‘Global Commission’: Drug War Has Failed

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A self-styled “global commission” of former heads of state and sundry international worthies (including Paul Volcker and former Secretary of State George P. Schultz) has released a report which says that the ‘war on drugs’ as failed and calls for an end to the “criminalization, marginalization and stigmatization of people who use drugs but who do no harm to others.”

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