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| "The war against drugs has failed" | The report, written by a high-profile panel including former Swiss cabinet minister Ruth Dreifuss, criticises the repressive approach in the US and... |
| 4 Hopeful Signs in the Fight Against Disastrous Drug War, Including a New Bill to End Federal Pot Prohibition | It's been forty years since President Nixon declared a "war on drugs." And we're not winning. In local communities, Black and Lati... |
| A Real Debate About Drug Policy | We believe that drug addiction is harmful to individuals, impairs health and has adverse societal effects. So we want an effective program to deal w... |
| A report that dares to tell the truth to power | Global commissions made up of eminent former policymakers can normally be counted upon to tell international leaders what they want to hear. But the G... |
| Breaking the Taboo: A Global Drug War Film | "If you can't control drugs in a maximum security prison, then how can you control drugs in a free society?" Those are my words that c... |
| Call Off the Global Drug War | In an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly importa... |
| Decriminalise possession of drugs, celebrities urge government | Dame Judi Dench, Sir Richard Branson, and Sting have joined an ex-drugs minister and three former chief constables in calling for the decriminalisat... |
| Fear and loathing surrounds decriminalisation | "The war on drugs has failed," said a recent report compiled by the Global Commission on Drug Policy,which compriseda former UN secretary... |
| Former Mexican president urges legalizing drugs | Part of the solution to end drug violence in Mexico should include legalizing drugs like marijuana for personal use, according to former President V... |
| Four Decades Later, It's Time to Scrap the Dead-End Drug War | I recently returned from the desert city of Durango, Mexico, where forensic officials are still trying to identify some 240 corpses discovered this ... |
| Global Commission on Drug Policy Report | The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of ... |
| Global reformers say it's time for change on drugs | Forty years after United States President Richard Nixon launched his War on Drugs, a conflict that far eclipses the War on Terror, the struggle to c... |
| High-profile panel urges non-criminal approach to world drug policy | Calling the global war on drugs a costly failure, a group of high-profile world leaders is urging the Obama administration and other governments to en... |
| It's time to transform the global war on drugs | At the recent Summit of the Americas, Latin America's leaders pressed Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama to study al... |
| It’s time to end the failed war on drugs | After 50 years of the failed drug war, it is time for today’s leaders to find the courage to speak out. For all the successes I’ve had in busine... |
| Latin American statesmen question drugs war strategy | Three former Latin American presidents have declared the US-led “war on drugs” a failure and called for new strategies focusing on treatment to repl... |
| More Calls For A Drug War Cease-Fire | Tomorrow marks the 79th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the U.S. prohibition on alcohol. On that day in 1932 John D. Rockefeller Jr., a v... |
| Panel Calls War on Drugs a Failure | As spiraling drug violence kills thousands in Mexico and police battle gangs for control of Brazil's drug-infested slums, an international panel ... |
| Personalities urge new ways to tackle drug abuse | A group set up by former Latin American leaders and personalities including Virgin chief Richard Branson on Monday recommended that consumers of ill... |
| Stephen Harper repeating same old mistakes with tougher pot laws, global group says | The Global Commission on Drug Policy says it’s “very weird” that Canada is taking a tougher line on marijuana when governments across the globe are re... |
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