It's About Bloody Time!

It's about bloody time that a first-world country began coming to its senses concerning the thoroughly imbecile, totally ineffective, cripplingly costly, almost half-century-old so-called "War On Drugs"; a source of evils more egregious than the imagined evil it's supposed to eradicate.

All illicit substances, including heroin and cocaine, should be legalised, according to a former [British] drugs minister who will today become the most senior [British] politician to push for a dramatic change in the strategy for tackling Britain's drug problems.

Bob Ainsworth will argue that it is better for addicts to receive their fixes on prescription rather than relying for their supply on the international criminal gangs that make billions of pounds from the trade.

RTWT here.

(Our thanks to the always indispensable Arts & Letters Daily for the link.)