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Letter: Accept Defeat in the War on drugs

Gary Sherborne

Dorset Echo

Saturday 02 May 2009

Some of us who dare protest for better control of drugs in society will be presenting a petition for the rights of cannabis users and protesting outside Downing Street today (May 2).

This is a small detail compared to those who attended a special session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1998, when a 10-year strategy to combat illegal drugs was presented.

At that meeting it was proclaimed: “A drug free world – we can do it”.

The United Nations agreed that in the spring of this year a high-level political meeting would take place to review progress.

Now I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer but from where I am in Boscombe, what with daily activities here, everyday reports in the media of the harm illegal drugs are causing to individuals, homes, communities, states and even whole countries, I think it is fair to say that the UN’s mission of a drug-free world has catastrophically failed.

I say that the status quo, whereby a person’s drug of choice is determined by the judicial system rather than dealt with as a health issue and life choice is simply wrong.

I say that the drug laws today are not fit for purpose, cause more harm than we can imagine and that the sooner these powerful people at their high-level meetings establish strategies for control and regulation of all drugs in society, the better for us all.

Gary Sherborne, Grosvenor Gardens, Boscombe

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