Drugs policy review
BBC News (UK)
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The influential Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) is to "undertake a comprehensive review of drugs policy in the new year". They are to ask whether the government's 2010 drug strategy is a "fiscally responsible policy with strategies grounded in science, health, security and human rights". The HASC is also going to investigate the criteria used by government to measure the efficacy of its drug policies. The growing chorus of international establishment figures who argue that prohibition has proved a failed policy appears to have led the committee to ask some searching questions about the effectiveness of Britain's drugs strategy.
