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UK: Confiscated assets to be used to fight drugs war
Ananova Thursday 12 Jul 2001 Ken Livingstone has announced a total of £250,000 in confiscated assets from drug dealers is to be used in the fight against drugs. The money, promised by the Government, has been earmarked by the London Drug and Alcohol Network for an alternative and co-ordinated approach to Britain's "failed" hardline US-style war on drugs. Alcohol manufacturers should be persuaded to carry health warnings and helpline numbers on their products, the London mayor said. He would also welcome extending the pilot scheme in Lambeth, south London, where cannabis for personal use is confiscated without arrest, if it proved successful. "I'm in favour of banning all advertising for tobacco and alcohol. It has got a grip on society and we should aim to minimise it to help those who do not have control," he said at LDAN's central London launch. "I do not like police wasting their time on one person with a little cannabis where the only harm that is being done is to themselves. "I want them concentrating on crack cocaine and smack dealers that can make life hell on council estates. I want them focusing first on the drugs that can kill." Scotland Yard said that seven people have been formally warned after being caught with cannabis for personal use since it launched the pilot scheme this month. More than a quarter of England's problem drug-users live in London and one in 10 young Londoners has tried cocaine. At least one in four admissions to accident and emergency departments in London is alcohol-related, as is 40% of violent crime committed in the capital, according to Greater London Authority figures.
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