Drugs Are M'kay, M'kay?
Mar. 8th, 2007 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyhttp://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
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
