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Jul. 29., 2025 | 12:43 am
https://www.unodc.org/documents/ungass2
Supporters of Decriminalization
World Health Organization: “Countries should work toward developing policies and laws that decriminalize injection and other use of drugs and, thereby, reduce incarceration. Countries should work toward developing policies and laws that decriminalize the use of clean needles and syringes.... Countries should ban compulsory treatment for people who use and/or inject drugs.”
American Public Health Association: “[E]liminate federal and state criminal penalties and collateral sanctions for personal drug use and possession offenses and avoid unduly harsh administrative penalties, such as civil asset forfeiture.”
Organization of American States: “Decriminalization of drug use needs to be considered as a core element in any public health strategy.”
Human Rights Watch: “Drug control policies that impose criminal penalties for personal drug use undermine basic human rights… Subjecting people to criminal sanctions for the personal use of drugs, or for possession of drugs for personal use, infringes on their autonomy and right to privacy… The criminalization of drug use has undermined the right to health… [G]overnments should rely instead on nonpenal regulatory and public health policies.”
NAACP: “The U.S. government [should] pilot the Portugal Decriminalization program in three U.S. cities and apply the lessons learned… throughout the United States.”
National Latino Congreso: “[T]he 2010 National Latino Congreso…urge[s] state and federal governments to follow the successful example of countries like Portugal that have decriminalized personal adult possession and use of all drugs, which has improved the health of drug users, reduced incarceration
Supporters of Decriminalization
World Health Organization: “Countries should work toward developing policies and laws that decriminalize injection and other use of drugs and, thereby, reduce incarceration. Countries should work toward developing policies and laws that decriminalize the use of clean needles and syringes.... Countries should ban compulsory treatment for people who use and/or inject drugs.”
American Public Health Association: “[E]liminate federal and state criminal penalties and collateral sanctions for personal drug use and possession offenses and avoid unduly harsh administrative penalties, such as civil asset forfeiture.”
Organization of American States: “Decriminalization of drug use needs to be considered as a core element in any public health strategy.”
Human Rights Watch: “Drug control policies that impose criminal penalties for personal drug use undermine basic human rights… Subjecting people to criminal sanctions for the personal use of drugs, or for possession of drugs for personal use, infringes on their autonomy and right to privacy… The criminalization of drug use has undermined the right to health… [G]overnments should rely instead on nonpenal regulatory and public health policies.”
NAACP: “The U.S. government [should] pilot the Portugal Decriminalization program in three U.S. cities and apply the lessons learned… throughout the United States.”
National Latino Congreso: “[T]he 2010 National Latino Congreso…urge[s] state and federal governments to follow the successful example of countries like Portugal that have decriminalized personal adult possession and use of all drugs, which has improved the health of drug users, reduced incarceration