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Decriminalise drug use

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Bags Mon 15-Oct-12 09:18:02

Article in the Times today about a suggestion by researchers that much currently illegal drug use should be decriminalised. Part of the argument is that the current policy, that has been in place for 50 years according to the article, has failed. The "Just say no" campaign has also failed, it claims. The author (Ford?) quotes the guy in charge of the research, Colin Blakemore, as saying that there is disjointedness betwee what the government perceives and reality. (No surprise there then!)

Sorry I can't put up a link. Times is paywalled. But there is a free iPad app.

Anyway, what do gransnetters think?

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Grannyknot Tue 16-Oct-12 08:42:11

I agree bags. And here from The Telegraph today 'Legal drugs are ruining more lives than illegal drugs" blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100184979/legal-drugs-are-ruining-more-peoples-lives-than-illegal-drugs/

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Bags Tue 16-Oct-12 09:22:54

Thanks for the link Gknot. I'll go and read it...

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glitabo Tue 16-Oct-12 14:20:38

That is an excellent article GrannyKnot.

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