Drugs Are M'kay, M'kay?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/08032007/344/rewrite-drug-laws-commission-urges.html

Illegal drugs can be "harmless" and should no longer be "demonised", a wide-ranging two-year study has concluded.

The report says Britain's drug laws are "not fit for purpose" and should be torn up in favour of a system which recognises that drinking and smoking can cause more harm.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/08032007/325/drugs-laws-driven-moral-panic.html

Professor Anthony King of Essex University, who chaired the RSA commission, told BBC radio that [...] the great majority of people who used illegal drugs did not harm themselves or cause anyone else any trouble.

"Their only problem is that they are breaking the law in possessing drugs," he said.


Edit: more linkage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6429239.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2339027.ece

The V Word

http://tinyurl.com/27esmf

http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2007/03/06/406/ (also available at http://jjhs.klschools.org/home.aspx )

http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2007/03/07/the-v-word-controversy-in-their-own-words/

Interesting stuff.

Personally, I'm inclined to go with the 'two wrongs make a right' theory here - the school's censorship attempt was wrong, and therefore the girls' disobedience of that censorship attempt was right. I think the principal should apologise for both the initial censorship attempt, and for the school's reaction to the girls breaking the conditions imposed on their performance - but most importantly for the former.

Opinions?