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: Sentencing Law and Policy

Top UK official calling for total drug legalization

By Douglas A. Berman

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As detailed in this article from across the pond, which is headlined, "Legalise all drugs, says former Labour Home Office minister," there is a former UK official once deeply involved in the war on drugs now urging a complete surrender.  Here are the details: Bob Ainsworth MP, who ran the Home Office's drugs policy between 2001 and 2003, will say that drug trade should be taken away from criminals and handed to doctors and pharmacists. The sale of drugs would regulated, under Mr Ainsworth's plan, with the most dangerous being proscribed by doctors. He told The Daily Telegraph last night: "I am not a libertarian. I don't believe that you should buy heroin on street corners and get yourself zonked out. But we have to treat this as a medical problem...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 16, 2010 (boomark / email).

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