The war on the truth about drugs
So sentencing for some offences will be reduced – but we're still left with an unscientific drug policy obsessed with 'the message'
The Guardian (UK)
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
What's the smallest unit of celebration? A whooplet? I need one to mark the news that sentencing for drug offences, in some cases, will be shortened. Following new guidelines from the sentencing council from the end of February those found to have bought drugs to share with friends rather than to profit from them, and those found to have imported drugs under duress, can expect to be locked up slightly less often, and for slightly less long.
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