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Who still supports our prohibition strategy in the War on Drugs?
"For a long time, we've been saying that the prohibition strategy of arresting as many people as possible can never lead to a significant reduction in marijuana use," Angell told HuffPost.
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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox August 2010 "We should consider legalising the production, sale and distribution of drugs... Radical prohibition strategies have never worked".
More and more people are challenging 40 years of failed drug prohibition strategies.
A number of drug policy reform advocates have called out the federal government for once again rushing toward prohibition, a strategy that has repeatedly proven more harmful than helpful.
This general approach is called "prohibition", and is the strategy that we have been following in the so-called "war on drugs".
The violence in Mexico has led to an unprecedented debate about the failures of drug prohibition and possible exit strategies from the unwinnable war.
The principal focus of their strategy has been prohibition — of tiger hunting, trading in tiger parts, and consumption of tigers.
From epidemiologists committed to changing our failing strategies on drug prohibition, to frontline workers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and finally to the users themselves, so often misrepresented and ignored; Relapse: Facing Canada's Opioid Crisis is our opportunity to listen to those most affected and continue the conversation as we make our way towards recovery.
"But Colorado and Washington state, where legal sales will also soon begin, certainly won't be the last states to launch an exit strategy out of marijuana prohibition.
There are still only a handful who are willing to call for a true debate on the failures of prohibition and the need for an alternative strategy.
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