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Drugs, drones and heat: Amber Rudd and David Lammy begin search for answers to prisons crisis
(www.theguardian.com)
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Treating drug use as a health and social issue rather than a lawful one might be a start.
Still too many outraged elderly people for this to work.
Fuck them. It does work, just because they're outraged about it doesn't change its efficacy.
Most of them are outraged because of government propaganda telling them "drugs are bad, mmkay", so the government can just spin up propaganda to support health intervention instead.