Duffy Favors Drug Policy Reform
2007 July 3
US Mayors Pass Resolution
The United States Conference of Mayors, of which Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy is a member, passed a resolution last weekend calling for a public-health based approach to substance use and abuse.
Sponsored by Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson the resolution calls for:
“a New Bottom Line in U.S drug policy . . . that concentrates more fully on reducing the negative consequences associated with drug abuse, while ensuring that our policies do not exacerbate these problems or create new social problems of their own.”
The Mayors also supported a reevaluation of “Drug War” funding to focus more funds at levels of local treatment rather than a measurement of success based on the incarceration of non-violent offenders.
