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UK: Time to legalise drugs, says report
Ananova
Thursday 26 Jul 2001 Governments across the world are being urged to consider legalising all drugs to help curb violence and crime. Although drug use may be regarded as immoral and irresponsible it should no longer be illegal, claimed a report by the Economist magazine. Author Frances Cairncross said legalising drugs such as cannabis and cocaine may have immediate harmful side-effects but they would be favourable to the violence and corruption which surround the current global drugs industry. In a 14-page report, Ms Cairncross, the Economist's management editor, concentrated her argument on whether the state has a duty to protect individual citizens from harming themselves. "Governments allow their citizens the freedom to do many things: to go bungee jumping, to ride motorcycles, to own guns, to drink alcohol and to smoke cigarettes," she concluded. "Some of these are far more dangerous than drug-taking ... over himself, over his body and mind the individual is sovereign. "Trade in drugs may be immoral or irresponsible, but it should no longer be illegal." Ms Cairncross said drug use should be carefully controlled and regulated to guarantee quality. "The best answer is to move slowly but firmly to dismantle the edifice of enforcement," she said.
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