The UN's global war on drugs has been a failure, according to a report

The report says that the United Nations efforts to eliminate the illicit drug market by 2019 through a "war on drugs" approach have had little effect on the world. global supply while having adverse effects on health, human rights, security and development.

IDPC, a network of 177 national and international NGOs involved in drug and drug abuse policy, urges the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV / AIDS to consider a different approach to the narcotics strategy for the next 10 years, with a view to the month of March. Summit 2019 in Vienna, Austria.

"This report is another nail in the coffin for the war on drugs," said Ann Fordham, executive director of IDPC, in a statement. "The fact that governments and the United Nations do not consider it appropriate to properly assess the disastrous impact of the last ten years of drug policy is not surprising."

The UN was not immediately available to comment on the report, which was made public Sunday.

"Governments will meet next March at the UN and will probably adopt a similar drug policy.It would be a blatant breach of duty and a recipe for more bloodshed in the name of drug control." .

In addition to fueling violence, the current policy of criminalizing drug use has also resulted in massive incarceration, the report said. One in five inmates are currently incarcerated for drug-related offenses, many for possession for personal purposes.

The report also states that 33 jurisdictions maintain the death penalty for drug-related offenses, in violation of international standards. However, in March, US President Donald Trump proposed to make drug trafficking a major offense in response to the current opioid crisis in the country.

"What we learn from IDPC's shadow report is convincing: Since governments started collecting data on drugs in the 1990s, culture, consumption and illicit drug trafficking have reached record, "said Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand. member of the World Commission on Drug Policy, in the foreword to the report.

"In addition, current drug policies are a serious impediment to achieving other social and economic goals, and the" war on drugs "has resulted in the death, disappearance or displacement of millions of people. people."

Last week, Canada became the first country in the G7 industrialized group to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.