Samantha Kumara: Sri Lanka President established anti-drugs taskforce in 2015. Kevin Sabet, Smart Approaches to Marijuana: we have evidence-based cannabis policy that rejects there are only two choices of putting people in prison or legalizing marijuana use. We realizing drug use and dependence is a nuanced issue, and there are different settings of use. There …
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UNGASS Special Segment Day 3 – Interactive discussion on cross-cutting issues: drugs and human rights, youth, women, children and communities
UNODC. Introductory statement. Agenda item 4c relates to the health and human rights, focusing on the need of women, children and youth, who are affected in many ways by drugs and their consequences. UNODC has drawn several conclusions: drug use disorders and their health complications such as HIV, HCV and overdoses are public health issues …
Plenary Day 3: Sri Lanka
Our national control board is very effective in its cooperation with the INCB. South Asia continues to be a transit route for many substances and we welcome the INCB’s call to focus efforts on this areas. Concern about terrorist groups using drug trafficking to finance activities is a big concern. We want total abstinence in …
CND Day 4 – Sri Lanka’s plenary statement on the world situation with regard to drug trafficking
The campaign for the complete abstinence from drugs is the cornerstone of the national strategy. Investigations and intelligence are increasing. Since the early 90s the insurgent group, the LTTE, was involved in trafficking. The weakening of the LTTE has limited these networks though the speaker alleged that there are reports that there is some continued …
Sri Lankan statement on drug demand reduction
We are interested in the rehabilitation and re-integration of drug users into society. We do not treat the drug abuser as a criminal anymore, instead we look at them as people who need treatment. We believe that drug demand does not depend on a biological or phyiscal need, it is simply a psychological dependence. Sri …
Sri Lanka National Speech to HLM
Originally, for us, cannabis was not a social problem, though it was used in medicine after the narcotic element was taken out. But by the mid 1980s it was considered a major social problem and led us to establish the narcotic drug control board. International drug control has just completed a century of activity since …