Prohibition doesn’t work. The UK needs a more enlightened drugs policy
A strange thing happened last a few weekends ago. The police at the Secret Garden Party music festival in Cambridgeshire stopped trying to arrest drug-takers and instead stood by supportively as The Loop, a drugs charity, tested party-goers’ illegal substances to ensure they were safe. Their tests revealed bags of “cocaine” to be ground anti-malarial drugs and highlighted a number of unusually high-strength ecstasy and MDMA tablets, which have been linked to avoidable overdose deaths elsewhere this year.
The reception was positive. Festival-goers gratefully disposed of batches of drugs shown to be dangerous and responded with interest to the information they were given on drug-use risks while testing was carried out. No one died – something that couldn’t be said of Perthshire’s T in the Park Festival two weeks earlier, the scene of two suspected drug poisoning deaths.
The experiment goes...
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