Alex Wodak - Can indvidual countries legalize drugs?

Dr Alex Wodak is the Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service at St Vincent's Hospital. He was also President of the International Harm Reduction Association for several years, he is the author (with Ron Owen) of "Drug Prohibition: a call for change" published by UNSW Press. We interviewed him at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms in Warsaw, May 2007.

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