Britain has not simply fallen out of love with illegal drugs
The government has based its refusal to set up a royal commission on the shaky premise that drug use is falling
The Guardian (UK)
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" summed up the response from the Home Office, and later David Cameron, to the publication of the home affairs select committee's year-long inquiry into drug policy last week. Why waste time on setting up a royal commission into drug policy (something his coalition partners, in contrast, went on to call for) when our current drug policy is working? The key evidence for this, quoted like a mantra by the government, is falling drug use. But the "falling drug use" plank on which the government is walking is a very shaky one.
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