method adopted at special session focuses on reform and cooperation between nations but maintains policies that criminalise non-medical or scientific drug use
The ‘war on drugs’ in numbers: a systematic failure of policy
The first United Nations general assembly special session on drugs in almost two decades has approved an agreement that leaves in residence the prohibitionist policies banning narcotics use,despite growing international discontent with the “war on drugs” – and the concerns of the nations that called the meeting. The 2016 general assembly special session – known as UNgass – was scheduled after lobbying by Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia, or countries which own suffered disproportionate violence from narco-trafficking. Leaders of the three countries own called for a more “humane solution” to the drugs problem that goes beyond a focus on enforcement and criminalisation.
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Source: theguardian.com