More from the Handbag
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Liz Young (see earlier post) wrote a piece for the Guardian in 1997 on how drugs prohibition and the criminalisation of addicts was having an opposite and startlingly negative impact on society. It's a well-researched and cogently argued article (and follows on from an earlier piece she did for the paper in 1994.
At one point, where she bemoans the fact that the UK dropped a more successful (i.e. liberal) approach and asopted the 'war on drugs' approach of the US she says this:
If only that were true solely in the arena of drugs usage and punishment.
At one point, where she bemoans the fact that the UK dropped a more successful (i.e. liberal) approach and asopted the 'war on drugs' approach of the US she says this:
We are all of us now, drug-users or not, finally face to face with the results of the US's moral arrogance and malign influence.
If only that were true solely in the arena of drugs usage and punishment.
