Global Commission on Drug Policy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-16

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00:01:22 1 Membership
00:04:00 1.1 Former members
00:05:06 2 Reactions to the 2011 report
00:05:16 2.1 Immediate
00:06:26 2.2 Extended
00:07:23 2.3 Background papers
00:08:14 3 2014 report
00:08:50 4 Disappointment with UNGASS 2016
00:09:52 5 2016 report
00:10:37 6 Position paper on the opioid crisis in North America
00:11:21 7 2017 report
00:12:22 8 Position Paper on Drug Policy and The Sustainable Development Agenda
00:13:23 9 Regulation: The Responsible Control of Drugs: 2018 report



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The Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP) is a panel of world leaders and intellectuals, with a Secretariat based in Geneva, Switzerland.In June 2011, the commission said: "The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world." The emphasis in drug policy on harsh law enforcement over four decades has not accomplished its goal of banishing drugs and has in fact spawned wide, dramatic eruptions of violence, the report continued. By way of alternative, the GCDP report "advocates decriminalizing drug use by those who do no harm to others."The commission was formed to "bring to the international level an informed, science-based discussion about humane and effective ways to reduce the harm caused by drugs to people and societies. [It built] on the experience of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy" and extended to West Africa in 2013-4 via an initiative of GCPD board member and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the West Africa Commission on Drugs.At year-end 2017, GCDP board member George Shultz and economist and former secretary of finance in Mexico Pedro Aspe reaffirmed the message of the commission in a New York Times op-ed.The Secretariat is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and handles the daily operations of the Commission. Its work is directed by the Executive Secretary, Khalid Tinasti.