that report is quite US-centric (although I think its from Canada).- they do at least acknowledge that the US dominate global drugs policy.
it was the USA who disrupted perfectly workable European harm reduction programmes in the 1970s by threatening economic sanctions againsty Europe; that threat was raised again in the late 1990s when the EU toyed with the idea of decriminalising party drugs such as MDMA as well as cannabis.
What makes things far worse though is the near complete absence of a public sector in the USA (Canada is marginally better) which means all scientists and engineers there are bound to their employers commercial priorities. Even the UK is better; it was (somewhat surprisingly) a Tory government who created the ACMD in the fianbd the current one hasn’t tried to abolish it even if they don’t give them as much power on the committees.
So if the USA create a commercial market around addiction in the same way the US do with everything else; its hardly surprising these flawed ideas get proliferated in the same way a lot of the US-dominated tech industry might make short term commercial gains but has long term problems.
its impressive though that prof is black, has dreadllocks and hasn’t been fitted up for drug dealing and locked up in federal prison and is still alive; he must be smart simply to survive…
