Privately, many politicians admit drug prohibition has failed. Publicly, they blame everyone but themselves 🖊️ ianbirrell via ipaperviews
Blunders in Westminster over the years have inflamed many problems linked to illicit drug use
Half the murders in Britain – along with half the acquisitive crime – are tied to this trade in drugs outsourced by naive politicians to the most vicious gangsters. Even government reviews admit enforcement policies are futile and stoke such violence. Our country also accounts for one-third of drug-related deaths in Europe. Scottish statistics offer even more damning indictment of egregious failure with fatality ratesthan the rest of our continent.
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