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Robbie Gennet: End the Drug War by Rescheduling All Drugs.
The $320 billion annual global drug industry now accounts for 1 percent of all commerce on the planet. The war on drugs is a failure. All that taxpayer money spent with no real impact on lowering taxpayer consumption. Yet simply adjusting the methodology and basis of our drug scheduling could change it all, using a new set of standards based on empirical data and facts, not misleading rhetoric propping up the status quo. link by Mary
World Drug Report 2011
Many illicit drug markets have reached global dimensions and require control strategies on a comparable scale. In that context, there is a need to better understand these transnational markets and the manner in which they operate. The yearly World Drug Report is a contribution towards that objective.
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