What Do Drug Policy and Sustainable Development Have in Common?https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/why-un-s-sustainable-development-goals-must-include-drug-policy
"Internationally, the drug policies created over the past 50 years have been a bust. The emphasis on prohibition and security has done little to control the production, transit, or consumption of drugs. These policies have failed because the factors driving thousands of people to join illicit drug markets are deep and structural. Try as you might, you can’t just police them out of existence."