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Whilst I always welcome the opportunity to debate the issue of drugs and drug abuse, I am a firm believer that the case for the liberalisation of the current drugs policy has not been made.
Each of us must have concern for those who suffer the horrors of addiction and we must do all that is possible to assist them to recover from their addiction: facilitating the use of drugs is not the way to assist them.
The current UN Conventions set out clear guidelines for all countries to apply their own national law and enforcement procedures. Despite what some may say, these actions have been successful in helping to reduce the supply, exchange information on best practice and intelligence on the activities of drug trafficking and drug dealers.
How best do we serve this purpose? By facilitating them in harming themselves or assisting them to avoid putting themselves in danger? I believe that we must protect people as much as possible from the dangers of drugs.
Lastly, at a time when we rightly seek to inform people of the dangers of tobacco and to reduce tobacco use, it seems illogical to me that we would seek to legislate for the liberalisation of drugs."@en1
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