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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 As the UN Marks Global Anti-Drug Day, Civil Society Fights Back 🌿As the UN Marks Global Anti-Drug Day, Civil Society Fights Back
On the UN's International Day Against Drug Abuse, activists in 150 cities worldwide are saying prohibition is the problem, not the solution.
Today marks 28 years since the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly declared June 26 as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Its stated mission is to “strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse.” However, as the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime’s 2015 report released today shows, approximately 246 million people used an illicit drug in 2013 alone and 187,100 suffered drug-related deaths that same year, often due to a lack of access to treatment. Meanwhile, illicit drug markets and organized crime have diversified through shifting smuggling routes and the rise of the deep web.
Clearly, something is not working.
While June 26 has been used by some countries in the past to further a prohibitionist agenda and even ...
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