| 2005_U_03 Resolution to ratify the Universal Declaration on Food and Drugs | ||
| By virtue of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the United Nations has both a moral and political responsibility to maintain a leading position in providing clarity on issues and topics of complex human interaction. | ||
| The area of foods and drugs is of particular importance for every human and every member state on planet Earth. Access to adequate food and clean drinking water are fundamental human rights. | ||
| The area of drugs has also created significant abnormalities in the flow of funds and law enforcement of member nations. The global policy of drug seizure and moral temperance to drugs costs the world economy over $200 billion annually in lost taxable revenue, lost productivity, health related costs and police and law enforcement costs and prisons. | ||
| In the United States alone there are over 4 million people currently imprisoned full time with over 70% convicted of drug related crimes. Clearly then there is something horribly wrong with the way in which the world community is addressing these fundamental issues. | ||
| What is needed is a universal understanding of the very nature of what constitutes food and a drug and what are the best policies for managing the needs and desires of individuals versus the needs and responsibilities of the greater community. | ||
| No longer can the global community be held to ransom by people claiming moral authority over the issue of abstinence and temperance concerning drugs when such blanked thinking continues to make problems worse, not better. Countries are losing the war on drugs because a one-side war on one general class of drugs is doomed to fail through lack of logic. Where illogical policies are applied, common sense will always find a way around. | ||
| And so, in common sense, a universal declaration on Food and Drugs is needed. | ||
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