A new report published today has shown what we already knew - the government has failed on its drug policy. It seems that the more the government has intervened, the worse the problem has got. "The prices of the principal drugs in Britain have declined for most of the last 10 years and there is no indication that tougher enforcement has succeeded in making drugs less accessible" the reports states. The report put Britain as having the second worse drug problem in Europe. The total value of the UK market for illicit drugs is estimated at £5bn a year. All very depressing stuff. The Government's tough yet failed stance on hard drugs has meant that drugs and subsequently violent crime is pretty much out of control in areas of the UK. I am not entirely sure I understand the Government's drug strategy, it seems one minute they are "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" and the next they are down grading cannabis. The whole strategy is a mess, one that they keep tinkering with and going no-where on. It's pretty demonstrative of this government at large - the more they interfere with a problem (even if the genuine best interests are at heart) the more wrong they seem to get it.
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