“Helen Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Program, has publicly slammed global strategies to combat drugs, claiming there is increasing evidence that ‘the war on drugs’ has failed. The former prime minister of New Zealand urged Latin American leaders to develop new policies to tackle drugs, which she says should be addressed as a public health problem rather than criminalized.”
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/15/un_development_chief_slams_war_on_drugs_partner/
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