When Russell Brand and Richard Branson are helping shape drug policy, something’s gone horribly wrong

From the carefully-placed story in a Sunday paper over the weekend, you’d think that today’s report from the Home Affairs Select Committee had come out with all guns blazing for the legalisation of drugs.That’s because the leak was intended to create an impression of an overwhelming move towards such a revolutionary change in policy.In fact, the report does not spell out this agenda so explicitly. What it does recommend, however, is something whose only purpose is to bring about drug legalisation — while pretending all the time to be moderate and responsible in order not to frighten the horses.

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