It’s time to make drugs legal, Nobel winners tell Cameron - Telegraph UK

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David Cameron has been urged to consider legalising drug use by a group of 60 major thinkers and celebrities including Sting, Yoko Ono and the former American president Jimmy Carter.
By Rowena Mason, Political Correspondent12:58AM GMT 19 Nov 2011
In a letter to the Prime Minister and every member of Parliament, the public figures claim the “global war on drugs has failed”.
The roll-call of eminent names includes seven former presidents, 12 Nobel Prize winners and six British MPs.
Their letter says the illicit drug industry, worth £285 billion a year, is the third most valuable in the world after food and oil.
It calls for a debate on “decriminalising” the world’s 250 million drug users and asks Mr Cameron to start a public conversation with other global leaders.
The group claims that drug use should be treated as a medical problem, rather than a criminal one.
They urge world leaders to act now, because “use of the major controlled drugs has risen, and supply is cheaper, purer and more available than ever before”.
One of the signatories is Prof David Nutt, the former chief government drugs adviser, who was asked to resign in 2009 over his claims that Ecstasy was less dangerous than alcohol.
Sir Richard Branson, Prof Niall Ferguson, the historian, and Prof A C Grayling, the philosopher, have also signed the letter, which says: “We must seriously consider shifting resources away from criminalising tens of millions of otherwise law abiding citizens, and move towards an approach based on health, harm-reduction, cost-effectiveness and respect for human rights.
Evidence consistently shows that these health-based approaches deliver better results than criminalisation.”
The purpose of the letter, co-ordinated by the Beckley Foundation, a charity that promotes drug policy reform, is to challenge the “current taboo on everything surrounding drugs”.
Mr Cameron may be sympathetic to calls for a new approach to drugs. In 2002, he urged the Labour government “not to return to retribution and war on drugs”, adding “that has been tried and we all know that it does not work”.
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Every time a real study comes out it's shot down with the same lies and propaganda. Really sad to me to see that happen, but it's a fact of life when dealing with drug laws.

This is the new civil rights, universal suffrage, LGBT rights, etc. issue for our day.
 
If anyone is interested you can google L.E.A.P. which stands for law enforcement against prohobition. It has judges,prosecutors,cops,ect.. they are all for decriminalization or total legalization.

it sickens me when I see all the killings in mexico and around the world over drugs, we spend billions trying to stop it and put millions of non violent drug offenders like me in prison.

When it could all stop with the passing of one law, if sold over the counter as it all used to be then all this killing and wasting of billions of dollars and ruining millions of lives by imprisoning users would stop, and how much money could be made as is with alcohol.
 
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