Regulate: ex-world leaders' solution to 'failed' drug war


  • World
  • Monday, 24 Sep 2018

FILE PHOTO: UNDP Director Helen Clark speaks during the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - More governments should turn away from a repressive war on drugs that has "failed" and look to proven strategies to implement regulated markets for risky substances, a group of former presidents and leaders said in a report published Monday.

Since the group that includes 12 former heads of state began advocating for an end to drug prohibition in 2011, a growing number of countries and U.S. states have created medical or recreational markets for marijuana.

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