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Letter: Time to scrap drugs war
Derek Williams Halifax Evening Courier
Monday 03 Apr 2000 READING Coun Andrew Feather's recent comments in "Mailbag" about drugs shows just how far out of touch the Conservatives are these days. We've had the "war on drugs" for nearly 30 years now and in that time the problems surrounding illegal drugs have grown and grown. We can look around the world, to the U.S., the home of drug prohibition, and see the mess there and we can look at Holland, with its cannabis coffee shops, and see a much better situation. The drug war has, simply, failed and failed badly and the only possible way forward is to scrap it. Andrew Feather and his party will have none of this, though, they want to spend a huge amount of money enforcing a regime regarded with contempt by a huge section of the population. He fails to understand that conflict is no way to address such a serious issue, yet conflict is all he and his party offer. They call it "zero tolerance" and it is madness. Prohibition causes ignorance and it keeps these potentially dangerous substances in the hands of organised profit motivated criminals. Not all, but most of the problems associated with drugs are caused by the law and by people like Andrew Feather. DEREK WILLIAMS
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