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Russell Brand gives speech on drugs at United Nations panel
March 20, 2014, 8:18 AM EST
WENN
British comedian Russell Brand gave a speech advocating the decriminalization of drugs at a United Nations panel in Vienna, Austria on Wednesday.
Brand is a recovering drug addict and has famously been vocal about his experiences, appearing on a number of TV programs calling for a change in drug laws. He has now taken his decriminaliztion stance to the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs .
Brand is backing the Support, Don't Punish campaign, which lobbies for addicts to be helped rather than treated like criminals, and he is also advocating a global consensus on how to deal with drugs.
He said during his speech, "Nobody at all is helped by drugs being made illegal, unless of course there is a conspiracy to marginalize, condemn and persecute disenfranchised members of our global community. I'd hate to think that was the situation - that certain countries didn't matter, that certain classes didn't matter, that certain races didn't matter. So unless that's the situation there's literally no reason to proceed with this experiment of prohibition which has lasted for a century, that has done nothing but bring death, suffering, crime, created a negative economy, and deaths all over Mexico, deaths all over Malaysia, unnecessary death penalties."
ReplyDeleteRussell Brand gives speech on drugs at United Nations panel
March 20, 2014, 8:18 AM EST
WENN
British comedian Russell Brand gave a speech advocating the decriminalization of drugs at a United Nations panel in Vienna, Austria on Wednesday.
Brand is a recovering drug addict and has famously been vocal about his experiences, appearing on a number of TV programs calling for a change in drug laws. He has now taken his decriminaliztion stance to the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs
.
Brand is backing the Support, Don't Punish campaign, which lobbies for addicts to be helped rather than treated like criminals, and he is also advocating a global consensus on how to deal with drugs.
He said during his speech, "Nobody at all is helped by drugs being made illegal, unless of course there is a conspiracy to marginalize, condemn and persecute disenfranchised members of our global community. I'd hate to think that was the situation - that certain countries didn't matter, that certain classes didn't matter, that certain races didn't matter. So unless that's the situation there's literally no reason to proceed with this experiment of prohibition which has lasted for a century, that has done nothing but bring death, suffering, crime, created a negative economy, and deaths all over Mexico, deaths all over Malaysia, unnecessary death penalties."