Antonio Maria Costa

Goodwill Ambassador for Global Justice for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on shrooms

Nicolas Cage is the Goodwill Ambassador for Global Justice for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. He goes around supporting the work of the UNODC, who have striven to up hold the United Nations drug control conventions. The actor has been on a mission to Kenya with UNODC chief Antonio Maria Costa were he visited a prison'

It left me wondering how somebody with Cage's 'badboy' image found himself taking up such a role and how would UNODC cope with such a figure representing the information. I guess the power of celebrity is such that this wasn't a consideration

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      Mr Costa might be a good soldier but don’t trust him

      Submitted by Big on Wed, 08/04/2009 - 02:42

      I know many of you are big fans of Antonio Maria Costa of the UNODC, after all he has done some great work on the consequences of drug prohibition. He is a good soldier however who does what his bosses tell him to do. As I am in the habit of warning his bosses might change his orders.

      After all he is a consummate bureaucrat and could reinvent the UNODC as the regulators of a legal trade.

      And then the good soldier would put us all out of business!

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