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Moving Beyond the War on Drugs: Using Evidence to Tackle the Causes of Drug Use

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 13:07

Last week I hosted an open debate about substance misuse. It proved so popular we spent the evening adding chairs at the back of the room. In the midst of an election focused on austerity, inequality and our housing crisis, why is it that so many people still feel so strongly about drugs?

The panel and I agreed that:

  • The "war on drugs" has failed - by any measure you choose to use to assess it
  • Unregulated drug use is one of the biggest causes of crime in the UK and accounts for a trillion dollar underground global economy that is destabilising governments and resulting in thousands of deaths worldwide
  • Personal substance misuse should be dealt with primarily as a social health rather than a criminal justice issue
  • We must begin a much more mature, open and evidence based policy development, that will achieve control of production and supply,
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