Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - 06:32
The Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Centre writes: The criminalization of the sale and consumption of certain substances, under the model known internationally as ‘the war on drugs’, has been increasingly criticized in a variety of global forums due to its evident failure as a strategy to end the use and abuse of prohibited substances, as well as its impact in filling prisons with people accused of non-violent crimes.
