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Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas possession becomes illegal
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Criminalising the users has worked so well with other drugs, hasn't it? The war on drugs will be won any second now...
drugs have already won. this is just a rearguard action before more sensible policy comes in. the UK is far behind on decriminalisation.
There's already evidence in the UK that a progressive approach works, but it has been forgotten about. Middlesbrough police trialled a scheme where they provided heroin users with their fix. All of a sudden, the users stopped committing offences to raise money for their habit, which in turn deprived dealers of a lucrative source of income.
It's not been forgotten about it's been buried. They were not happy when they were advise to reclassify marijuana as a class C. That's where we got the famous line "the public are tired of experts" from.