Drug legalisation is the last thing we need

“It’s easy to think that legalising “recreational” drugs is the answer: just replace the gangs and stabbings with businesspeople and slick advertising. Yet almost none of the police I talked to during a Times investigation into crime and teenagers wanted cannabis or cocaine to be legalised. The same was true of the vast majority of social workers, teachers and doctors who have first-hand experience of the damage drugs can do,” Alice Thomson writes.