The war on drugs has failed. After four decades and one trillion dollars spent, what do we have to show for it? A global increase in drug use, drug-related crime, violence, immense suffering and millions of people in prison for non-violent crimes.

It is time we broke the taboo and opened up the debate, rather than hoping the problem will solve itself. In business, if we see one of our companies failing then we take steps to identify and solve the problem. We don’t continue failing strategies that cost huge sums of money and only exacerbate the problem. Rather than continuing on the disastrous path the war on drugs is on, we need to look at what works and what doesn’t in terms of real