Sunday, September 19, 2010

Outgoing UN Drug/Crime Director living in a Fantasy Land

An interesting post in the Vancouver Sun in regards to comments made by the outgoing Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa.

Some of Antonio's comments on Cannabis prohibition appear at the very least, dated. At worst, completely ignorant of facts.

Read the post here

Some of Neil Boyd's response is here:

The continuation of criminal prohibition is not the answer. We can demonstrate that rates of consumption of a drug as lethal and addictive as tobacco can be reduced without resorting to criminalization. Why are we continuing to waste costly police and enforcement resources on a drug as trivial as cannabis?

1 comments:

twisty said...

The one quote that the US seem to have forgotten is that "if you don't remember history you'll be doomed to relive it"...

this has all been seen before in the years of prohibition....
all that accomplished was getting many killed and the start of FBI...

it did not stop the flow of alcohol, just as it won't help fight pot...