The Lesson of Ayatollah Khalkhali

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Abstract
The world is in the midst of a drug epidemic. Literally millions of people now use heroin, opium, morphine, cocaine, and marijuana regularly in flagrant defiance of national and international law. Hundred of thousands, perhaps millions, are engaged in supplying their illicit needs and desires. The response of most national and international leaders has been rigid support of the existing system of abstinence and prohibition often through harsh criminal sanctions involving long prison terms and, in at least 13 countries, even the death penalty. As a result of all this, drug-related crime and official corruption are rising wherever the epidemic spreads. International drug control organizations, such as the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, blindly support the existing system and the increasingly harsh domestic laws that prop it up. However, compromises and adjustments must be made to meet new realities. These are not radical thoughts but essentially conservative ones. Unless rational and humane changes are made soon, the entire structure of international drug control may collapse completely.

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