The purpose of the present conference of the European Union on drugs policy is to hold a public debate about ways to strengthen cooperation between political authorities and civil society in the field of drugs policy.
The undersigned organisations, representing millions of citizens inside and outside of Europe, who in one way or another are concerned with current drugs control policies, believe that it indeed is partly as a result of the lack of interaction between civil society and policy makers that drug policies have so far been ineffective, even counterproductive. Hence we wish to participate in this debate with the following considerations.
