Legalise all drugs end immoral laws

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Legalise all drugs: chief constable demands end to 'immoral laws'

One of Britain's most senior police officers is to call for all drugs – including heroin and cocaine – to be legalised and urges the Government to declare an end to the "failed" war on illegal narcotics.

Richard Brunstrom, the Chief Constable of North Wales, advocates an end to UK drug policy based on "prohibition". His comments come as the Home Office this week ends the process of gathering expert advice looking at the next 10 years of strategy.

In his radical analysis, which he will present to the North Wales Police Authority today, Mr Brunstrom points out that illegal drugs are now cheaper and more plentiful than ever before.

The number of users has soared while drug-related crime is rising with narcotics now supporting a worldwide business empire second only in value to oil. "If policy on drugs is in future to be pragmatic not moralistic, driven by ethics not dogma, then the current prohibitionist stance will have to be swept away as both unworkable and immoral, to be replaced with an evidence-based unified system (specifically including tobacco and alcohol) aimed at minimisation of harms to society," he will say.
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[donsu]

1. agree, decriminalize all drugs

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[terrya]

2. Hear, hear!

It is NOT the state's role to police individuals private behavior nor to be some sort of "morality police". As we've seen with sodomy laws. If an individual wants to buy pot, heroin, meth, they should be allowed to do so. Legally, without fear of prosecution. This country is involved with too many damn wars already. And the police has better things to do, I'm sure, then to go after people who buy pot. It's time...I'd say long overdue, to end the "War on Drugs". Because it's a catastrophic failure. I can't believe some people STILL haven't learned the lessons from Prohibition.

[High Plains]

3. 1.8 million drug arrests in the US last year, 800,000 for pot alone.

It's a fucking racket, a jobs program for cops, prosecutors, and the prison-industrial complex.

End the drug war! www.stopthedrugwar.org

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4. This is long but its worth the read ...

The Spoils of War

US foreign policy supports the workings of a thriving criminal economy in which the demarcation between organized capital and organized crime has become increasingly blurred. The heroin business is not "filling the coffers of the Taliban" as claimed by US government and the international community: quite the opposite! The proceeds of this illegal trade are the source of wealth formation, largely reaped by powerful business/criminal interests within the Western countries. These interests are sustained by US foreign policy. Decision-making in the US State Department, the CIA and the Pentagon is instrumental in supporting this highly profitable multibillion dollar trade, third in commodity value after oil and the arms trade.

This article is painstakingly detailed and should leave no one in doubt about the author's assertions "Afghanistan's Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade - Washington's Hidden Agenda: Restore the Drug Trade".