Ghana Police up to the task in the drug war

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• Malcolm Kyle 10 years ago

  Prohibition has finally run its course; the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, users and non-users worldwide, have been destroyed or severely disrupted; many countries that were once shining beacons of l ...
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  Prohibition has finally run its course; the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, users and non-users worldwide, have been destroyed or severely disrupted; many countries that were once shining beacons of liberty and prosperity have, through scientific ignorance and blind political fanaticism, become repressive smoldering heaps of toxic hypocrisy and a gross affront to fundamental human decency. It is now the duty of every last one of us to insure that the people who are responsible for this shameful situation are not simply left in peace to enjoy the wealth and status that their despicable actions have, until now, afforded them. Former and present Prohibitionists should not be allowed to remain untainted or untouched by the unconscionable acts that they have viciously committed on their fellow human beings. They have provided us with neither safe communities nor safe streets. We should provide them with neither a safe haven to enjoy their ill-gotten gains nor the liberty to repeat such a similar atrocity.

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• Malcolm Kyle 10 years ago

  The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has very recently recommended the decriminalization of possession and use of all drugs. This follows a withering critique of the negative impacts of the war on drugs on hu ...
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  The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has very recently recommended the decriminalization of possession and use of all drugs. This follows a withering critique of the negative impacts of the war on drugs on human rights across the world.
  
  Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General.
  
  Advance Edited Version, 4 September 2015:
  
  25. The Special Rapporteur has observed that criminalizing drug use and possession has led to risky forms of drug use designed to evade criminal prohibitions, which has in turn resulted in increased health risks for drug users. Risky forms of drug use may include the sharing of syringes and injection supplies, hurried or risky injecting and the use of drugs in unsafe places. The preparation of drugs in a hurry, to avoid detection by law enforcement officers, may increase the risk of overdose, vascular accidents and infections. The Special Rapporteur has noted that criminalizing drug use and possession may lead to an increased risk of illness, including from HIV infection, among people who use drugs (see A/65/255, paras. 25-26).
  
  29. The Special Rapporteur has identified many ways in which criminalizing drug use and possession impedes the achievement of the right to health. He has called for the decriminalization of drug use and possession as an important step towards fulfilling the right to health. He has noted that decriminalizing drug use cannot be equated with legalizing it. Decriminalization means that drug use and possession remain legally prohibited but that criminal penalties, if they are applied at all, are minor and of a noncustodial nature. Legalization, by contrast, involves no prohibition of the relevant conduct. (see A/65/255, para. 62).

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• asante 10 years ago

  so long as nigerians are leaving in Ghana all kind os drugs will be in abundance.compare drug issues now and b4 wen nigerians were not many in ghana.

  so long as nigerians are leaving in Ghana all kind os drugs will be in abundance.compare drug issues now and b4 wen nigerians were not many in ghana.

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• Abeiku SW2 London 10 years ago

  No u are not .... not when the drugs go missing after its been seized especially the hard drugs

  No u are not .... not when the drugs go missing after its been seized especially the hard drugs

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