Legalisation of all drugs is 'inevitable'

POLITICS. .

# If policy on drugs is in future to be pragmatic not moralistic, driven by ethics not dogma, then the current prohibitionist stance will have to be swept away as unworkable and immoral. Such a strategy leads inevitably to the legalisation and regulation of all drugs.

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# It is very clear that prohibition doesn't work, an enforcement-led strategy is making things worse, not better.

# We're causing something around '20bn worth of damage to our society every year by criminalizing drugs.

# Drugs laws are out of date and the police are engaged in a battle which they cannot win.

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