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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 the 16 Nobel Laureates who contributed to the recently published Global Initiative for Drug Policy Reform. She outlines why they consider the War on Drugs has been an abysmal failure and what some of the progressive alternatives could be. She shares with listeners her reasons for establishing the Beckley Foundation and the public hysteria that is generated every time it is proposed to stop treating adults as children. She explains why the United Nations has become part of the problem, rather than part of the solution and how the criminal justice is being used in many parts of the western world to perpetuate and sustain a class war. Their main allies in this struggle are a discredited media and a compromised scientific community. She likens this state of affairs to one where the cure does more harm than the illness, and both mainly the responsibility of doctors.
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For more information please visit:
http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/2011/04/03/the-global-initiative-for-drug-policy-reform/
http://www.reformdrugpolicy.org
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/13/drugs-cameron
