UK - David Cameron knows the drug laws aren't working; his failure to change them is

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David Cameron knows the drug laws aren't working; his failure to change them is simple cowardice

Daily Telegraph

By Tom Chivers Science Last updated: February 15th, 2012

With reader comments

Let's play a game of make-believe. Pretend you're a Home Office minister. One of your European neighbours employs a radical public health policy and, 10 years later, has seen huge improvements in the measurements of all the relevant health outcomes. The evidence for the efficacy of that health policy is widespread; the British Medical Journal and World Health Organisation have both issued major pieces of research, along with one of the leading journals in the field, which say that in general the policy has positive effects. Further, the proposed policy is significantly cheaper than the existing one, and has the added bonus of giving more responsibility and freedom to individual citizens. What do you do?

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the defintion of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results..