Mexico ask for drug policy reform at the UN
Breaking news:In his last discourse at the UN, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico formally ask the UN to open a debate about drug policy: “Today, I am proposing formally that (the United Nations) … carry out a far-reaching assessment of the progress and the limits of the current prohibitionist approach to drugs,”
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/09/26/uk-un-assembly-mexico-drugs-idUKBRE88P1II20120926
Listen to the entire speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7sEmo2MLw
UN transcripts: http://gadebate.un.org/sites/default/files/gastatements/67/MX_es.pdf
http://www.puntorevista.com/secciones/mundial/inter2609calderon_onu_crisis_global.html
Author: Jeffrey Dhywood
Jeffrey Dhywood is a European-born investigative writer, lecturer and public speaker, drug policy analyst, author of "World War D – The Case against prohibitionism, roadmap to controlled re-legalization" http://www.world-war-d.com/.
Jeffrey Dhywood holds a degree in Mathematical logics (Model Theory). He lived 20 years in the US and is currently living in Latin America. He is also very familiar with Asia, which gives him a good grasp of the global dimension of the War on Drugs, and its global failure. His academic background and his direct experience allows him to bring common sense and sanity to an issue often mired in confusion, misconceptions and preconceptions.
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