War on Drugs: Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (June 2011)

Date: 01 June 2011

This report was published by the Global Commission on Drug Policy in 2011. The report examines the problems derived from the global War on Drugs and proposes a series of principles and recommendations to address these problems with a scientific approach and in respect for human rights standards.

Topics covered include:

Drug use motivated discrimination;
Drug policy experimentation as a tool to combat organised crime;
The proposition of health-based drug policies;
Recommendations to respect the human rights of persons who use drugs, illicit crop growers and individuals in the lower end of the drug market;
The adoption of educational focused drug policies as a preventive tool among young people and people who use drugs;
Shifting repression to violent criminal organisations in order not to reduce the drug markets, but their harm to individuals and national security;
Abolishing prohibitionist regimes in favour of scientifically proven, fiscally responsible and human rights compliant drug policies.

Citation: Global Commission on Drug Policy, ‘War on Drugs: Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy' (June 2011).