Latin American Commission on Drugs Calls for Paradigm Shift Away from Prohibition

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Author:

Bruce Zagaris

Volume:

25

Issue:

4

139

Abstract:

On February 14, 2009, the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, headed by former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and former presidents Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico and Cesar Gaviria of Colombia, called the thirty-year U.S. “war on drugs” in the Americas a failure and urged a drastic change in the prohibitionist policy...[more]