Countless seminars, conferences and inquiries have tried to work out how best to tackle Britain’s booming drugs industry, legitimate and illicit. These people and not the addicts or dealers are Britain’s drugs problem. Led by Durham, one force after another is refusing to arrest its way out of the drugs problem. Yet, ever since devolution, the Home Office has refused to allow Scotland power to vary the 1971 drugs act. But it has failed utterly to win the war on drugs in Scotland.

Source: The Guardian July 19, 2019 05:01 UTC