Drug expert says Australia's presence at UN summit a waste of money

Alex Wodak says conference in New York is ‘the last big international forum before global drug prohibition collapses’
The Guardian (UK)
Friday, April 8, 2016

The president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, Dr Alex Wodak, has questioned Australia’s attendance at the special session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGASS) on the world drug problem, describing the conference as “the last big international forum before global drug prohibition collapses”. The UNGASS is being held in New York from 19 to 21 April. It follows the failure of member countries to achieve a UNGASS goal set in 1998 for a drug-free world by 2008 by following a war-on-drugs approach.