"Organized crime has undermined governance, state legitimacy and stability, the rule of law and democratic institutions, all while spurring violence." DOWNLOAD THE REPORT

"The international community must recognize the incoherence and inconsistencies in the international scheduling system, and must trigger a critical review of the current models of classification of drugs."





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"The new report by the Global Commission, "Regulation, the responsible control of drugs" shows that the regulation of currently illegal drugs is not only possible, it is necessary - not because drugs are safe, but because they are risky."





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"The prejudices faced by people who used drugs and the criminalization of their drug use are a violation of their citizens’ rights. In order to change how people who use drugs are treated, we need to change how we speak about them and how we consider their use in a comprehensive manner, including all social and economic determinants linked to it." -José Ramos-Horta

"States must end all penalties—both criminal and civil—for drug possession for personal use, and the cultivation of drugs for personal consumption, and implement alternatives to punishment for all low-level, non-violent actors in the drug trade."

“I believe that drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrong government policies have destroyed many more” -Kofi Annan

“The most effective way to reduce the extensive harms of prohibition and advance the goals of public health and safety is to get drugs under control through responsible legal regulation.” -Sir Richard Branson