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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 UN denies Richard Branson's claim it is poised to call for drug decriminalisation 🌿UN denies Richard Branson's claim it is poised to call for drug decriminalisation
Businessman wrote on his blog that the UN office of drugs and crime was poised to embrace decriminalising personal possession and use
Richard Branson has been involved in a bruising clash with the United Nations following his claim that the organisation is poised to endorse a global policy of decriminalising drugs.
Branson, a member of the global commission on drugs policy, wrote on his personal blog on the Virgin website on Monday that the UN’s office of drugs and crime (UNODC), which has been a bastion of the “war on drugs”, was poised to publish a statement endorsing the decriminalisation of the personal possession and use of drugs.
The entrepreneur described the move as a refreshing shift from a “body that has shaped much of global drugs policy for decades”, and said he was breaking an embargo on an expected statement because he feared that political pressure would lead...
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