Pubdate: Thu, 25 Oct 2001
Source: Daily Telegraph (UK)
Copyright: 2001 Telegraph Group Limited
Contact:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/114
Author: Roger Taylor
Note: Newhawk's heading
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)

DRUGS TRADE DRIVEN BY ECONOMICS

SIR - David Blunkett's reclassification of cannabis merely adds to the rout 
which is the long-failed "war on drugs".   The drugs trade is driven purely 
by economics and he could, if he wished, destroy the bulk of it almost 
overnight by the simple expedient of allowing addicts to register with GPs 
and providing them with free drugs issued through pharmacies and controlled 
through smart-card technology.

There might actually be a net saving to the taxpayer due to reduced NHS 
costs and crime.

Roger Taylor
Meols
Wirral
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