<blockquote>The proposal by the group, the <a title="The organization’s website." href="http://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/">Global Commission on Drug Policy</a>, goes beyond its previous call to abandon the nearly half-century-old American-led war on drugs. As part of a <a href="http://static.squarespace.com/static/53ecb452e4b02047c0779e59/t/540da6ebe4b068678cd46df9/1410180843424/global_commission_EN.pdf">report</a> scheduled to be released on Tuesday, the group goes much further than its 2011 recommendation to legalize cannabis. The former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a member of the commission, said the group was calling for the legal regulation of “as many of the drugs that are currently illegal as possible, with the understanding that some drugs may remain too dangerous to decriminalize.”</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/elder-statesmen-finally-see-the-folly-of-the-drug-war/379921/">Elder Statesmen Declare a War on the 'War on Drugs' - The Atlantic</a>.