Yesterday in the week United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in which more than 100 subject matter experts drugs and state representatives to create international drug control strategy and recommend measures to combat the world drug problem.

Delegates from member countries space to express one’s position around the fight against drugs. USA stated that his current priority is fentanyl and synthetic drugs, which could become a global threat. Bolivia and Colombia they asked to berelease coca leaf from the list of prohibited substances.

Commission No. 66, which is taking place in Vienna, began on March 13 with a speech by Miguel Ruiz Blanco, President of the Commission, in which he stressed that the current strategy to combat the drug problem requires many resources and it left thousands of deaths and casualties, and yet “the belief persists that the war on drugs is lost.”

The UN has indicated that the war on drugs failedbecause consumption has not decreased, and the number of prisoners continues to grow around the world.

At the first session, they presented strategies for the future and break with past tactics that didn’t work. Among these new forms are proposed abolition of the death penalty for drug-related crimes, shared responsibility with a multilateral and regional approach, inclusion of a gender perspective, and reaffirmation of the fight against drug trafficking and supply and demand reduction.