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Firstly, the less dangerous drugs, tobacco, alcohol, cannabis and some of the psychotropics. (Tobacco and alcohol are only less dangerous in that they are unlikely to kill you quickly and in the short-term. In the long-term and in more than limited use, there is a very good chance of them contributing to the timing and manner of your death.) Secondly, those drugs which are used by very significant proportions of the population. There is no sense in criminalising about half of the young people in a population. The benefit of removing the law's concern over these drugs is that it would remove the link that currently exists through organised crime between the less harmful illegal drugs and their much more harmful counterparts.

5. Finally, it is possible to reduce demand for the more harmful drugs. Not by changing human nature which we have already said is impossible, but rather through taking the most addictive of these drugs, heroin, and providing it free to addicts. This would remove these addicts from the area of influence of the dealers and remove the incentive for dealers to operate. This would remove both the motivation for trafficking and also the epidemic of petty and not-so-petty crime that is currently conducted by addicts in search of their next fix.

The legal war against drug trafficking has failed. Currently, every time the forces of law and order have a success against traffickers, it merely reduces supply and puts the price up, thereby increasing the potential profit to be made by trafficking in future! It is time to recognise the reality of this failure of the war against drugs, to recognise the reality of human nature, and to work to remove the motivations for trafficking. Then the trafficking will cease.

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