The Lib Dem leader says attempts to criminalise drug use have failed
Nick Clegg will today say that the Liberal Democrats will bring forward plans to decriminalise drugs for personal use. In a joint press article with Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson, Clegg will say that attempts to criminalise drug use had proved an ‘abject failure’:
“The idea of eradicating drugs from the world by waging a war on those who use them is fundamentally flawed for one simple reason: it doesn’t reduce drug taking,” they write in the Guardian today.
However Mary Brett of the charity Skunk Sense told the Daily Mail that there was a ‘severe contradiction’ between the proposed policy and Clegg’s concern with mental health.
So what do you think: is Nick Clegg right to call for the decriminalisation of all drugs? Has the so-called ‘war on drugs’ been the abject failure it is increasingly made out to have been? Have your say in our weekly survey. Results will be published early next week.
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14 Responses to “Poll: Is Nick Clegg right to call for the decriminalisation of all drugs?”
Ulysses Jefferson
I might go along with Clogg if ALL MPs,Judges, Coppers,Drs, Nurses, Bank Managers, Civil Servants, HGV / Bus, Coach and Train Drivers and many other were subject to random on the spot testing and dismissal. He should be more concerned with the cultural problems that religion is gonna dump on the UK very soon.
Craig
Tying a poll to mandatory email giving is just going to result in a lot of fake email addresses being giving.
Chris
You mean…decriminalisation?
Leon Wolfeson
Nope. Do read up on the Portugese model!