Pubdate: Tue, 17 Dec 2013
Source: Independent  (UK)
Copyright: 2013 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.independent.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/209
Author: Dan Mace
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v13/n591/a06.html

VOICE OF SANITY AMID THE 'WAR ON DRUGS'

Owen Jones argues for a Uruguayan-type change of policy to legalise 
cannabis use, possession and supply. I may be about to change my 
long-held grumpy views, in part thanks to the succinct summary of 
Prohibition in Bill Bryson's book One Sumer: America, 1927.

What unlearned lessons: the rise in official and unofficial violence; 
the public hypocrisy; the inability to enforce effectively; the 
unintended consequences of increasing the thing being controlled; the 
opportunities for fortunes to be made illegitimately and poverty to 
be increased legitimately. It's time to rethink - thanks, Owen and Bill.

Dan Mace

Swindon
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