Legalisation

Legalisation is not a cure-all but it does allow us to address many of the problems associated with drug use, and those created by prohibition.

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Legalisation, though clearly better for producer countries, would bring (different) risks to consumer countries.

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Legalisation would enable us to regulate the market, determine a much lower price and remove users need to raise funds through crime.

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Legalisation returns lost revenue to the legitimate taxed economy and removes some of the high-level corruption.

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Legalisation accepts that drug use is normal and that it is a social issue, not a criminal justice one.

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Legalisation forces organised crime from the drugs trade, starves them of income and enables us to regulate and control the market (i.e. prescription, licensing, laws on sales to minors, advertising regulations etc.) 3.

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Legalisation removes a whole set of laws that are used to disproportionately bring black people into contact with the criminal justice system.

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Legalisation would help us to disseminate open, honest and truthful information to users and non-users to help them to make decisions about whether and how to use.

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Legalisation would effectively make heroin, etc, vastly more accessible and therefore cheap.

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Legalisation restores our right to use drugs responsibly to change the way we think and feel.

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