David Cameron, you were right about drugs. Don’t err and stray now

The ‘war on drugs’ does not work, as Cameron himself once said. The latest crackdown on legal highs such as poppers is madness

I agree with David Cameron: not a statement you should become accustomed to gracing this column. Well, to clarify, the earlier incarnation of the prime minister, in any case. “I ask the Labour government not to return to retribution and war on drugs,” he pleaded back in 2002. “That has been tried and we all know that it does not work.” His wisdom was not restricted to word, but was evident in deed, too. As a member of the home affairs select committee on drug misuse, he voted to consider “the possibility of legalisation and regulation” of drugs.

Neither was this flirtation with reason and common sense short-lived. When he stood for the Tory leadership in 2005 – back in the days of fluffy...

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