This video by Al Jazeera’s Cath Turner, an independent broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar, shows that forty years after US president Richard Nixon declared a ‘War on Drugs’, the global commission on drug policy declared that the war has been lost.
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Amanda Feilding on Global Solidarity Podcast
Click to download Amanda Feilding on Michael Fitzgerald’s Global Solidarity podcast From nearpodcast.org: Amanda Fielding, Countess of Wemyss of The Beckley Foundation joins Michael FitzGerald on Global Solidarity where she proposes that any discussion of changing drug policy is a taboo subject. We hate taboos here and so proceeded to look at the recommendations by [...]
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