The West Africa Commission on Drugs (WACD) has urged West African governments to ensure that West Africa does not become a new frontline in the failed "war on drugs".
The Commission has also urged political leaders in West Africa to act together and fully engage Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to change the laws and policies on drugs that have not worked, while urging the international community to share the burdens created by the rise in drug trafficking through West Africa which neither produces nor consumes most of the drugs that transit the region.
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