THE GLOBAL Commission on Drug Policy was born from the recognition that the prohibitionist and repressive “war on drugs,” which has persisted for the past 50 years, has failed. Drugs have always existed and have existed everywhere, and it is illusory to believe that their use can be eradicated completely, particularly through violent methods.
Category: War on Drugs
Duterte’s war on drugs by Carlos Borromeo
The victims of the depravities of drug-crazed killers and rapists likewise experience the same feeling of being deprived of due process whenever they recall images of their brutally raped and murdered loved ones and see the drug dealers and users who had been responsible still walking free anf victimizing more helpless people.
Kill list: 2,500 dead
THE NUMBER of persons killed in connection with the government war on illegal drugs has breached the 2,500 mark in just two months of the Duterte administration.