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Head of Virgin Group, Richard Branson, together with the Global Commission on Drug Policy, released a new study proving the failure of the war on drugs has far reaching negative consequences, including the spread of HIV.
"The report condemns the drug war as a failure and recommends immediate, major reforms of the global drug prohibition regime to halt the spread of HIV infection and other drug war harms," read the GCDP press release written by six former presidents and other world leaders.
The billionaire social entrepreneur and drug legalization advocate, Branson, wrote on his blog that the drug war is the "greatest failure of global policy" in four decades:
As an entrepreneur, if one of my businesses is failing year after year I’d close it down or change tack - I would not wait 40 years. The war on drugs is perhaps the greatest failure of global policy in the last 40 years...Branson also explains his recent activism against drug prohibition, "I had long thought that the war on drugs did more harm than good – as with the prohibition of alcohol in the United States had done in the 1920s."
He and the commission are "urging governments worldwide to treat drug use as a health issue and not a criminal issue."
Here is Branson speaking to the Drug Policy Institute about his work with the commission and the successes in Portugal after their decriminalization of drugs:
The new study titled The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS: How the Criminalization of Drug Use Fuels the Global Pandemic details and graphs the many ways that forcing drug users into the shadows increases HIV/AIDS transmission.
The report also emphasizes the undeniable fact that billions of dollars are spent and thousands of people are killed each year in the war on drugs, yet consumption has never decreased. By all stated objectives, the drug war has failed.
The GCDP announced their findings at a London press conference yesterday:
Read the study:
http://globalcommissionondrugs.org/wp-content/themes/gcdp_v1/pdf/GCDP_HIV-AIDS_2012_REFERENCE.pdf
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Another massive hoax. Prohibition maintains a high price and guess who benefits from the billions coming in. The governments....going back to the invasion of China by England to control the opium.
The Clinton woman put it succinctly in public, when asked if drugs should be legalised....'Good heavens no...too much money in it' Double-edged sword. Win-win for govt. Put the little man in jail. Support the prison industry and keep the price up..........
Any war that the American Government starts has worked wonders for their elites pockets. I call that a win.
For the big, US drug money laundering banks, it's a resounding success. Who's Uncle Sam's daddy? The banks.
Even the Wall Street Journal is writing about the bank's addiction to drug money.
There's your motive.
Ummm...it sure is a coincidence that David Icke looks exactly like "Sir"Richard Branson.
Since DallasGoldbug started pointing this out Icke now combs his hair forward like Moe from the 3 stooges.
The 40 yeard drug war was fantastic for the black ops budgets for the UN agenda and police state and the bribes.But I suggest anyone who is willing to look at the Queen's pally boy "Sir"Richard and that both Icke and his son look exactly like Branson and HIS son! What a coincidence! Check im out ! David Icke is Sir Richard Branson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJpvosEpslk
Remember a whole slew of smacked out punk rockers hitting the states back in the mid 1980s? Branson's Virgin records. The U.S. and British governments have been subsidizing and government individuals in on it have been profitting from the importation of 90% of the hard drugs in the U.S. and Britain. Bush's Skull and Bones crew has been running opium into the U.S. and China for near 200 years or more.There NEVER has been an honest war on drugs. The new DEA chief is retarded and it shows in senate hearing responses. Free the weed and hang heroine and cocaine dealers.
All the "war on drugs" is meant to do is keep away the Competition in the drug trade of the CIA, which was CAUGHT with doing it with Iran/Contra and has upped it to finance their covert operations.
Too bad that the previous posters of comments only represent a small minority that is aware that the "war on drugs" was a deliberate hoax, to benefit the ruling elites the most.
The majority of that war is against marijuana. All the rest combined are relatively minor compared to that. Nobody gets AIDS from marijuana.
Pot prohibition is the single simplest symbol, and the most extreme example of the general pattern of social facts. It is is BECAUSE cannabis is the best plant on the planet for people, for food, fiber, fun and medicine, that the laws assert that "marijuana is almost as bad as murder." Recall that the first American flag, and the Bill of Rights, were both made of hemp! Hemp truth is like 9/11 truth, or any other the other radical truths. Society is being controlled by the people who are the best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence. The international banksters are at the center of that spider's web of deceit and destruction. They skim the cream of the profits off of illegal drugs. Their fascist plutocracy needs a fascist police state to protect itself. The "war on drugs" was another set of good excuses to build a bigger and better fascist police state system! The "war on drugs" is ONLY a failure if you listen to and believe the hypocrisy spouted about what that war was supposed to do. That war was a great success at doing what it was really intended to do!
