Drugs Are M'kay, M'kay?

[denny]

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

Comments

[cokephreak.livejournal.com]

Ben Eltons High Society goes into the concept of legalising all drugs quite well (by this I mean it supports my beliefs)

Trouble is that it's widely regarded as political suicide to put anything like this forward, and if enough people think like that it kinda works out to be true. I dont think it's going to happen for a long time

[sevenhelz.livejournal.com]

yeah but what percentage of the general public are gonna read that report, or even hear that it exists?