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EU
Think
Tank
Slams
Global
Drug
Fight
3/26/04
courtesy NORML News, http://www.norml.org
Vienna, Austria: Representatives
from the Network of European Foundations (NEF) Comite de Sages and The
Senlis Council criticized UN-sponsored drug prohibition policies at a symposium
last week coinciding with the United Nations 47th Session of the Commission
on Narcotic Drugs.
Speakers criticized criminal
drug prohibition and enforcement policies as fueling drug-related crime,
endangering international security, and sponsoring terrorism.
"The system [of criminal
drug prohibition] is not working but [this] is not being debated at the
UN; it is a taboo," said NEF member Sir Keith Morris, a former British
ambassador to Colombia.
Former Interpol Secretary
General Raymond Kendall said that the UN must "change its approach from
repressive law enforcement" to one of harm reduction. "The United
Nations in 1998 set itself the aim of a drug free world by 2008," he said.
"We are halfway down the road to 2008 and there are more drugs than ever.
So much for the idea we have made progress."
Canadian Senator Pierre Claude
Nolin, who chaired a 2002 Senate committee that recommended regulating
cannabis to those age 16 and older, said: "A drug free society has never
existed in human history and will not exist in the near future... Sooner
or later, governments around the world will have to, in the names of transparency
and honesty, acknowledge this massive failure."
Other speakers at the conference
included Eugene Oscapella of the Canadian Foundation on Drug Policy, Portuguese
MP Vitalino Canas, and General Paulo Roberto Yog de Miranda Uch a, national
anti-drug secretary for Brazil.
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