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UNDCPs 1998 plan to eradicate the cultivation of both coca and opium poppy by the year 2008 was a rare opportunity to re-think current drugs efforts. Member states were asked to endorse a plan, known as SCOPE, for the eradication of drugs-linked crops by 2008. Is SCOPE viable? And what impact would it have on poor farmers who grow drugs-linked crops to survive? 

El plan propuesto por el PNUFID en 1998 para erradicar el cultivo de coca y adormidera para el año 2008, conocido como SCOPE, brindó una buena oportunidad para replantear las iniciativas en materia de drogas. ¿Sería un plan como SCOPE viable? ¿Qué impacto tendría en los campesinos pobres que dependen de esos cultivos para sobrevivir? 

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The United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) was held in New York on June 8-10, 1998. It was a disappointing event. No evaluation of current repressive drug policies took place whatsoever. It was devoted to, as a New York Times editorial phrased it, "recycling unrealistic pledges".

Durante décadas, los esfuerzos por reducir la oferta internacional de drogas se han traducido en una combinación de medidas represivas y medidas de desarrollo cuyo impacto general ha resultado ser todo un fracaso.