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The prohibition of drugs has been an abject failure with a devastating human cost

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By James Bloodworth
Health, Notebook - A selection of Independent views -, Opinion
Wednesday, 29 February 2012 at 11:54 am

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Forty years ago, on 28 January 1972, President Richard Nixon signed his “war on drugs” into law. Drugs were “public enemy number one,” said Nixon, and action was necessary because addiction to narcotics had “assumed the dimensions of a national emergency”.

Four decades on, and the global clampdown on drugs continues unabated. From London to Bogota to Kabul, the same disastrous policies are being repeated with the same destructive consequences. As a Global Commission on Drug Policy report released in June 2010 argued, the global war on drugs has resulted in “devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world”.
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Most opponents of prohibition would refrain from claiming that legalisation would provide a definitive solution to the problem of drug abuse. What we would argue, however, is that decriminalisation (at a minimum) is, unlike prohibition, not mired in political fantasy. Those of us who believe prohibition to have failed live in the real world – a place there will always be, and always have been, people who experiment with drugs. The alternative, if you can call it that, is to settle for the status quo with its colossal human cost for another 40 years.
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