{"id":3461,"date":"2023-01-18T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/the-war-we-never-fought-a-review-of-journalist-peter-hitchens-book\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T11:44:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:44:46","slug":"the-war-we-never-fought-a-review-of-journalist-peter-hitchens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/the-war-we-never-fought-a-review-of-journalist-peter-hitchens-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The War We Never Fought \u2013 a Review of Journalist Peter Hitchens Book."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">ustralia have done even less than a No War on Drugs in the past near 40 years of drug policy. Prohibiting dangerous, health and safety&nbsp; harming activities in the public, more importantly in private when it comes to psychotropic toxins, is the purview of any responsible government \u2013 Federal and down.&nbsp;<i>\u201cGovernments should aim to\u2026 a) Protect their citizens from harm. b) Provide environments that enable its citizens to reach their full productive potential.\u201d<\/i>&nbsp;Gus Jaspert The Deputy Director of UK Home Office speaking at the 3rd World Forum Against Drugs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Peter_Hitchens_WAR_WE_NEVER_FOUGHT_23-12-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">View PDF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><br \/>See also<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/36L0p2w_jtA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>Festival of Dangerous Ideas &#8211; Hitchens<\/b><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/d1r9bdsrv6vekg.cloudfront.net\/images\/resources\/pdf\/aod\/30Years_of_HarmMinimisation_FinalUNGASS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>30 Years of Harm Minimisation \u2013 How Far Have We Come?<\/b><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ustralia have done even less than a No War on Drugs in the past near 40 years of drug policy. Prohibiting dangerous, health and safety&nbsp; harming activities in the public, more importantly in private when it comes to psychotropic toxins, is the purview of any responsible government \u2013 Federal and down.&nbsp;\u201cGovernments should aim to\u2026 a) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dalgarno-institute-aod-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}