Released on Monday, October 22nd, 2018, the report from the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), a global coalition of 170 nongovernmental organizations working on drug policy issues, overviewed the failure of the 10-year global strategy from the United Nations, which intended to eradicate the illicit drug market by next year.

​Instead of curbing the problem, “consumption and illegal trafficking of drugs have reached record levels,” Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand and a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, wrote in the report’s foreword. Ann Fordham, executive director of the International Drug Policy Consortium, called her organization’s report “another nail in the coffin for the war on drugs.” …  “Governments will meet next March at the U.N. … [to] rubber-stamp more of the same for the next decade in drug policy,” she continued. “This would be a gross dereliction of duty and a recipe for more blood spilled in the name of drug control.”
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Original Article (Newsweek):
”War on drugs’ has been a spectacular failure, leading to thousands of murders and human rights abuse, report say…
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