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Front page of the Times today...

Smoking cannabis is no worse than eating junk food or gambling, according to a major report to be published today that calls for drug-taking to be decriminalised. The report, by experts including scientists and former senior police officers, says that illegal drugs are good for some people and that taking them is no different to moderate drinking. Calling for an overhaul of drug laws, the experts argue that the 50-year global “war on drugs” has failed and that a new approach is needed. But their demand that politicians accept that many Britons enjoy taking drugs and that drugs laws should be reformed will be strongly resisted at Westminster, where the Government remains opposed to decriminalisation. Police leaders, a former head of MI5 and the Government’s drugs advisers have questioned the current approach…

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