The Misuse of Drugs act started decades of criminalisation-centred drug policy that hasn’t worked.
- Associate Professor of Criminology and Human Rights, Swansea University
How much more suffering and death will people who use drugs have to endure?
The UN’s new rights focus has the potential to overhaul the punitive nature of the war on drugs.
Singapore claims to have nearly eliminated drug use and crime thanks to capital punishment - but the data tells a very different story.
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