more on cannabis decriminalisation

After California decriminalized marijuana, teen arrest, overdose and dropout rates fell. Read more here.

no direct link between being tough on drugs and tackling the problem

The UK government’s comparison of international drug laws, published on Wednesday last week, represents the first official recognition since the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act that there is no direct link between being “tough on drugs” and tackling the problem. The full report is available here.