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The International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) is a global network of over 192 [1] NGOs that promote objective and open debate on drug policy at national, regional and international level. [2] IDPC supports evidence-based policies that are effective at reducing drug-related harm. [3]
Since 2013, a campaign called "Support. Don't punish" has been associated with the 26 June. Coordinated by the International Drug Policy Consortium, it demands that approaches to drug policy be focused on health, human rights, and the end of the criminalization of people who use drugs.
The efforts of US drug control commissioner Harry Anslinger and his Canadian counterpart and policy ally, Charles Henry Ludovic Sharman, are particularly notable. [9] [30] While many scholars view the drug conventions as a US-engineered prohibitionist regime, others offer more nuanced analyses.
The Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP) is a panel of world leaders and intellectuals, with a secretariat based in Geneva, Switzerland. [1]In June 2011, the commission said: "The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world."
The main policy documents of the preceding decade are the 2009 Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem, [16] the Joint Ministerial Statement of the 2014 high-level review by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the implementation by Member ...
These conclusions have been reached by a succession of committees and reports including, in the United Kingdom alone, the Police Foundation, the Home Affairs Select Committee, the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, the Royal Society of Arts, and the UK Drug Policy Consortium. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime has also acknowledged the ...
The drug control treaties mandates four international bodies: the Board, the World Health Organization, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (nowadays represented by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. The commission has power to influence drug control policy by advising other bodies and ...
Drug policy organizations based in the United States (1 C, 22 P) T. Temperance organizations ... International Drug Policy Consortium; International Narcotics Control ...