Rethinking our attitude to drugs

By Michael Short
December 10 2012 - 3:00am
Luke O'Connor believes prohibition has failed.
Luke O'Connor believes prohibition has failed.
Luke O'Connor.
Luke O'Connor.

ILLICIT drugs are widely viewed with fear and loathing. Parents, in particular, are understandably terrified their children will become addicted to headline-grabbing horrors including heroin and methamphetamine and crack cocaine. Alcohol and other drugs are known to be extremely hazardous to the developing brains of young people.

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