Gambia: Drug Policy - Rethink It Without Taboos!

21 October 2020
opinion

Much of the harm caused by illegal drugs is caused by their illegality. Prohibition helps to turn users into criminals, and the justice system is poorly equipped to help addicts recover.

This is not a controversial opinion in the fields of public health and policing - services on the frontline of the problem - but it is far from orthodoxy in Westminster.

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