The War on Drugs: a global failure | Kate Seear | TEDxDeakin Uni Melbourne

I want to start with a short exercise. So, if you will join me, you can take a deep breath, pause, close your eyes if you prefer. I want you to think about what image comes into your mind when I say the phrase the war on drugs.Now for me lots of images come to mind. I think of police drug busts and seizures on the nightly news. Sniffer dogs at music festivals and on city streets.I think of arrests and mass incarceration. I think of the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. Perhaps like me, you also had TV show ...