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For 50 years, zero tolerance to drugs has failed – yet Britain refuses to change | Drugs


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The 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act has needlessly criminalised thousands of people, and done nothing to tackle abuse
Marijuana grows at an indoor cannabis farm in Gardena, California. Photograph: Richard Vogel/AP
Marijuana grows at an indoor cannabis farm in Gardena, California. Photograph: Richard Vogel/AP
Fri 15 Jan 2021 04.00 EST
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A pandemic is gripping Europe with its centre in Great Britain. More than 3 million Britons caught it in 2019-20, of whom 5,657 died – a number that has quadrupled since 2013. Scotland’s death rate has soared to three and a half times that of the whole UK, and is the worst in Europe. Multiple cures are being tested round the world, but the British government opposes every one of them. ....

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