This hearing was held to promote health-based drug policies, guarantee access to essential medicines and respect the dignity of individuals in future drug policies.
Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield called for "flexible" interpretations of the international drug control treaties at the United Nations meeting in New York City last week, citing marijuana legalisation in Colorado and Washington.
Tennessee’s draconian law criminalizing pregnant drug users could help the country keep it’s notorious title as the world’s largest incarcerator of women, an infamy fuelled largely by the war on drugs.
The NYNGOC provides a platform for discussion of drugs and drug-related subjects and interfaces with the United Nations to collaborate on solutions to global drug problems.
Funding is available on a not-for-profit basis to individuals, organisations and community groups engaged in development activities in Thailand on a not-for-profit basis.
The current trend is already going to a better allocation of repressive and sanitary approaches, aided by a judicial reform and budgetary recast for a rebalancing of powers and better support for drug users.
Obama intends to nominate Vanita Gupta to lead the civil rights division of the Justice Department; she has been a strong supporter of marijuana decriminalisation and outright legalisation by states.
