 You can't break me, no solution You just break me, no solution We would like to ask you to spread the news about the huge difference in gap between the real world problem between the terrible things which are happening in the world and between the discussion which goes inside of this building The past 10 years was a failure as was the last 100 years of prohibition We're grateful that in the UN Declaration they mentioned that the impact the disproportionate impact that drugs have on youth yet we're disappointed that they missed the fundamental point that drug prohibition and our drug laws also disproportionately and negatively impact youth In the United States alone if a young person is convicted of a drug offense they are denied access to financial aid to attend college they're denied public assistance benefits like welfare food stamps public housing they're denied access to professional licenses like to become a teacher or a truck driver and the criminal record being saddled with a criminal record for drug possession for something as simple as marijuana possession will prevent them from getting a good job for the rest of their lives which actually makes the drug problem far more or far worse by denying them access to economic advancement that is the number one way of keeping somebody from having a serious substance abuse problem young people are subjected in our public schools to random student drug testing that teaches them that they are guilty until proven innocent and that they should be judged by the content of their urine and not the content of their character in other countries the problems can be far worse young people are routinely sent to quote treatment centers which are nothing more than prisons warehouse with people sometimes twice and three times their age turned into victims and subjected violence rape and sometimes worse and this will not change until young people are brought into the process of developing global drug policy and a drug policy that is based in public health and reason and science and evidence not in ideology and dogma we're ready to negotiate are you let's end the war quite a good piece of the war on drugs we are saying here that the governments are talking about the need to renegotiate but they're not negotiating because all they believe in is dogma this is a this is a policy process driven by political expediency not by public health we are saying that it is time to put public health first to recognize that the only science-based policy on drugs is harm reduction, needle exchange, opiate substitution therapies and involving drug users for change we are here today ready to negotiate the peace where drug users are campaigning for an end to the war on drugs yeah well it's good to know that you're here some of us are working hard for you in there thank you very much which delegation are you from Australia Australia, nice to meet you we are today sick of our people being abused being murdered being tortured being offered restricted health care being thrown out of housing having their children taken away from them it is time for change we call on the on the united nations to stand for its founding principles of human rights we cannot have a drug control program it breaches the very fundamental principles on which the united nations was formed it is time to put human rights first and to end the war on drugs and to give human rights to my community let my people go let give us freedom it's time for peace we have from five to seven millions of people using drugs most of them are injected drug users however we have a ban on using methadone and buprenorphine the therapy that showed its effectiveness and efficiency in the whole war harm reduction in our country runs very well needle exchange program, methadone treatment and everything but unfortunately our country delegations say no two-fold for harm reduction term in the cnd meeting they said it was a year of reflection the year from march last year until now but there has been no reflection there has been no independent evaluation they simply evaluate themselves and they say things are going well but there was an independent evaluation from the european commission and their verdict is very negative that things have gotten worse and that the prohibition makes things worse just more harm than good he cannot say well you're right cannabis can be bought by every adult in holland and the levels of use are about average in europe if they admit that this is the case they can stop the whole thing and go home and do something else and that's what should be done of course to to arrange sensible regulations and that would be a lot better than the way it is now