The drug zealot I exposed a decade ago and how the BBC’s promoting his plan for heroin ‘shooting galleries’

So who is behind this travesty of a proposal? Step forward the ‘independent drug commission’ – which actually possesses not a shred of credibility, being merely a group of ten people ostensibly aiming to reduce Brighton’s drug problem, but actually providing a front for drug liberalisation.

This ‘commission’ was set up at the prompting of Green MP and would-be drug legaliser Caroline Lucas. Chaired by crime writer Peter James, its vice-chairman and leading light is none other than the notorious Mike Trace.
Mr Trace was appointed deputy drug czar under Tony Blair. In 2003, however, he was forced to resign from a key appointment as Head of Demand Reduction at the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime.

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