UK to ‘consider legalising all drugs’ including cocaine and heroin

It’s About Time! –

Sept 16, 2019 – Data compiled by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and DrugPolicy, showed that 8 per cent of young adults admitted to smoking cannabis over the last year in a 2017 study, while the number rose to 12.3 per cent in the UK. Meanwhile at 0.4 per cent, the Iberian country has a lower rate of high-risk opioid use among the population than the UK, where 0.8 per cent of people are affected.

Labour MP David Lammy said he was pleased to see his party “commit to an evidence based approach on drug reform”. He added: “The war on drugs is funding gangs, fuelling crime, giving children easy access on social media and disproportionately criminalising working class young men.”

Full Story @ Independent.co.uk

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