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
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 …