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November 29, 2011  |  By ENCOD In Uncategorized

LA GUERRA A LAS DROGAS HA FRACASADO – ES TIEMPO PARA UN NUEVO ENFOQUE

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LA GUERRA A LAS DROGAS HA FRACASADO

ES TIEMPO PARA UN NUEVO ENFOQUE

Cámara de los Lores, Londres

17 de noviembre de 2011

NOSOTROS, LOS ABAJO FIRMANTES, llamamos a los miembros del público y de los Parlamentos para que reconozcan que: –


Cincuenta años después de lanzarse la Convención Única sobre Estupefacientes de 1961 la guerra global contra las drogas ha fracasado, y ha tenido muchas consecuencias imprevistas y devastadoras en todo el mundo.

El uso de las principales drogas controladas ha aumentado, y la oferta es más barata, más pura y más disponible que nunca. La estimación conservadora de la ONU es que en la actualidad hay 250 millones de consumidores de drogas en todo el mundo.

Las drogas ilícitas son ahora la tercera industria más valiosa del mundo, después de los alimentos y el petróleo. Se estima en 450 mil millones $ al año, todos bajo el control de criminales.

La guerra contra las drogas cuesta a los contribuyentes del mundo montos incalculables cada año. Se estima que 10 millones de personas están en prisión en todo el mundo por delitos relacionados con las drogas, en su mayoría “pececitos” – consumidores y distribuidores de pequeña escala.

La corrupción entre los encargados de hacer cumplir la ley y entre los políticos, especialmente en los países productores y de tránsito, se ha extendido como nunca antes, poniendo en peligro la democracia y la sociedad civil.

La estabilidad, la seguridad y el desarrollo están amenazados por las consecuencias de la guerra contra las drogas, como es el caso de los derechos humanos. Decenas de miles de personas mueren en la guerra contra las drogas cada año.

El mundo “libre de drogas” anunciado con tanta confianza por los partidarios de la guerra contra las drogas está más inalcanzable que nunca. Las políticas de prohibición crean más daño de lo que previenen. Debemos considerar seriamente el desvío de de decenas de millones utilizados para criminalizar a ciudadanos respetuosos de la ley y por lo contrario, avanzar hacia un enfoque basado en la salud, la reducción de daños, la eficacia y el respeto a los derechos humanos. La realidad demuestra consistentemente que los enfoques basados en la salud ofrecen mejores resultados que la criminalización.

El mejoramiento de nuestras políticas de drogas es uno de los retos de la política de nuestro tiempo.

Es tiempo para que los líderes mundiales pasan a una profunda revisión de sus estrategias en respuesta a este fenómeno. Eso es lo que la Comisión Mundial sobre Políticas de Drogas, dirigida por cuatro ex presidentes, por Kofi Annan y por otros líderes mundiales, ha hecho con valentía, con su informe innovador, presentado por primera vez en Nueva York en junio, y ahora en la Cámara de los Lores el 17 de noviembre.

A raíz de las políticas actuales se encuentra la Convención Única sobre Estupefacientes de 1961. Es hora de volver a examinar este tratado. Un documento titulado “Reescribir las convenciones sobre drogas de la ONU” ha sido recientemente publicado a fines de mostrar cómo las enmiendas de los convenios podrían permitir a los países individuales la libertad de explorar políticas de drogas que mejor se adapten a sus necesidades internas, en lugar de tratar de imponer la actual solución “talla única para todos”.

Ya que no podemos erradicar la producción, la demanda o el consumo de drogas, debemos encontrar nuevas maneras de minimizar los daños. Debemos apoyar a nuestros gobiernos para explorar nuevas políticas basadas en la evidencia científica.

Le saludan atentamente,

Los firmantes de esta carta pública

President Jimmy Carter
Former President of the United States, Nobel Prize winner

President Fernando H. Cardoso
Former President of Brazil

President César Gaviria
Former President of Colombia

President Vicente Fox
Former President of Mexico

President Ruth Dreifuss
Former President of Switzerland

President Lech Wałęsa
Former President of Poland, Nobel Prize winner.

President Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Former President of Poland

George P. Schultz
Former US Secretary of State

Jaswant Singh
Former Minister of Defence, of Finance, and for External Affairs, India

Professor Lord Piot
Former UN Under Secretary-General

Louise Arbour, CC, GOQ
Former UN High-Commissioner for Human Rights

Carel Edwards
Former Head of the EU Commission’s Drug Policy Unit

Javier Solana, KOGF, KCMG
Former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy

Thorvald Stoltenberg
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Gary Johnson
Republican US Presidential Candidate

Professor Sir Harold Kroto
Chemist, Nobel Prize winner

Dr. Kary Mullis
Chemist, Nobel Prize winner

Professor John Polanyi
Chemist, Nobel Prize winner

Professor Kenneth Arrow
Economist, Nobel Prize winner

Professor Thomas C. Schelling
Economist, Nobel Prize winner

Professor Sir Peter Mansfield
Economist, Nobel Prize winner

Professor Sir Anthony Leggett
Physicist, Nobel Prize winner

Professor Martin L. Perl
Physicist, Nobel Prize winner

Mario Vargas Llosa
Writer, Nobel Prize winner

Wisława Szymborska
Poet, Nobel Prize winner

Professor Sir Ian Gilmore
Former President of the Royal College of Physicians

Professor Robert Lechler
Dean of School of Medicine, KCL

Professor A. C. Grayling
Master of the New College of the Humanities

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta
Professor of Economics at Cambridge

Asma Jahangir
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary, Extrajudicial and Summary Execution

Dr. Muhammed Abdul Bari, MBE
Former Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain

Professor Noam Chomsky
Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT

Carlos Fuentes
Novelist and essayist

Sir Richard Branson
Entrepreneur and Founder of the Virgin Group

John Whitehead
Chair of the WTC Memorial Foundation

Maria Cattaui
Former Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Commerce

Nicholas Green, QC
Former Chairman of the Bar Council

Professor David Nutt
Former Chair of the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs

Professor Trevor Robbins
Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge

Professor Niall Ferguson
Professor of History at Harvard University

Professor Peter Singer
Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University

Professor Jonathan Wolff
Professor of Philosophy at UCL

Professor Robin Room
School of Population Health, University of Melbourne

Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
Former Editor of The Sunday Telegraph

Dr. Jan Wiarda
Former President of European Police Chiefs

Sting
Musician and actor

Yoko Ono
Musician and artist

Sean Parker
Founding President of Facebook, Director of Spotify

Bernardo Bertolucci
Film Director

Gilberto Gil
Musician, former Minister of Culture, Brazil

John Perry Barlow
Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tom Lloyd
Former Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire

Bob Ainsworth, MP
Former UK Secretary of State for Defence

Peter Lilley, MP
Former Secretary of State for Social Security

Tom Brake, MP

Dr. Julian Huppert, MP

Caroline Lucas, MP

Paul Flynn, MP

Dr. Patrick Aeberhard
Former President of Doctors of the World

Lord Mancroft
Chair of the Drug and Alcohol Foundation

General Lord Ramsbotham
Former HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

Lord Rees, OM
Astronomer Royal and former President of the Royal Society

Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss
Director of the Beckley Foundation

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