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UK: Make drugs legal says Mowlam
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Saturday 27 Apr 2002 Former Cabinet minister Mo Mowlam has called for the legalisation of all drugs, including heroin and cocaine. Ms Mowlam, who as Cabinet Office minister was responsible for the Government's anti-drugs policy, said legalising and taxing drugs was the only way to deal with the problem. "You'd have the money from tax, which if it were ring-fenced for working with addicts whether cannabis, pills, barbiturates, coke or heroin you'd have a chance of beating it," she said in an interview with the Independent on Sunday. "I think that is the most effective way because in the end I don't think you could ever stop it. Why not regulate it, take the tax from it and seriously deal with addiction which has been around since the 1900s?" Her comments are likely to irritate ministers following the recent publication of her autobiography in which she criticised Tony Blair's style of government and the way she was forced out of her job as Northern Ireland Secretary.
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