It may just be in time but I sense the 50-year campaign to legalise drugs is at last running into the trouble it has deserved from the start.
The supposed Portuguese drugs miracle – in which giving up enforcing the law was supposedly followed by peace, love and joy – has ended, as it was bound to do, in squalor, crime and fear. And the endlessly praised Amsterdam dope experiment, in letting rip despite the law, has been rejected with disgust and regret by many of the people who live there. (For more go to Addiction Explodes and Pro-drug Policies Proved Wrong)
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