WHENEVER I hear calls for the criminalisation of an addiction as a method of prevention, I get nervous. I do so because such simplistic and harmful reasoning drove our response to the war on drugs in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Legislation was enacted and anti-drug enforcement and police powers strengthened. Traffickers were sentenced to death by hanging and thousands of drug users were detained and incarcerated for rehabilitation.
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