Backed by five Nobel economists, numerous experts and government leaders, a new comprehensive report presented in London on Wednesday is calling for the end of the international so-called “war on drugs.”
“The drug war’s failure has been recognized by public health professionals, security experts, human rights authorities and now some of the world’s most respected economists.” —John Collins, London School of Economics
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The London School of Economics report— (pdf)—outlines what its authors see as the “enormous negative outcomes and collateral damage” that have followed the militarized effort by governments who declared “war” on the illicit drug trade more than a generation ago and calls of those same governments to redirect taxpayer “resources away from an enforcement-led and prohibition-focused strategy” and instead focus on “proven public health policies of harm reduction and treatment” strategies for drug users.
As the report’s forward makes clear:
“The drug war’s failure has been recognized by public health professionals, security experts, human rights authorities and now some of the world’s most respected economists,” said John Collins, coordinator of LSE IDEAS International Drug Policy Project and editor of the report.
And Danny Quah, professor of economics and international development at LSE and chair of the group responsible for the report, explained that world leaders, to whom the report in large part is targeted, “need to recognize that toeing the line on current drug control strategies comes with extraordinary human and financial costs to their citizens and economies.”
The report comes as the UN General Assembly prepares to convene a special session on drugs in 2016 in order to review the functioning of the current global drug control system, which numerous agencies, individual experts, and studies have shown is failing miserably.
The new report is being presented to Guatemala’s Minister of Interior, Mauricio López Bonilla, at a public event at LSE on Wednesday and Guatemala’s President, Otto Pérez Molina, is expected to take its findings to international forums such as the United Nations and Organization of American States to help drive reform of global drug policies.