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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Why the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Need Good Drug Policy 🌿Why the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Need Good Drug Policy
Internationally, the drug policies created over the past 50 years have been a bust. The emphasis on prohibition and security has done little to control the production, transit, or consumption of drugs. These policies have failed because the factors driving thousands of people to join illicit drug markets are deep and structural. Try as you might, you can’t just police them out of existence.
Poverty, gender inequality, rural development and land rights, corruption and weak rule of law—these are the factors that fuel the illicit drug market. They’re also development issues—the very issues tackled by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goalds (SDGs), which were adopted last week. This is why the SDGs must incorporate reformed drug policies. Neglecting a developmental approach to drug policies has led to myriad consequences, from environmental degradation and crime to destabilization and displacement.
In production countries, prohibitionist policies are based on the assumption that by reducing the...
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