Public Letter
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President Juan Manuel Santos
President of the Republic of Colombia
President Fernando H. Cardoso
Former President of Brazil
President Ruth Dreifuss
Former President of Switzerland
George P. Schultz
Former US Secretary of State
Louise Arbour, CC, GOQ
Former UN High-Commissioner for Human Rights
Thorvald Stoltenberg
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Paul Flynn, MP
Labour MP for Newport West
Tom Brake, MP
Co-chair of the Lib Dem Home Affairs, Justice and Equalities Parliamentary Policy Committee
Tom Lloyd
Former Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire
Dr. Jan Wiarda
Former President of European Police Chiefs
Asma Jahangir
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary, Extrajudicial and Summary Execution
Sir Richard Branson
Entrepreneur and Founder of the Virgin Group
Sean Parker
Founding President of Facebook, Director of Spotify
Dr. Kary Mullis
Chemist, Nobel Prize winner
Professor Kenneth Arrow
Economist, Nobel Prize winner
Professor Sir Anthony Leggett
Physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Professor Robert Grayling
Dean of School of Medicine, KCL
Professor Noam Chomsky
Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT
Mario Vargas Llosa
Writer, Nobel Prize winner
John Perry Barlow
Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Lord Rees, OM
Astronomer Royal and former President of the Royal Society
President Otto Pérez Molina
President of the Republic of Guatemala
President César Gaviria
Former President of Colombia
President Lech Wałęsa
Former President of Poland, Nobel Prize winner.
Jaswant Singh
Former Minister of Defence, of Finance, and for External Affairs, India
Carel Edwards
Former Head of the EU Commission’s Drug Policy Unit
General Lord Ramsbotham
Former HM Chief Inspector of Prisons
Caroline Lucas, MP
Leader of the Green Party and MP for Brighton
Peter Lilley, MP
Former Secretary of State for Social Security
Gilberto Gil
Musician, former Minister of Culture, Brazil
Professor David Nutt
Former Chair of the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs
John Whitehead
Former US Deputy Secretary of State
Sting
Musician and actor
Professor Sir Harold Kroto
Chemist, Nobel Prize winner
Professor Thomas C. Schelling
Economist, Nobel Prize winner
Professor Martin L. Perl
Physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Professor A. C. Grayling
Master of the New College of the Humanities
Professor Trevor Robbins
Professor of Neuroscience at Cambridge
Professor Colin Blakemore
Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and University of Warwick
Carlos Fuentes
Novelist and essayist
Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
Former Editor of The Sunday Telegraph
Bernardo Bertolucci
Film Director
Dr. Patrick Aeberhard
Former President of Doctors of the World
Lord MacDonald, QC
Former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service
President Jimmy Carter
Former President of the United States, Nobel Prize winner
President Vicente Fox
Former President of Mexico
President Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Former President of Poland
Professor Lord Piot
Former UN Under Secretary-General
Javier Solana, KOGF, KCMG
Former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy
Gary Johnson
Republican US Presidential Candidate
Dr. Julian Huppert, MP
Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform
Bob Ainsworth, MP
Former UK Secretary of State for Defence
Dr. Muhammed Abdul Bari, MBE
Former Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain
Nicholas Green, QC
Former Chairman of the Bar Council
Maria Cattaui
Former Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Commerce
Yoko Ono
Musician and artist
Professor John Polanyi
Chemist, Nobel Prize winner
Professor Sir Peter Mansfield
Economist, Nobel Prize winner
Professor Sir Ian Gilmore
Former President of the Royal College of Physicians
Professor Peter Singer
Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta
Professor of Economics at Cambridge
Professor Jonathan Wolff
Professor of Philosophy at UCL
Professor Niall Ferguson
Professor of History at Harvard University
Professor Robin Room
School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Jeremy Thomas
Film Producer
Lord Mancroft
Chair of the Drug and Alcohol Foundation