I. Introduction
This contribution is submitted by H.E. Alicia Buenrostro Massieu (Mexico), the Chair of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) at its 61st session, in response to a letter from the President of the Economic and Social Council inviting the Commission to provide substantive inputs to the 2018 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, which will convene under the auspices of ECOSOC at UN headquarters in New York from 9 to 18 July 2018, on the theme “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies”....