{"id":6463,"date":"2015-11-13T08:49:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T08:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/decriminalisation-is-not-rocket-science-the-un-must-endorse-it\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:53:00","slug":"decriminalisation-is-not-rocket-science-the-un-must-endorse-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/decriminalisation-is-not-rocket-science-the-un-must-endorse-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Decriminalisation Is Not Rocket Science \u2013 The UN Must Endorse It!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Criminalising people who use drugs doesn’t work, and it harms our society. We congratulate the UN drug agency for having prepared a paper which supports decriminalisation \u2013 and we encourage the agency to endorse their own report. Watch our video, to find out more about how the UN paper on decriminalisation was suppressed, and how it was received at the international harm reduction conference!<\/div>\n
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On October 19th, Richard Branson, the head of Virgin and a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, blogged<\/a> about a United Nations paper (find it below the article!). He claimed that it had been suppressed by a powerful member state (probably the US) because it supported the decriminalisation of drug use – that is, the abolition of criminal sanctions directed against people who use drugs. The paper had been prepared by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and was intended for publication at the International Harm Reduction Conference <\/a>in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The paper encourages member states \u201cto use non-penal, public health measures to address drug dependence and drug use\u201d and to provide alternatives to punishment for small-scale distributors (pushers) as well. It uses entirely logical arguments, consistent with international law and scientific evidence.<\/div>\n
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