "one of the unintended consequences of drug control". He will warn that "a criminal market, of staggering proportion, risks undermining drug control" and outline a three-pronged approach to tackling drug-related crime.
In London, however, Lady Meacher, speaking on behalf of more than 30 members of the Lords, warned that the existing hardline prohibitionist strategy, which has been led by the US, had been deeply damaging. It was now being challenged by politicians, scientists and lawyers around the world, she said.
"We are concerned that the war on drugs has failed and the harm it has caused is far greater," said Meacher, at a briefing organised by the drugs advice charity Release. "What we want the UN to do is accept that the previous declaration was hopelessly unrealistic."
She said that Barack Obama had yet to appoint a new drugs tsar in the US but there were already signs that he was adopting a more liberal approach to the issue. The US president has lifted the ban on federal funding for needle exchange programmes, which are seen as crucial in the struggle to combat the spread of HIV.Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, director of the global drug policy programme at the Open Society Institute, Warsaw, said: "It is now clear that after months of negotiations, millions of people around the world will continue to suffer needlessly. Thanks to the global 'war on drugs' over the past decade, close to 2 million people living in the former Soviet Union are infected with HIV, half a million US citizens languish in prison for non-violent, drug-related crimes, and billions of dollars are spent on destructive military actions in Colombia while the production of cocaine continues to rise."
The first two days of the session will be held at ministerial level to assess progress made in the decade since a special session of the UN general assembly set the target of a "drugs-free" world. The aim has been criticised for not addressing the problems of addiction and treatment.
Prof Tim Rhodes, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Health, said the number of injecting drug users around the world could have reached 15 million and this was responsible for 10% of global HIV infections.
Rhodes said the problem was particularly serious in Russia, where intensive street-level policing had exacerbated the difficulties.
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 johnm214
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Re: Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report [Re: Tripp420]
#9950651 - 03/11/09 08:43 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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um.... wait.
They are talking about lives destroyed by drug use, and yet they recomend and require (the UN as a whole and member countries) criminalizing such. Anyone see a problem with this?
"Its so sad you are a terrible destitute druggie"
"Actually I've got an A average in college, have a great girlfriend, and am doing fine, thanks"
"No, its really sad drugs are destroying your life, here go to jail for your own good. We'll also take your car and fine you to death to help you... somehow"
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Green_T
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Re: Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report [Re: johnm214]
#9950740 - 03/11/09 09:08 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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johnm214 said:
"Its so sad you are a terrible destitute druggie"
"Actually I've got an A average in college, have a great girlfriend, and am doing fine, thanks"
"No, its really sad drugs are destroying your life, here go to jail for your own good. We'll also take your car and fine you to death to help you... somehow"
"Or if you don't want to spend as much time in jail, you can snitch on whoever sold you the drugs, putting your life at risk. It doesn't matter that someone will take their place anyway, but still. Oh, and about that felony we are going to put on your rap sheet? Its so future employers know about what you do in your private time regardless of how well you did in college, so you can't get a job and may have to resort to crime to make ends meet. In the end, your drug conviction does your community a favor....somehow"
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libertyshroom
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Re: Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report [Re: Green_T]
#9951363 - 03/11/09 11:13 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Wow it took them this long to find out that the war on drugs is a failure? I think we need some replacements over at the U.N. headquarters.
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suburbanned
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Re: Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report [Re: libertyshroom]
#9951473 - 03/11/09 11:36 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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I kinda see this as decent news? They're talking about how prohibition has failed
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buddhabadger
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Re: Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report [Re: suburbanned]
#9952174 - 03/11/09 01:51 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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suburbantoker said:
I kinda see this as decent news? They're talking about how prohibition has failed
They're talking about the fact that prohibition has failed but they don't seem to understand WHY it failed or even WHY people want to alter their consciousness in the first place. They seem to be viewing drug use of any kind (beyond approved drugs and pharms) as the problem instead of drug ABuse.
Really, at this point, all the members of the INCB/UN council on drugs need to wear signs saying "We simply don't get it."
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Edited by buddhabadger (03/11/09 01:52 PM)
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ganja_guru
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Re: Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report [Re: buddhabadger]
#9952925 - 03/11/09 03:55 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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All of those people are "religious"(I think?),And who are they to not allow me to put something in my body...Are they gods?
Make Mcdonalds illegal,Then I wont bitch
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LeAto
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Re: Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report [Re: Tripp420]
#9952927 - 03/11/09 03:55 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Link to the European commission report?
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Green_T
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Re: Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report [Re: LeAto]
#9953437 - 03/11/09 05:16 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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(Excerpt from the BBC article)
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"The important answer I am expecting from member states is what are they planning to do to control mafia and thus to control crime, not only because of the violent dimension, but also because organised crime is starting to undermine a number of smaller countries," he said.
The complexity of the drugs issue - which spans health policy, law enforcement and international relations - means no two countries tackle the problem in the same way.
Some European and Latin American countries want to put more emphasis on public education and the treatment of addicts, rather than criminalising addicts and drug farmers in the developing world.
But other countries, including the United States and Russia, favour a more traditional approach to the problem of drugs.
It seems the smaller countries are getting what is going on, but the US and Russia are so caught up in politics and disconnected from reality they still don't get it.
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buddhabadger
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Re: Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report [Re: Green_T]
#9954694 - 03/11/09 08:04 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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green_titan said:
(Excerpt from the BBC article)
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stuff
It seems the smaller countries are getting what is going on, but the US and Russia are so caught up in politics and disconnected from reality they still don't get it.
Don't forget the UK and Cracqui Smith.
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Edited by buddhabadger (03/11/09 08:06 PM)
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SvampViking
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Re: Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report [Re: Tripp420]
#9955387 - 03/11/09 09:27 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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It is oft said that people use drugs to escape reality. These guys at the UN must have some seriously good shit, they haven't had a grasp on reality for ten years now.
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