World Leaders Call for Ending Drug War

World Leaders Call for Ending Drug War – www.mpp.org blog.mpp.org MPP’s Robert Capecchi talks about the Global Commision on Drug Policy report on FOX9 in the Twin Cities. —– *** From the executive summary of the report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy: The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and 40 years after President Nixon launched the US government’s war on drugs, fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed. Vast expenditures on criminalization and repressive measures directed at producers, traffickers and consumers of illegal drugs have clearly failed to effectively curtail supply or consumption. Apparent victories in eliminating one source or trafficking organization are negated almost instantly by the emergence of other sources and traffickers. Repressive efforts directed at consumers impede public health measures to reduce HIV/AIDS, overdose fatalities and other harmful consequences of drug use. Government expenditures on futile supply reduction strategies and incarceration displace more cost-effective and evidence-based investments in demand and harm reduction. GLOBAL COMMISSION ON DRUG POLICY COMMISSIONERS Asma Jahangir, human rights activist, former UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary, Extrajudicial and Summary Executions, Pakistan Carlos Fuentes, writer and public intellectual, Mexico César Gaviria …

Tom Davis, 'SNL' writer, Franken's comedy partner, dies at 59

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Minneapolis native Tom Davis, the longtime stand-up comedy partner of Al Franken and a writer who created many of the most memorable sketches on "Saturday Night Live," including the alien "Coneheads," which he dreamed up while on LSD, died July 19 at …
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