My drugs of choice would be chocolate & a good white wine.
I have long thought that making drug users criminals was ridiculous. If I were PM I would legalise all drugs. I would make doctors control dispensing them & monitor the health of addicts. This would immediately stop the huge sums of money being made by criminals. It would protect vulnerable people who cannot control their addiction on their own. They would no longer need to resort to crime to feed the habit. Victims of those crimes would be safer. The police would not waste huge resources in money, time & manpower policing the drug trade & it's wider aspects. It just seems an obvious win win situation to me. The endless cycle would be broken.
Now the imperatives are even higher. Terrorists all over the world control drug sale & production. They make vast sums of money on a daily basis to pay for training camps, arms & the infrastructure of indoctrination & recruitment. We need to cut off their supply of cash. Now. Legalising drugs would go a long way to doing that.
The bonus is that the government would actually make money from taxes on drugs as well as saving money on a war on drugs that has never been successful. What's not to like?
Misha Glenny is a Guardian journalist who has written convincingly on this subject.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/808c348e-a4db-11e5-a91e-162b86790c58.html#axzz3xPBzeOfi
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jul/22/drugstrade.internationalcrime - Article by Misha Glenny
We really can't afford not to do this.
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