The Johns Hopkins–Lancet Commission on Drug Policy and Health was a commission organized by the

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

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The Lancet ''The Lancet'' is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal, founded in England in 1823. It is one of the world's highest-impact academic journals and also one of the oldest medical journals still in publication. The journal publishes ...

'', a peer-reviewed medical journal. The commission delivered its report in 2016, finding that the drug prohibition's harms to public health far outweighed its benefits.

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