Drugs
Another resignation form the panel which advises the Home Secretary on drugs brings into the open the continuing turmoil in the relationship between government and scientific advisers. There is a quite erroneous understanding by the government that if it sets up a council, panel, or task force to advise it, it owns the opinions of those who serve on it. However the continuing spat with this quango masks the real issues.
They are these. Drugs are harmful and their distribution is almost entirely controlled by organised crime. Huge law enforcement resources are employed just to stop the problems getting entirely out of control. Every school pupil either knows how to get them or knows someone who does. The narco economy and the legitimate businesses which front it are worth billions a year. Control of drugs is no more efficient than prohibition of alcohol in America between the wars. We need a fresh approach.
Legalise all drugs. Distribute them very cheaply through special licenced clinics or centres. Provide therapy for addicts. Provide education and lifestyle coaching to customers and shut down forthwith any club, pub or school (yes school) which allows illegal sale or distribution on its premises. Arrest street corner peddlers on site. Freeze the assets of the drug cartels and seize their businesses, including the legitimate front organisations. Establish an economic aid programme to transform the economy of Afghanistan and meanwhile buy the poppy crop and destroy it.
This is the sort of programme which would have an effect. Silly arguments about ‘classifaction’ between government and experts does nothing either way.
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