Russia Increasing Role in International Drug Prohibition

... treatment of addiction, the decriminalisation of possession, and legalisation of drugs in certain cases. Opposing these measures is a group of countries including Iran, Japan, Indonesia, China and Singapore, who reject the trend of liberalisation in global drug policy.[4] Taking an increasing role at the head of these countries’ stance on drug policy is Russia. At the 2013 International Drug Enforcement Conference President Putin emphasised the necessity of combating ‘all kinds of drugs’, and asserted the liberalisation of global drug policy to be a ‘dangerous path’.[5] Meanwhile,...