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Sunday, 15 June 2014

Obasanjo wants drugs removed from crime list

Nigeria's former president, Olusegun Obasanjo who is the Chairman of West Africa Commission on Drugs has called on the region's governments to decriminalize drugs.

Hear baba:

“We call on West African governments to reform drug laws and policies and decriminalize low-level and non-violent drug offences,”



"...the scale of the cocaine trade “alone through West Africa (estimated at $1.25bn) dwarfs” the combined state budgets of several countries in the region."

“West Africa is no longer just a transit zone for drugs arriving from South America and ending up in Europe, but has become a significant zone of consumption and production.

“The glaring absence of treatment facilities for drug users fuels the spread of disease and exposes an entire generation, users and non-users alike, to growing public health risks.”

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