Blog posts tagged "Drugs"

July 5, 2010 9:00 am 16 Comments

I spent Sunday in the Solent on a boat sailed by my cousin Peter. A good wind in our sails, choppy seas, and glorious unbroken sunshine as we sped past the glistening white Needles. There was hardly another  boat in sight. I wondered why, and suddenly remembered the Men’s Final at Wimbledon was on. Must [...]

March 30, 2010 11:51 am 39 Comments

Jon Snow blogs about his interview with Home Secretary Alan Johnson on Mephedrone

November 2, 2009 5:57 pm No Comments

Alan Johnson's gift to personkind might be to re-engage Professor David Nutt and join with him in calling a halt to a bankrupt method of handling the drugs disaster

March 12, 2009 6:34 pm 4 Comments

There really must be another way. According to The Economist, 5 per cent of the world’s population abuses drugs. Yet the UN conference in Vienna has offered no new routes to combating this world-trashing menace. The Economist, for the second time in 20 years, calls for wholesale legalisation. In a recession the mere tax take [...]

11:28 am No Comments

Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, eats a coca leaf in front of the UN drug committee meeting in Vienna (see video below). He complains about the continuing war on what is a natural product in his country. We have discussed drugs here before. We have not been prepared to admit that the war on drugs [...]

February 18, 2009 11:27 pm No Comments

The news that the British military has recovered heroin in Afghanistan with a street value in the UK of £50m once again throws the whole issue of drugs and money centre stage. Of course, the drug locally in Afghanistan would have nothing like that value – perhaps, some experts say, a few thousand dollars at [...]