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Drug-free World: Reloaded

6 April, 2009 - 22:11
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Watch our video with the sleeping delegates of a UN meeting dreaming about a drug free world

“A déja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something,” says Trinity in the cult movie of the Wachowski-brothers, The Matrix. The 2009 UN high level meeting on drugs was a déja vu experience for us: instead of realizing the failure of achieving the targets adopted by the 1998 UNGASS, governments committed themselves again to make the world drug-free. If we read the text of the new Political Declaration we can have the strange feeling that somebody simply copy pasted the 1998 declaration: the target is “to eliminate or significantly reduce” the demand and supply of drugs in 10 years, just like 10 years ago. The race for a drug-free world is not over, only the deadline changed, it’s 2019 now. Déja vu – a glitch in the matrix of the global drug prohibition regime, and it is a sign of change.

Watch the video and find out more!



Posted by Peter Sarosi

 

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 7 April, 2009 - 14:18
I (heart) the HCLU and ENCOD! Thanks for going to Vienna!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 7 April, 2009 - 15:24
<p>Peter, I wish you had it with Portuguese subtitles, only then, thousands of Brazilians, that don't understand English, would be able to understand it, and help spreading the idea. Can we do that?! Marisa</p><p></p>

Submitted by drogriporter fan (not verified) on 27 April, 2009 - 16:51
These videos are getting better and better. Such a mood-brightener. It's really inspiring. Instructions on adding captions and subtitles to YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/t/captions_about http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100076 http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100077 You can add captions in multiple languages, and viewers can also select to automatically translate the captions into other languages! http://www.dullest.com/blog/youtube-subtitle-captions/ Adding captions to videos - excellent way to reach a global audience. Automatic Google Translate seems to give pretty acceptable quality, at least to and from English.

Submitted by idoru on 12 May, 2009 - 00:09

Thank you very much, we will look into these links!

Submitted by Castex (not verified) on 30 May, 2009 - 22:09

The target is “to eliminate or significantly reduce” the demand and supply of drugs in 10 years, just like 10 years ago. It is the most important point...

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 26 February, 2010 - 06:01
Peter is wrong. Stop being such a pain at these meetings. Go use drugs if you want, but leave us alone.

Submitted by sarosip on 26 February, 2010 - 23:20

Look, we can make a deal: if you leave drug users alone, you don't criminalize and stigmatize them, we will leave Costa alone.

Submitted by idoru on 12 March, 2010 - 18:11

Who is US?