Why The U.N. Will Abandon 'Just Say No' Approach To Drugs
I have no idea whether the clerical staff at the United Nations chose to schedule this year's General Assembly Special Session on Narcotic Drugs (UNGASS) during 420 week as some kind of wry commentary or winking joke, but the timing feels right; there's a certain harmony between a global holiday to celebrate cannabis civil disobedience and a reform agenda to de-escalate the global drug war.
Yes, you read that right: after decades of impotent rhetoric describing a fictional "world without drugs," the United Nations is coming together, even as you read this, to work out a ceasefire on the War on Drugs.
If that comes as a surprise, you're forgiven – international drug control policy is quite complicated, after all. To the extent that there's any simplifying theme, it has been the leadership of the United States, which has pushed for increasingly strict international drug controls for over a century –...
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