While talking heads in the U.S. debate the relevance of the United Nations, the International Antiprohibitionist League is working diligently with European Members of Parliament to reform United Nations conventions that bind countries to global drug prohibition.

At a press conference today in London, Marco Cappato, Member of the European Parliament (Transnational Radical Party) and Parliamentarians for Antiprohibitionist Action Coordinator will present a reform action resolution signed by over 200 Members of Parliament. The Parliamentarians for Antiprohibitionist Action Resolution has been formally presented to the European Parliament, Canadian Parliament, Greek Parliament, New Zealand Parliament, and the Colombian Parliament. The press conference will also a feature a presentation of the International Antiprohibitionist League's Report on the worldwide situation of drugs supply and demand and the reasons for Marco Cappato's arrest in Manchester, for civil disobedience action on cannabis. The press conference will be held the same day of the hearing of Minister Bob Ainsworth, European Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office, responsible for anti-drugs co-ordination.

The major mission of the International Antiprohibitionist League (IAL) is the reform of the three UN Conventions on Narcotic and Psychotropic substances. The IAL seeks to help create new legal structures for the legal control and regulation of all currently illicit substances.

Under prohibition, drugs are controlled by the law of the jungle in which some of the worst criminals on the face of the earth rule supreme. The IAL plans on replacing that violent chaos with a more rational and peaceful system of law, education, and treatment. It thus seeks to replace the law of the jungle with the rule of law.

To accomplish these important goals, the IAL has launched an ever-expanding international campaign utilizing a wide variety of nonviolent strategies consistent with the ethos and methods of the Transnational Radical Party, with which it is affiliated. Its major strategy is to spread the uncomfortable truth around the world that drug prohibition causes immense harm and precious little good, despite the sincere belief by millions of well-meaning people that the criminal drug treaties and national laws constitute the major protection against drugs for the people of the world. It strongly agrees with one phase of the movement to repeal the U.S. alcohol prohibition amendment: repeal of prohibition was justified as a measure to save children from harm.