David R. Bewley-Taylor

TL;DR: The US and the multilateral drug control system during the Cold War and the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs the global drug prohibition regime at work are at work.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the United States of America can easily block change and that such systemic obstacles may lead parties wishing to appreciably expand policy space at a national level to consider a form of treaty withdrawal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the UNGASS decade and the domestic normalization of harm reduction at the UN: member state tension and systemic dissonance, soft defection and regime weakening.

TL;DR: It is timely for the international community to revisit the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs with a view to correcting past errors and inconsistencies within the regime, particularly those relating to Scheduling and traditional drug use.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the image of the UN as a benevolent organization is a crucial factor in the functioning of the global drug prohibition regime and that from certain normative perspectives, particularly that of harm reduction, it is possible to identify the emergence of policy contradictions between what can be broadly defined as the United Nations drug control system and the core values of UN as laid out in the Charter and other key instruments from which the UN derives its image of benevolence.