The Closing Engagements Of A Pointless War

[poliphilo]

William Hague (who I find it hard to think of as "Lord" Hague- remembering as I do the water splash and the baseball cap) is calling for the legalisation of recreational cannabis. If only he'd done it while he was still in office- and in a position to move things along.

But if the squarest man in Britain is for legalisation the thing itself can't be far away.

Legalisation will come. It's bound to come. It's long overdue. The War on Drugs (instituted, I believe, by Richard Nixon) has been a gigantic folly. And cruel, cruel, cruel....

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[oakmouse]

Yup, Nixon, building on Johnson's categorization of drug addiction as a form of mental illness. It's terribly cruel, and I'll be glad to see it break apart.

[poliphilo]

It's only a matter of time, I think....