I wrote:
On April 19, the United Nations will be hosting the first major international conference on national drugs policies in almost 20 years, the UN General Assembly Session (UNGASS) on Drugs -- which should be interesting, as the former Nixon-era 'War on Drugs' consensus is totally gone. (Not that legalisation has become predominant, just that the former international consensus is utterly dead.)
Disappointingly, the General Assembly session has rubber-stamp approved the existing dysfunctional international prohibition regime, despite loud dissent by countries nearly torn apart by its fallout -- Mexico, Guatemala, and Columbia -- and wide attention to the increasing number of countries opting out and decriminalising, including an increasing number of USA states. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/19/un-summit-global-war-drugs-agre... One can hope for the General Assembly being irrelevant and ignored in this particular -- which for good or ill is common anyway. Maybe in another decade, the charade will be dropped.