THE Home Affairs Committee report on drugs is really an appraisal of the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act and the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
The former dictated the regime under which people with drug addiction have been persecuted, isolated and disenfranchised from mainstream society.
The emphasis must be on the support and treatment and before we can do that, we need to remove the threat of prosecution for using drugs. Law enforcement agencies have a very important role to play but it mustn’t get in the road of patients accessing treatment. It stated that:"Overall, our examination of the processes used by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and Home Office to make, respectively, recommendations and decisions regarding the classification of drugs has revealed a disconcertingly ad hoc approach to determining when reviews should be undertaken and a worrying lack of transparency in how classification decisions are made."IT is good to see the report call for more evidence from abroad to be considered.
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