Why current drug laws are not protecting our children

It goes without saying we all wish to protect the young and vulnerable. Intuitively, current drug laws make sense. Pushing drugs to the fringes of decent society and maintaining a ban through criminalisation has plausibility. But what if we’re causing more harm than good?

On the UN’s ‘Universal Children’s Day’, a new report from the ‘Count the Costs of the War on Drugs’ initiative will be launched to detail just how international laws are failing in their duty to minimise the potential harms of drugs. ‘The War on Drugs: Harming not protecting young people' outlines just what’s going on and how drugs specifically impact families as they,
 

  • Threaten children's health by increasing drug dangers
  • Lead to the trafficking and enslavement of children
  • Ruin young people's lives with criminal records
  • Make youngsters who take drugs scared to seek
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