Europe needs to unite on reform of drug policy

When the EU stands together, we are a powerful union with real clout that is listened to around the globe

On 19th April next year, the countries of the United Nations will meet in special session in New York to debate the future of global drugs policy. The starting gun on government negotiations for the summit was fired last week at a meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna.

The last time one of these important events took place, in 1998, the proceedings were dominated by a US administration still deeply committed to the so-called ‘war on drugs’, the brainchild of Richard Nixon in 1971. In what now feels like an act of collective wishful thinking, the assembled member states solemnly committed themselves to the goal of “a drug-free world by 2008”.

The objective of progressive drug policy reformers is clear: this UN special session should...

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