Wednesday, April 20, 2005

'End war on drugs'/ Socialist Worker, 23 Apr 2005

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6293
"There is a radical alternative to drugs prohibition, says Steve Rolles of think tank Transform, but the mainstream parties are ignoring it. Only a few decades ago, problematic drug users were treated in the UK for what they were, people desperately in need of help. Prohibition, in contrast, turns the majority of those without substantial private means into criminal outcasts."