Is The U.n. Thinking Of Softening It's "just Say No" Policy?

FritzDaKatx2 · Jul 23, 2015

Interesting wording in the article, like they may be looking into decriminalization as some measure of combating poverty and crime in producer nations??

"The enforcement of these bans and eradication efforts have in many cases negatively affected the public health and human rights of people living in poverty. They have destroyed the livelihoods of those who depend on cultivating and selling drugs to survive and forcibly displaced populations from areas where illicit crops are grown."

"Despite clear evidence of how drug control policies can impede human development, the potential impacts of drug control on the health and human rights of the poor and most marginalized have not received sufficient attention."

"For a more development sensitive approach to drug control policies, we need to measure the underlying conditions of poverty, inequality and insecurity which often drive people to cultivate drug crops and enter the drug trade. Specific guidelines on human rights should be developed to guide the development of rights-based drug control measures"
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Like they say, the first step to overcoming a problem is admitting there is one.

http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2015/7/23/The-case-for-a-rights-based-development-sensitive-approach-to-drug-control-policy/

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