Damien

I know they're are some discussions about this in the US as well. They've had the infamous 'war on drugs' which people are increasingly accepting has been a disaster of a policy. Greatly increased prison rates for relatively minor offences because they're drug related, mandatory minimums which also increased rates but primary in poorer ethnic communities, and all at a massive expense.

It's achieved nothing other than being an expensive way to ruin lives - quite like the drugs themselves.

I am not sure if the same lessons apply here though. We've been a bit more pragmatic than that. Legalising it would send a message that these substances are ok which wouldn't help but maybe we need to quietly tone down the effort spent on minor drug taking for personal use.