Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report

[struggle4progress]

Duncan Campbell
The Guardian, Wednesday 11 March 2009

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." ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/11/un-drug-strategy

[Webster Green]

1. There's been a lot more than 10 years wasted on the phony "drug war"..

Legalize all of it! :smoke:

[Oldenuff]

2. Not to worry...

We've got money to burn!(even on the failed drug war)

In our frenzy to throw money at every threatened business,why should the drug smugglers and their cohorts in government be left out?

Do you suppose the government will ever wise up?Or,are there powerful and important people involved in drug trafficking that won't allow legalization?