UK - In Colombia, David Cameron's stance on drugs looks cynical

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Fidel Cano Correa
The Observer, Saturday 15 December 2012 17.55 GMT

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The prime minister's belief that the war on drugs is working ignores Britain's complicity in the trade.

Twenty-six years ago, on 17 December 1986, my uncle, Guillermo Cano Isaza, editor of the Colombian daily newspaper, El Espectador, was killed by gunmen paid by Pablo Escobar and his drug trafficking cartel. He had led a journalistic crusade to denounce the corruptive and violent power of drug trafficking. He paid with his life. The newspaper he edited was bombed and became a target as we lived through the bloody years of the so-called "war on drugs".
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It is disappointing, then, to hear that David Cameron has decided to reject the report of a cross-party committee on the UK's drug policy, published last week, which recommended the establishment of a royal commission to review UK drug policies and explore alternatives, such as decriminalisation and legalisation. The prime minister has decided to move in precisely the opposite way from where the world is, and should be, heading.
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That same cynicism is evident in David Cameron's defence of the current policy, "which actually is working in Britain", he says. That policy is not working in the world. Colombia shows concrete advances in, for example, a decrease of 60% in hectares cultivated for coca during the past decade or a similar drop in homicides. But how could anybody go from there to say that the war on drugs "is working"? Consumption keeps growing and other countries – Mexico among them – are now following the same painful path that Colombia went through several years ago.
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Just the same as it always is, UK politicians not having a clue about what they are talking about.
 
It's pretty much a requirement to be clueless, and to not give a single fuck about it. Eton and Oxbridge toffs are completely bereft of common sense (and common decency for that matter.)
 
^^^
ur that addicted that u would move because of drugs? :P

I cant beleive people seem surprised every time we here this shit. It's allready come out along time ago that the government used crack to control minorities in the U.S, cannabis is only getting a little tolerance because everyone has found out what the government didnt want you to know, that its a harmless fucking drug. In my native Denmark, they have only recently opened injecting rooms whilst prescription heroin has been available for years... does that make sense? it was just easyer to give the junkies who kept fucking up and spending government money on rehab and commiting crime when they could keep them under control by giving them theyre gear in a government facility and wait for them to slowly die but keep it low key and shut them the hell up. Drugs are sold in open air markets under the nose of cops but theyre main priority is keeping it 20 block perimetre. I hate conspiracys but thats facts and for the people who are hoping for complete decriminalization whilst i value your positivity i have to tell you that its going to take many years and we will probably have a world war 3 before then.
 
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