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Decriminalise drug use

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GeraldineGransnet (GNHQ) Mon 15-Oct-12 09:57:16

There's a non-paywalled version of the story here:
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/15/decriminalise-drug-use-say-experts

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Bags Mon 15-Oct-12 09:28:37

Blakemore also has an opinion piece in the Times, entitled: Rule 1: Stop politicians spouting about drugs.

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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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