U.N. Wants An End To Lenient Policies on Drugs Vienna -- The head of a U.N. conference on narcotics called on countries on Tuesday to abandon lenient and inconsistent policies towards cannabis and other drugs and instead start vigorously implementing international drug-control treaties. Patricia Olamendi, global affairs undersecretary at Mexico's Foreign Ministry and chairwoman of the U.N. conference, told reporters such inconsistency was undermining the fight against the trafficking and use of narcotics. The United Nations has already criticised Britain for downgrading cannabis to a low-risk, category C drug. While possession of small amounts of cannabis in Britain is now...