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The Global Coalition for Alternatives to the Drug War
Declaration
We, the undersigned, having recognized the extrordinary damage being caused
by the Drug War, join together in a call for wide-ranging and honest
international and intranational discussion about the effectiveness and consequences
of current, force-based drug policies. Furthermore, we call upon our governments
and fellow citizens to begin the process of the exploration of alternative solutions
to the issues that these policies are claimed to address. This process should
include, but not to be limited to, a revision of the United Nations conventions and other
international treaties which inhibit nations from adopting such alternatives.
We believe that in an atmosphere of honest and rational examination, effective policies can be found which are based
not upon force, repression, prohibition, coercive government action and the
use of violence, but on the universal principles of human rights, freedom,
justice, equality under the law, the dignity of the individual, the health of
people and communities, and the sovereignty of nations.
It should be noted that this coalition represents a very broad range of political and social viewpoints,
and a wide variety of issue-interests. The heterogeneity of the signatories to
this coalition is evidence of both the intellectual strength of our position and the
breadth of the destruction being wrought by current policies. For despite our differences,
we stand together in the knowledge that a policy which mandates a continuous state of war,
in the absence of a true acknowledgement and assessment of the consequences and
excesses of that war, is objectively flawed. And that such a policy is in direct
contradiction to the mission and the ideals of the United Nations, and of the peoples of the earth.
No society, whether local or global, can long endure under the perpetual state of war.
Nor do we choose to leave as a legacy to our children, and to future generations,
the disastrous results of such a policy. It is time to find alternatives.
To learn more about this declaration or to sign up with the coalition please visit their site at:
www.stopthedrugwar.org
or click the link here:
Stop the Drug War
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