Changing the frame : Changer le cadre : une nouvelle approache des politiques sur les drogues au Canada

The Wrong “Solution” The use of the criminal law—the “war on drugs” or “prohibitionist” approach —is too often the wrong means to reduce the harms associated with the production, sale and possession of currently illegal drugs. [...] Report 15 7. Increases the Risk of Disease in the Prison Environment The availability of illegal drugs in prisons, the lack of access to clean » The inflated drug prices caused by equipment, the incentive to use the illegal market drive some people drugs to cope with the harsh prison who use drugs to criminal activity environment and the mental illnesses to support their use. [...] Report 17 The Global Commission on Drug Policy set out principles for reform in its 2011 report: End the criminalization, marginalization and stigmatization of people who use drugs but who do no harm to others… Encourage experimentation by governments with models of legal regulation of drugs to undermine the power of organized crime and safeguard the health and security of their citizens… Offer he [...] Respect the human rights of people who use drugs… Apply much the same principles and policies stated above to people involved in the lower ends of illegal drug markets, such as farmers, couriers and petty sellers… Arresting and incarcerating tens of millions of these people in recent decades has filled prisons and destroyed lives and families without reducing the availability of illicit drugs or t [...] The CDPC sees the reduction of harm to individu- als, families and communities as the fundamental goal of drug policy and the standard against which all drug policies should be evaluated.