the. somehow united nations is dragged through supports member states in the dealing was a real drug problem i would not use it warm warm dry because it has never been used within the united nations context but at the same time we have to bear in mind that . just in to soudan 17. $170000000.00 people have used drugs or what was wrote which is more or less stable statistics got better but areas year as there is a slow growth but this gross is proportionate to the growth of the road population it means that the situation is dramatic but notice that a metric as it is presented by some. media also there are some successes and of course there is

a increase in pres action of all known types of drugs i mean. opiates in afghanistan in latin america synthetic drugs everywhere in the road but this process is a little bit of set but i didn't reason seizures by more efficient work of local floor and force meant to prevent illicit dr rafiq and. that's why the overall statistics. more or less stable says it doesn't what oregon why was legalizing weed you've said that wasn't the answer now sammy or some past larry why has been made legal in canada is spreading across the united states is this legalization wave hindering the work of your organization. i must say that so far the absolute majority of members to. a states but is the

direct control conventions i firmly against legalization of drugs that is their position which has been confirmed recently in march ministerial meeting here in vienna and that will mean the state of media got built at their mini state of the collaboration and the firm has it ever been so full city drug control can then sense actually is there are some exceptions candidate. you're away and some states of the united states but so far this thread is not developing and it's really a storm. controlled substances which is cannabis. does not affect my child the activity is so united nations office of that i was and that i'm always aware following close the these threads was concerned and actually we have notice that in the united states for instance some states where money while his leg allies. didn't it is out in. stopping the black market it

continues to exist that is through so when talking about the drug issue mr good data should ask the sizes prevention and treatment and he was the one who presided over the decriminalization reforms in portugal which are hailed as success does the fact that his secretary general now mean the un stance on drugs will lean towards recommend dick decriminalization or his promoting of the global balanced approach to the role drug problem which come by supply adoption and demand and lawrence was meant treatment today billet deshaun then prevents that is through direct i'm certain that only one in 7 that i do to persons have access to through appropriate medical treatment a global which is of course not appropriate at that stage as far as they came in

there is a sham many countries are promoting decriminalization or raza dippin it is a show of offenses related to the procession of drugs in smoke one to 2 for personal use or some other to admit if true it. but it doesn't mean that we should be more lenient to is the criminals with dr traffickers so a group called the global commission on drug policy which lists kofi are not on and modest member says that punitive policies are only helping crime and it's time for more humane approaches how drug and geos overwhelmingly support this idea leaders of countries that have been hurt by the drug wars are calling for a stop to provide mission is the united nations support for this idea is only a matter of time in 10 years 20 years or never. first of all i have to confess that i am not a resident the great majority of enjoys are supporting this approach. to meeting

with them but regular vienna's a meeting is a joke i made sitting regularly as a year and you know you see that water. sometimes when i meet with. among themselves even more than it was me a great majority of n.g.o.s also opposed to attempts to legalize drugs but is always happens the majority is more silence in the minority. so what do you say to the argument that legalizing drug use will hurt the illicit drug mafia more than fighting them it seems to me you are not convinced by this line of thought right why expectations that legalisation of cannabis would reduce the legal market and unfortunately it's confirmed and we'll have more and

more evidence that the. drug market exists expressive the moving drugs to schools to other places where they should not go. so. dr bell's multifaceted criminal organisation. does issue a syringe from one criminal activities to another criminal activities even even to support to terrorism so we must be very careful with that we should understand that . as it is not my opinion this is the opinion of the majority of member states and firmed in many documents adopted in the united nations context that this and the proper lead to believe that the good ization could help to to combat crime it can only benefit criminals. so in forming drug policy should their stories be more concerned with the mafia side of things i mean all the violence

exploitation corruption ties with terrorism or the human health side of things as in preventing epidemics of drug use and the consequences which one. only balance approach can help us of course law enforcement must be supported but is that is not enough the best way of prevention is prevention at the early stage but also treatment ability asian and that integration of drug addicted person into society also very important task of the international community when we come by and boss supply and demanded action when we put in accordance with human rights standards was a core in accordance with international treaties work and hope to succeed. but look at mexico i mean the drug mafia is threatening the functioning of this state itself

the war against drug cartels involves hangs and helicopters but that doesn't deter people from joining the cartels i mean especially if that is the only job on the horizon for them so mexico and countries like mexico will never will against occur tell us unless they fix their economy right. mexico is making huge efforts to combat organized crime declaiming know as you as you call them and . groups as a model to fester to criminal groups dealing doing many types of organized crime including drops of course lisha director africa but also. many french are in some drugs including opioids in mexico. it is a very difficult task. where working with it was or was mexico was an office of you know d.c. supporting mexico. and we believe that only ways it was in the international

reaches international norms were going to come by and fighting organized crime fighting drugs which is more attention to people protecting their rights protecting the rights to health. providing them all necessary support. to recover from drug addiction use there is no demand on drugs there will be no supply it's clear all right mr fidel to we're going to take a short break right now and when we're back we'll continue talking to the huge lot of the executive director of the united nations office on drugs and crime discussing international efforts and fighting drug trafficking and production stay with us.

