This is a short summary of the 2nd Annual Conference of COPOLAD, an ambitious project which seeks to increase dialogue and cooperative work between governments from Latin America and the European Union.
Since 2011, CIDDH has implemented a hotline called The Green Line (or Línea Verde in Spanish) which provides legal information and assistance to all Peruvians who are questioned and arbitrarily arrested for drug use (mostly cannabis).
Taking place only a few weeks after the NATO Summit in Chicago in May 2012, an event where discussion of counter-narcotics policy was noticeably absent, the IDPC-funded International Institute of Strategic Studies colloquium succeeded in stimulating discussion on an issue area that has currently dropped off the policy radar.
The new legislation will reduce risks to the public by removing untested and potentially harmful products from being sold and introducing a pre-market approval scheme with testing requirements and retail restrictions for low-risk psychoactive substances.
Colombia's Constitutional Court has approved the government proposal to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of cocaine and marijuana for personal use, Colombia media reported Friday.
В ходе специальных тематических прений по наркотикам и преступности как угрозе развитию г-н Федотов заявил, что по мере приближения к 2015 году, когда намечено подвести итог общемировых усилий по достижению целей в области развития, сформулированных в Декларации тысячелетия, становится все более очевидным, что достижению этих целей препятствуют организованная преступность и запрещенные наркотики.
In this presentation, IDPC called for integrated drug strategies, with an increased focus on public health, social inclusion and economic development, through robust institutional structures at the UN level.
During a special thematic debate on drugs and crime as a threat to development, Mr. Fedotov said that with the 2015 deadline approaching to take stock of global progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing recognition that organized crime and illicit drugs impede the attainment of those goals.
With the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking once again upon us, we reflect upon yet another year in which governments have failed to recognize the disastrous consequences and failures of the global “war on drugs.”
