The Historical foundations of the narcotic drug control regime / World Bank, 12 March 2008
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Buxton, Julia
"This paper outlines the institutional history of the international narcotic drug control regime. The paper argues that the contemporary control model is ill-positioned to address the dynamic and rapidly changing nature of the global narcotics trade. The persistence of anachronistic guiding first principles, specifically the utopian idea of prohibition, is identified as the key impediment to the adoption of a more humane and effective policy approach. But while there is growing pressure for a revision of founding ideas, this is not supported by a host of powerful actors."