The continuation of "Silenced NGO Partner" or "Polak's question - Round 3"
By: HCLU
Posted: Nov 14 08
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Austria, Netherlands
Drugs & human rights
Antonio-Maria Costa, drug policy, drugs, Frederik Polak, HCLU, The Netherlands, UNODC
It seems HCLU’s Silenced NGO Partner video (with more than 35.000 views on YouTube up to now) on the duel between Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the Dutch psychiatrist Mr. Frederick Polak caused some disturbances in the still water. We learned that our video was not only popular among Dutch government officials, but also among staff members of various UN agencies, including UNODC itself. Mr. Costa recently travelled to the Netherlands, where he made an official visit to one of the world famous Dutch coffee shops and a controlled injection site, and met with local authorities. Maybe it is an exaggeration to say that this visit was provoked by our video, but it seems the UN drug czar and his office feels the pressure from civil society. The Dutch drug policy model is the only living proof in our world that the legal availability of cannabis does not necessary result in skyrocketing demand. As Mr. Polak pointed out earlier, the sole existence of the coffee shop model is a threat to the global prohibition regime.
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