Ethan Nadelmann Director, Drug Policy Alliance

Make anti drug policy the exclusive concern of the federal government

We believe that our restrictive drug policy has contributed to this.

A report released recently by the United Kingdom s Drug Policy Commission correctly calls for a smarter drug policy that focuses on addressing associated violence rather than simply making arrests.

A sea change in drug policy seems to be in the making.

This policy of drug prohibition and repression panders to certain interest groups.

Despite its recent progress, Brazil's drug policy is far from being humane.

However, the emphasis of our anti drug policy is not only on repression.

The Dutch Government established the principles of its drug abuse policy in 1976.

Acknowledging that community capacity building is an essential component of an effective drug policy,

Policy directives to the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Policy directives to the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

In 1994, the Office of National Drug Control Policy designated the United States Virgin Islands, along with Puerto Rico, a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.

There was clear consensus on how community capacity building was an essential component of effective drug policy.

There was clear consensus on how community capacity building was an essential component of effective drug policy.

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In that regard, my Government has adopted a new malaria treatment policy to overcome the problem of drug resistance.

11. As part of the policy to intensify efforts to combat drugs and drug trafficking, the Attorney General has introduced into the Legislative Assembly a bill to amend existing drug legislation.

Emphasis is given to ensuring that scientific findings are used effectively in the development of drug control strategy and policy.

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs is the principal policy making body for drug abuse control within the United Nations system.

Of course, I also realize that a balanced drug policy can be successful only if is supported on a global scale.

The growing complexity and the multifaceted dimensions of the problem of drug abuse and drug trafficking therefore require a carefully coordinated policy and a plan of action at the national, regional and international levels.

(a) A regional adviser on pharmaceutical, diagnostic and therapeutic substances reviewed the drug situation in July 1992 and a national plan was proposed comprising reorganization of drug management at the Ministry of Health as a first and essential step towards the establishment of a national drug policy

1. Emphasizes the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as the principal United Nations policy making body on drug control issues and as the governing body of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme

Radically alter Mexico s drug policy by legalizing drugs and assuming the consequences in the United Nations and in relations with the US.

Instead of signaling a new way forward for international drug policy, the Vienna declaration represents the same, failed politics of the past.

It therefore had a zero tolerance policy towards any form of drug abuse, which was strictly prohibited by law and severely punished.

4. Underlines the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as the principal United Nations policy making body on drug control issues

IX. CAMPAIGN AGAINST DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT DRUG

Get rid of drug use. Exterminate drug plantations.

298. Following a request for further information on drug addiction among women and related programmes, the representative of the Netherlands explained that the central objective of the drug policy was to reduce, as much as possible, the risks that drug abuse presented to the users, their environment and society.

The Czech Parliament is in the process of formulating an overall anti drug policy on the basis of a proposal by the Government.

The new law focuses on the ill effects of drug abuse, drug addiction or drug dependency.

IX. CAMPAIGN AGAINST DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFICKING

In 2011, he was part of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which called for a public health and harm reduction approach towards drug use, alongside with other luminaries such as Kofi Annan, Paul Volcker, and George Papandreou.

Although I, as a doctor, naturally consider the preventive approach and the treatment and reintegration of drug patients as a priority concern in drug policy, I am convinced that we cannot do without repressive action in some areas.

(e) Tools for policy and programme development and practical guides for practitioners on drug abuse and crime prevention, treatment and rehabilitation published and disseminated

The policy of illicit drug traffic control has probably been the most successful, for it has succeeded in containing the growth of that activity.

The positive news is that countries in almost all regions seem to have in place some of the key elements of a comprehensive drug demand reduction strategy, which is one of the cornerstones for a sustained drug control policy.

At the same time, the Standing Intersectoral Commission is trying to coordinate approaches to achieve a national master plan as soon as possible, harmonize national anti drug legislation and create an organic system to implement national anti drug policy.

(xiv) International efforts against drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking

The PRESIDENT I now call on Mr. Lee P. Brown, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy of the United States of America.

Furthermore, the Government of Ecuador, under Mr. Sixto Durán Ballen, has adopted a firm and resolute policy in its tireless fight against illicit drug trafficking.

Thus Panama continues to reaffirm its policy of international cooperation with a view to the eradication of drug trafficking and the consumption of illicit substances.

The fight against drug trafficking and drug abuse also requires constant imaginative ideas to match the sophistication of drug traffickers.