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The time has come for the international community to acknowledge the evidence, call for and deliver evidence-based harm reduction strategies of global scale to reduce HIV and hepatitis C infections, and so protect the health of people who use drugs.

Michel KazatchkineUN Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

This is an issue we’re not going to police our way out of.

The Hon Michael Keenan MPFederal Justice Minister

For too long ideology and ‘tough on crime’ posturing have dominated global and national drug policy debates. It is time to be humble about the mistakes of the past and to embrace a rational and responsible policy on drugs.

George SorosChair, Open Society Foundations

Ultimately this is a choice between control by governments or by gangsters; there is no third option in which drug markets can be made to disappear.

Henrique Fernando Cardosoformer President of Brazil

For social problems like these, law enforcement isn’t the answer. Ice has been on the scene for over a decade and we’ve had a really strong law enforcement approach and it hasn’t resolved the problem. The time’s right now to look at the other options.

Ken LayHead of the National Ice Taskforce, Former Victorian Police Commissioner

Decriminalisation had the desired effect of reducing drug-related arrests, while releasing resources and removing a barrier for problematic users to seek help.

Pavel Bemformer Mayor of Prague

Drug enforcement in one region just leads to the emergence of production and supply in other regions.

Anand Groverformer UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

The only way to think sensibly about drugs is to ensure that we pursue humane and ethical purposes: to keep people alive, allow for differences of view and choices and as far as possible, in every way, reduce the harm associated with drugs.

Margaret Hamilton AOProfessor

As an investment, the war on drugs has failed to deliver any returns. If it were a business, it would have been shut down a long time ago. This is not what success looks like.

Richard Bransonbusinessman

Drug control measures cannot take precedence over health, safety, human welfare and well-being any longer. Our countries have suffered enough. The human costs are too high.

Cesar Gaviriaformer President of Colombia

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