Why world leaders think drugs should be decriminalized
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“My country has suffered probably the most from the war on drugs. We need to find more efficient ways to combat it,” Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia, told CNBC.
“How can I tell someone with half a hectare growing marijuana, that he has to go to jail?”
The next meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, in Vienna in March, could be a key turning point in the change on international drugs policy, according to Santos.
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The war on drugs has imprisoned a disproportionate number of black people in the U.S., its critics point out.
“People are being given enormous prison terms just for use. There has got to be a better way than ruining so many people’s lives,” Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said.