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Letter: It's prohibition Derek Williams news and Star, Carlisle Wednesday 10 Jan 2007 IN the weeks before Christmas we heard of mass murders of drug-addicted prostitutes in Ipswich and the prosecution of good- hearted people supplying medical cannabis to seriously ill people. It’s clear that the present “zero tolerance” drugs policy is in a total mess, unjust and it’s creating more problems than it solves. When this government came to power in 1997 it made a point of squashing drug law reform, preferring to “breathe new life into the war on drugs” as Blair put it. Well, that’s certainly what’s happened and people with MS being dragged through the courts is only one of the sickening results. Prohibition – the correct term for the “war on drugs” – means that illegal drugs are not “controlled substances” in any meaningful use of the word “controlled.” Recreational and escapist use is supplied by organised crime with a turnover making it the third biggest industry on the planet. Well financed and able to defend themselves, the suppliers of hard drugs – the drugs the government promised to target such as heroin and cocaine – have continued to spread like a cancer through our society. Meanwhile the full force of the law has been directed where it’s easy to get results Derek Williams Pembroke Road Norwich http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/opinion/viewarticle.aspx?id=452852
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