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Many activists, NGOs and protestors refuse to go in the building and instead camp outside the UN in New York, for the 2016 UNGASS conference about the War on Drugs!

Not only, because UN is a difficult place to get in at the best of times, but because they see it as futile, as many of the key decisions are already made, like the continued adoption of the prohibitionist stance, which was adopted on day one, without any discussion or voting!. This maintains policies that criminalise non-medical or scientific drug use, when the whole world has for many years been crying for an end to the war on drugs and the war on people that use drugs.

Franklin from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (Leap) Interview by Hemp Author Doug Fine Outside UNGASS 2016 in New York.

Doug Fine and the Tamautas shamans at UNGASS 2016 at the United Nations in New York, Chew The Coca Leaf.

Its up to you New York!

Students Against the Drug War. “No More Drug War”

#UNGASS2016 #UNGASS #UN #WarOnDrugs #druglaw #FreedomToFarm #NewYork #LEAP #PROHIBITION #CocaLeaf #Tamautas #DougFine #UnitedNations #ChewTheLeaf

In October 2001, the U.S. launched its invasion of Afghanistan largely through proxy Afghan fighters with the help of Special Operations forces, American air power, and CIA dollars. The results were swift and stunning. The Taliban was whipped, a new government headed by Hamid Karzai soon installed in Kabul, and the country declared “liberated.”

An online memorial to show support has been opened here.

ANTWERP – On Friday, March 18th, 2016 Joep Oomen has unexpectedly passed away in his home in Antwerp, Belgium. As an activist he has fought for over a quarter of a century for humane and just drug policies and an end to the war on drugs. Joep was co-founder of numerous NGO’s for drug reform, including Encod, Cannabis Social Club Trekt Uw Plant in Antwerp and the Union for the abolition of cannabis prohibiton (VOC) in the Netherlands.