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it were back was you know to see doctors executive director of the united nations office on drugs and crime talking about fighting the problem of drug abuse and trafficking so this is you know a president trump drug dealing to build a wall on the us mexico border and one of his main arguments is that the war will help calm but drug trafficking can it. my impression was that the wall was mostly destined to to prevent this migration. and fortunes of the.

united states a experience the future crisis as you know although last year there being a very significant decline in the number of deaths road where this event a new another synthetic opioids crisis but still it is one of the major problems of north america and also expanding to other continents whatever could be done to prevent. illicit trafficking but also in this its use of medications or diversion of medication. this could have as a people but once again what is important to provide people with. medical service medical care and prevention efforts they could play a major role we also have an example of profit bishan that works in japan for for instance japan's tough loss enable the government to claim a very low addiction rate do you feel the japanese approach is worth studying and

maybe i mean waiting direct control conventions are flexible and say allow qantas a lot of flexibility is true or to make sure that all measures that they can connect with us through the conventions. of data. better fit for purpose of the national national legislation national conditions national traditions what what waters through the house banishment including a. death penalty is not helping. to prevent the drug use and drug abuse in addition that act of africa and. we don't see any signs that harsh or more moderate punishment is it has a real impact on the flow of the rocks what is important is international cooperation because we're dealing with transnational crime which is so full of

drugs coming from one source tended to remain in contradictions and dig up a distant nation so more and better that british use it is better to deal with the broad drug problem. so whether society should be punitive or tolerance towards drug users is a subject of massive debate but in countries with radical anti-drug oddities there is room for abuse of tough drug laws for instance just recently our journalists russian journalists evangel north whom the police tried to frame as a drug dealer how to keep up the fight against drugs with legal tools and not tempt the authorities into be using the system. csound says is that if the rule of law biden's. protection of.

human rights you know cases people have the right. to be protected from all kinds of abuses including flow from law enforcement authorities it is clear. i want to talk a bit about countries like latin america where farmers turn to growing drop crops out of economic interest because nothing else brings them as much money as coca leaves for instance or in afghanistan where people depend on the poppy to survive how do you do tell them to stop growing drugs because well it's really bad but when they have to choose between that and. hunger they always will choose doing that. election america should it is the rest of the major coca produces a lot bureau and what we're doing with have important programs multi 1000000 programs self-supporting in this contest in developing president if livelihoods. in

the cottage and farmers to produce note cocoa but rather. food like. like. like. true trees and many other useful things of course that is less attractive to them but it is more predictable for them for their families for their futures as specialist that if they have lent it will sit difficult state and. as a few more free to to leave and they said to produce legal livelihoods for them for themselves but also for their feminists and would have good examples including here in austria where the local investors will companies buying these sort of products from colombia from pharaoh and selling can euro as far as afghanistan and serve that is another problem we're also trying to be sell food but

unfortunately the overall situation in this country political instability and security. deduces so at best it is true and that's why unfortunately we're seeing unprecedented record level of. opium production unfair and production in afghanistan. and i've heard you say that it's very important to engage the local population in fighting drop production in mafia crime groups are usually behind this business can we expect ordinary folks to get in confrontation with this dangerous people while their families may get killed and their homes may end up burnt. you know i'm traveling to a lot i'm visiting calder's countries including can let in america ever again and. can tell you that speech into local farmers i made a conclusion that moral is. dope. they're going to have to

put up or adoption. ration but they need more support from local authorities they need stable markets for their leases products they need. better infrastructure and there's a need support from big companies. markets if it is done as it is being done and sometimes there are some let america. hope was to be successful operation and we will continue to shrink from illegal legal. so even if you bomb all the poppy and cannabis fields people are using more and more since saturday drugs so chemistry has taken over nature in this field harder to detect easier to make arson tatic drugs more of a danger to society is than those which have to be grown 1st. and that is true unfortunately there were several real crisis meant if it's i mean crisis and they

share. it's as a scale of financial disaster encounter just like malaysia. neighboring countries. even japan would have the problem of you say your substances which a developing so fast that governments and international can is asians do not have enough time to cater to them to put them under international drive money toward internet and troll jet is a real problem in many countries including the russian synthetic drugs becoming more prevalent. there are additional dry places heroin. and opium and morphine so we're early for an existing for and use a corrective substances year in vienna and we're trying to devise cutters on the appearance of the markets of new types of synthetic drugs you know like everything else drugs have also gone through this 21st century change i mean you don't even

have to go to a shady part of town to get drugs anymore there's websites on a dark now for everything these days how does that change the way you work i mean how do you do you what's this relatively new headache. so it is a real headache to not to because date so far as a proportion of the share of this dark net traffic and is not comparable to the overall amount of leisure that our traffic in but it is a growing faster growing. growing gets around and a day carol for it and that means that we need to develop more quickly international cooperation in terms so fable cryer which includes the types of. full use of cyber and not only for their i was but also for other illicit activities that is a sensitive issue gunter is may have different opinions on that but. i

believe it was a goodwill was a spirit of doing this and compromise a quid fine solution as to some type. of cyber crime including the use of cyberspace for illicit director africa as you said so what's more important daily in what the supply chain with poppy fields and coke up plantations or shutting down the marketplaces. borth important of course we need to start from the source but also the traffic and interruption of traffic and is very important we give you one example where facing unprecedented. reason with alteration on production of. opium poppy never again is that the election of opium and heroin is growing but just same time will have less and less. heroin and opium. in those on the route from afghanistan sort of central asia to

russia most of the road was used to transport. 10 percent of all. and heroin but as action in afghanistan now it would be less than one percent and there would be different factors one of them of course is a better international cooperation including consent always better coordination before enforcement activities better efforts to prevention and just one of the good news thank you very much for this interview or talking to you if you do it just for executive director of the united nations office on drugs and crime discussing the air national efforts and combat a truck trafficking and organized crime that's it for this edition so think i'll see you next.

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i'm interested in always in the waters about how this. question. my son doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in a prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are with numbers of people who are in prison for. certain sins for boren or minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in wave and say by day as you're

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