UN Expert Calls for an End to the Failed US-Led Global “War on Drugs”
The global “war on drugs” led by the United States has been a costly and destructive failure that must be terminated and replaced by an approach focused on harm-reduction, an independent United Nations expert said Monday. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on the right to health, wrote in a report delivered to the Human Rights Council that since the 1970s, the global drug war has...