Kendra McSweeney, professor, geography, is the author of a new report, The Impact of Drug Policy on the Environment (Open Society Foundations, December 2015). The report responds to recent calls by both the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the Global Commission on Drug Policy for drug policy debates to be based on the latest and best empirical evidence.

Kendra also contributed to this article in the Vice News, on how the war on drugs is killing the environment.
The War on Drugs Isn't Just Destroying Lives — It's Also Killing the Environment