Deleted User 2893
Striker
Way to go missing the point completely. With your high levels of observation and insight have you ever considered a job with the Met Police?
How many assaults, thefts and murders have there been over the last forty years of our war on drugs are directly attributable to the drugs trade?
A succession of governments have ignored the fact that there are other options that might reduce the associated crimes that go with the drugs trade. Just so they can say "we are tougher on crime than the opposition". It hasn't worked for the last forty years but hey fuck it lets try for another forty years of the same failed policies it might work eventually.
A lot more than you think. Theft offences to fund drug habits, violence offences when people lose their sense of reality. People found in possession should be given one chance of a drugs counsellor to kick their habit, second offence it should be jail time and forced off drugs