Origanalist
05-06-2014, 06:10 PM
The global “war on drugs” has been a catastrophic failure and world leaders must rethink their approach, a group including five Nobel Prize-winning economists, Britain’s deputy prime minister and a former U.S. secretary of state said Tuesday.
An academic report published by the London School of Economics (LSE) called “Ending the Drug Wars” pointed to violence in Afghanistan, Latin America and other regions as evidence of the need for a new approach.
“It is time to end the ‘war on drugs’ and massively redirect resources towards effective evidence-based policies underpinned by rigorous economic analysis,” they said in a foreword to the report.
“The pursuit of a militarised and enforcement-led global ‘war on drugs’ strategy has produced enormous negative outcomes and collateral damage.”
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The report was signed by George Shultz, the U.S. secretary of state under Ronald Reagan, British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, and former NATO and E.U. foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
It was also signed by Nobel economics prize winners Kenneth Arrow (1972), Christopher Pissarides (2010), Thomas Schelling (2005) Vernon Smith (2002) and Oliver Williamson (2009).
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An academic report published by the London School of Economics (LSE) called “Ending the Drug Wars” pointed to violence in Afghanistan, Latin America and other regions as evidence of the need for a new approach.
“It is time to end the ‘war on drugs’ and massively redirect resources towards effective evidence-based policies underpinned by rigorous economic analysis,” they said in a foreword to the report.
“The pursuit of a militarised and enforcement-led global ‘war on drugs’ strategy has produced enormous negative outcomes and collateral damage.”
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The report was signed by George Shultz, the U.S. secretary of state under Ronald Reagan, British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, and former NATO and E.U. foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
It was also signed by Nobel economics prize winners Kenneth Arrow (1972), Christopher Pissarides (2010), Thomas Schelling (2005) Vernon Smith (2002) and Oliver Williamson (2009).
continued....http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/06/group-of-nobel-prize-winners-warns-the-war-on-drugs-has-failed/