Current legislation has created an environment where the link between organised criminals and the most vulnerable is strong and almost freely exploitative. Despite all the efforts to reduce the supply and the demand, drug misuse continues, and we must ask: what we can do differently. If the aim is to stop people taking drugs, and stop people committing crime in order to fund their habit, we must follow the evidence and support people to recover rather than send them to prison. REDUCING SUPPLY-PAST FAILURES Enforcement agencies, over time, have had pockets of success in seizing significant quantities of drugs, but […]
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