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My friends, I came here to celebrate ...
a very important day.
It was 50 years of the drug prohibition.
You made us rich, and I want to say to you
Thank you to the United Nations
to keep drugs illegal.
(Drug Lords International celebrating outside the 2011 CND)
Ahhh! Push it! You push it real good!
We are the Drug Lords .... WHOOOOO!
Keep drugs illegal my friends for another 50 years!
Hello, hello to everyone messieurs!
Drug war! (wave behind)
(Wave again) Thank you!
Join the party please ... champagne, cash, ***!
Thank you for prohibition!
Work hard and I live better!
50 years of prohibition ... nice business for us!
Our business is going very well, thank you very much for that!
(In German) So ladies and gentleman, we made it!
We are one team, don't forget!
I make fortunes with you! I love you! (We don't ask your kid for ID!)
My friends, your business is my business!
Thank you for my lifestyle!
I know you smoke my mota too güey!
Oh volare ... ooohhhhoooo! (singing)
Cantare ... ohhhhhooooooohhooo! (singing)
Thank you, for the money, you make me! (singing)
Thank you, for the money you make me! (singing)
Volare ... oohhhooo! (singing)
Cantare ... oohhhooohoo! (singing)
Thank you, for the money you make me! (singing)
Thank you, for the drug money!
The mafia players of our demonstration are fake,
in case you didn't get that.
But the harms of the global drug prohibition are real.
2011 marks the 50th anniversay
of the global drug control system.
But no governments, not the United Nations,
nor we the people, we have no time or reason to celebrate.
The only groups, gangs, who have a right and reason to celebrate,
are the organized crime groups who deal with drugs.
Because global drug prohibtion works only for them.
It's really time to think about evaluation,
and it's time to think about alternatives.
One of the main arguments used to support the war on drugs
and defend our current drug policy system
that is based on prohibition,
is that it is necessary to protect young people
from the evils of drug use and addiction.
The illegal nature of drugs has not reduced
its availability for young people.
Drugs continue to be highly accessible to any young person,
the threat of punishment has not deterred young people from using drugs,
but instead has deterred young people from accessing
life saving health services and support.
We have a terrible public health crisis in the United States.
Whether it's been the denial of *** prevention materials
in the form of syringes that are being denied to drug injectors
for decades now in the United States.
Drug overdose is one of the leading causes of death
amongst people in the United States.
The rise of prescription drug use is another cause of overdose deaths in the United States.
And yet we don't come up with solutions,
because we are so totally fixed on
the criminality of people's drug use
and drugs themselves.
We incarcerate more of our citizens than any other country in the world,
mostly for drug offenses.
Most of those people are African American or Latino.
It has a disproportionate impact on people of color in our country,
on poor people ... and it divides communities,
It has a terrible toll on people being able to go to college,
being able to work, and being able to vote in our country.
Not only that, we have taken this system
and we have exported it around the world
with a design of a global drug policy.
And that's what CND is about.
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs is the governing body
of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
It has two roles in the world,
One: is to ensure that drug policy
is run effectively around the world.
And secondly: it is to deal with organized crime.
However, the reality is
that the UN drives a policy which promotes harm
infringes people's human rights,
and leads to death and destruction around the world.
At the very same time,
it brings funding for these people,
who are the people making money out of the drug trade.
I wanna stop you, don't listen to that junkie!
I think that prohibition is very good!
I don't hurt you, very good...
sorry about it but I see you!
Prohibition works ... For organized crime only!
This was a fake protest
But the harms of the 50 year old drug prohibition are real.
If you don't want another 50 years of global drug war to benefit these criminals,
Share this video with you friends at facebook.com/drugreporter
and visit countthecosts.org for more information
Transcribed and Subtitled by Hunter Holliman