Drug lords say no to drug policy reform and thank the UN for keeping drugs illegal<\/p>\n
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50 years ago the United Nations adopted the first international treaty to prohibit some<\/em><\/strong> drugs \u2013 particularly drugs used by non-Europeans such as cannabis, cocaine and heroin. The logic of the system was simple: any use of the drugs listed, unless sanctioned for medical or scientific purposes, would be deemed \u2018abuse\u2019 and thus illegal. As a result of this convention, the unsanctioned production and trafficking of these drugs became a crime in all member states of the UN. It is now clear that punitive drug policies have several unintended consequences: they fuel the global HIV epidemic, undermine public health systems, result in a crisis for criminal justice systems, lead to severe human rights violations and create a massive illicit market worth an estimated annual value of almost 400 billion USD. There is a small group though that benefits from the global war on drugs: organized criminals and terrorists. (Read more about the global drug war!<\/a>)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n LEARN WHO ARE THE REAL BENEFICIARIES OF THE GLOBAL DRUG WAR!<\/strong><\/p>\n A Russian Heroin Trader Thanks the UN for 50 Years of Prohibition<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n