‘Safe’drugs? Perhaps politicians as well as people are skeptical

Drug policy has become ‘a taboo area’; politicians lack the ‘courage’ to contradict ‘crude’ assertions about going ‘soft’ on drugs; “’kneejerk’ opposition to change is allowed to continue unchallenged”. So Baroness Manningham Buller would have us believe. This is why politicians won’t take up her confused pro drug legalisation and decriminalisation cause. But the language of last weeks public relations offensive was reminiscent of the debate on Global warming; ’emerging consensus’ (when there is no such thing), ‘all experts agree’ (when they don’t), writes Kathy Gyngell, Centre for Policy Studies, in Britain.