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UK: Mowlam: 'Legalise Drugs'
Sky News
Sunday 28 Apr 2002 Former minister Mo Mowlam says all drugs, including heroin and cocaine, should be legalised. She said legalising and taxing drugs was the only way to deal with the problem - comments which are likely to irritate the Government. Tax funds Ms Mowlam used to be Cabinet Office minister which meant she was responsible for Britain's anti-drugs policy. She said legalising drugs would mean: "You'd have the money from tax. "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 told the Independent on Sunday. 'Effective' "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?" Ms Mowlam recently criticised Tony Blair's style of government and the way she was forced out of her job as Northern Ireland Secretary. She claimed in her autobiography she was stabbed in the back by former colleagues at the heart of government. The Government is reportedly ready to soften its cannabis stance. It follows claims from scientists that the drug may not be as harmful as originally thought.
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