Tag: legalisation

“So you condone illegal drugs then?” – A Response

Following my posting of “Coloradans Light Up 2014: Sale of marijuana for personal use legalised“, I was challenged: “So you condone illegal drugs then?”  My response follows: The question of whether I “condone illegal drugs” presumes a relationship between one or more specific drugs and the law in a...

Coloradans Light Up 2014: Sale of marijuana for personal use legalised

High up in the Rockies, the good people of the State of Colorado are taking a bold, freedom-orientated step – a step that will also start to reduce the individual, familial, community and wider social harms done by making drugs illegal. For today, just over 80 years after the...

War on Drugs Causes Drug Mules…

This story has all the ingredients for a great story: two young, attractive young women arrested in South America with huge quantities of cocaine in their luggage as they try to fly back to Europe’s party capital.  For the tabloids, the girls’ forlorn faces gazing out makes great copy;...