Isn legal regulation just giving up?
Supporting legalisation and regulation means giving up on the fantasy that prohibition can achieve its objective of eliminating production, supply and usage of certain psychoactive substances. It means giving up on a failed ideological criminal-justice led policy and moving to a rational evidence led public health policy, enabling us to minimise the harm caused by drugs. Regulation offers the best policy outcomes on all key indicators; to reduce drug related harm, to protect children and other vulnerable people from dangerous drugs, to reduce drug related crime, and to spend our limited resources in the most cost effective manner. It is not giving up, it is removing an obstacle that is preventing us from even getting started.
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