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UN backs prohibitionist drug policies despite call for more 'humane solution'

Plan adopted at special session focuses on reform and cooperation between nations but maintains policies that criminalise non-medical or scientific drug use

Louise Arbour, a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, outlined the choice now faced by nations determined to do better for their citizens. Countries that want to pursue policies like marijuana legalization, drug decriminalization or heroin-assisted treatment, she said, either have to denounce the international conventions—a “very serious move that could encourage other countries to walk away from other international commitments”—or else, “pretend they’re in compliance, which we know they’re not.”

The UN’s confirmation that countries must continue to work with “this repressive framework” is “a pretty sobering statement for people like me, who have always worked within legal systems,” she said.

She later elaborated to The Influence. “The system is punishing itself.” It’s not that she fears international consequences for countries that enact drug policy reforms, she explained, but a question of a destabilizing threat to the credibility of international law. “If states start cheating at the margins, it erodes the effort to have a cohesive system.”

Under the outcome document for UNGASS that was drafted by diplomats last month in Vienna and formally adopted on Tuesday at UN headquarters in New York, weed still remains strictly banned by the treaties that govern international law. It won't force the US and Uruguay to change their systems, nor will it compel countries like Russia and China to soften their draconian policies.

For members of civil society, the intransigence is a real problem that threatens to undermine the legitimacy of all types of international treaties.

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