Petition the UN to End the Drug War

This week sees the largest group of politicians and celebrities to date petition the UN to urge nations to take a new approach the drug laws. The petition just broke it’s target of 500,000 as I posted this, which is amazing news.

from The Guardian:

Those backing the call include Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico; George Papandreou, former prime minister of Greece; César Gaviria, former president of Colombia; Kofi Annan, former UN secretary general; Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil; George Shultz, former US secretary of state; Javier Solana, former EU high representative; Virgin tycoon Richard Branson; and Paul Volcker, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve.

The global advocacy organisation Avaaz, which has nine million members, will present a petition in support of the commission’s recommendations to UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon.

Danny Kushlick, head of external affairs at Transform, the drug policy foundation that has consultative status with the UN, said current events, such as the cartel-related violence in Mexico, President Barack Obama’s comments that it was “perfectly legitimate” to question whether the war on drugs was working, and the wider global economic crisis, had given calls for a comprehensive overhaul of the world’s drugs policy a fresh impetus.

This one of the biggest step forward since I joined the fight, so I am rather excited to see the out come. Hopefully this will be hitting media outlets around the country in the next few days, so the message can be spread.

Sign the petition at avaaz.org/en/end_the_war_on_drugs/

It’s time to change the law.