http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...de-drugs/print
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"Transform believes the case for overhauling the prohibition approach to drugs is now overwhelming. It quotes Nicholas Green, chairman of the Bar Council, who observed that drug-related crime costs the UK economy around £13bn a year. "Decriminalising personal use can have positive consequences; it can free up huge amounts of police resources, reduce crime and recidivism and improve public health," he said."
Quite a few former leaders are pushing for legalization/decriminalization. Current leaders no doubt are to afraid of seeming soft on so called crime.
I would love to be at the Waldorf Astoria for this conference.
I still am baffled why anyone would still back the new growing privatized federal prison system and its reliance on current drug laws to keep it afloat and growing.
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