WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — World governments at a UN meeting on the global drug problem were urged Tuesday to move away from repression, abolish the death penalty for drug offenses and step up treatment. In the first such meeting in nearly 20 years, the UN General Assembly adopted a document that marks a shift away from the “war on drugs” launched in the 1970s, with its heavy-handed approach centered on law enforcement and criminalization. […]





