Pubdate: Mon, 04 May 2015
Source: Courier-Mail, The (Australia)
Copyright: 2015 Queensland Newspapers
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Author: Brett Lee

IT'S TIME TO FOCUS ON OUR FAILURE TO CONTROL DRUGS

KERRY Herron (Letters, May 1) acknowledges the sad execution of the 
Bali drug runners and asks may we now have equal media attention on 
deaths from illegal drugs.

I couldn't agree more. Let's focus on the abject failure of current 
control strategies, and acknowledge that the socalled "war on drugs" 
was lost a very long time ago.

Let's accept that decriminalisation and harm minimisation are the 
only logical ways forward, and start discussing how that can be achieved.

Brett Lee, Tingalpa
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