The oldest book on the methods of war stated that success in war was based on deceit. A few thousand years later, the only difference is that has been amplified to astronomically larger sizes!
Unfortunately, World War Three and the psychotic breakdown of civilization are more probable than an end to the "war on drugs." The established systems of huge lies, backed up by lots of violence, are out of control, since the tiny groups that benefit continue to get more wealthy and powerful from doing that, while the majority of people continue being mainstream morons, and brain dead sheep. The middle class has been duped to vote for its own destruction in every way one looks at it, including their deluded support for the "war on drugs."
Spot-on!!!! Blair.T.Longley
In Malaysia drugs are confiscated by the police, people are put in jail, released, and the drugs are put back in the market.....Draw your own conclusions from that!
Richard Branson wise up! Tell the truth you minion...there never was a war on drugs, it's a total scam as others here have indicated....there is only a war on drug users, and that's all....
One of the main reasons mj is still illegal is its tremendous potential as medicine. Drug companies have been trying for over 70 years (since it was made illegal in 1937) to make drugs out of it, but they were unable to separate the "high" (which just means feeling extremely happy) from the drug effects they wanted, like relief of pain and muscle spasms, control of glaucoma, nausea and anorexia, etc. The majority of the sponsors of Partnership for a Drug-free America, which recently changed its name to The Partnership@ drugfree.org, are pharmaceutical companies. They would lose billions of dollars in drug sales if marijuana were legal. Google Carl Sagan marijuana for his insightful views on the herb. Also check out Jack Herer's fact-filled book "The Emperor wears no Clothes", and the 1942 film made by the USDA, "Hemp for Victory", encouraging farmers to grow hemp for the war effort. "Popular Mechanics" in 1938 predicted hemp would be a billion dollar crop, useful for everything (if it hadn't been made illegal in 1937, coincidentally (or not) the same year DuPont patented nylon.) Everything that is now made out of nylon used to be made out of hemp, the strongest natural fiber in the world.
War on Drugs-A full circle money making scheme that profits:
The drug cartels, court system, legal representation, for profit incarceration,
banking money laundering and law enforcement
on the take.
Having read or viewed(or attempted to) various
articles or documentaries on the Opium Wars
or The British (East India) Trading Co. in the
1700-1800's has jilted my mind to believe that
our government is such a corporation and we(the public) are now the Chinese or people of India
from that era of time.
The War on Drugs was always a farce. The CIA runs drugs and our military in Afghanistan are guarding the poppy fields. Only people who are not aware of FACTS still believe in this insanity. Liken the War on Drugs to the DHS being created after 9/11. It created and grew government costing untold billions each year to the taxpayers. The next time Republicans tell you the government cannot create jobs - remind them of DHS and the War on Drugs.
It didn't fail. The war on drugs was a war on the drugs being grown/made and sold by anyone not under the control of the CIA. They use drug money for their black ops projects.
Not only is the war on drugs a farce but with all the technology gadgets that the "big brother" boasts about, and such like those ones that probe Mars and other planets yet they have not been able to catch those people responsible for such a dangerous occupation as manufacturing illegal drugs on the planet.
Read this and tell everyone. Our polticians knows the score. They know the CIA sells drugs in the USA. They do this to fund theor nefarious activities. WTF are we supposed to do with that? If there was a war they would go to Colombia and destroy the cocaine trade there. DOn't they raid the meth labs in the USA? If you were manufacturing cocaine in Mexico and competing with the CIA cocaine they would bust you. Branson thinks legalizing drugs making them cheap will do it. SUre Branson make drugs cheaper and legal. Good call buddy. How about you Branson say if the CIA would quit selling the shite it might help.
There was a war on the KKK, the mafia and of course a war against Germany and Japan and looks like the cocaine is manufactured in two countries and would be a lot easier than blowing up two countries. So you have people calling to legalize it. Would cheaper drugs cause people to use less?
It's amazing with all the lies about drugs with NOriega, Iran/contra, Barry Seal, and the Mena Arkansas airport where they were dumping the drugs and killed many. But they know many know and they don't care. They only care if rock singers or high profile people say anything. The best thing the people could do for the world is try to undermine this country and bring it down, because this country, Russia and China could truly use the world as a play pen. Currently only the USA is doing and if Russia gets tired of our lies trying to create a system to make their missiles useless and they really want us out of there it could get interesting.
All it is a system of tearing down and destroying what people have built over the hundreds of years. It appears they are going to destroy Iran where civilization started.
Branson is a coke snorting piece of garbage. He wants it legal so he'll spend less. I've done plenty and even though it costs a lot of money billionairs can afford the blow
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