UK - Transform call for drug policy analysis. You can help

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Copied from the Transform website as SWIM thinks that this campaign is very much worth supporting. If SWIY is a UK residennt and has a few minutes to spare please do this.

Help end the Drugs War: Force the Government to reveal the truth

The prohibition of drugs has terrible consequences for millions of individuals, communities and entire countries that far outweigh any benefits that it is supposed to bring. The Government knows it, but for short-term political gain, refuses to even reconsider the war on drugs.

They know, as Joseph McNamara, former police chief of Kansas City, put it: " The drug war cannot stand the light of day. It will collapse ...as soon as people find out what's really going on ."

So the Government is determined to keep us in the dark. Which is why when (the now former) Home Office Minister Bob Ainsworth MP was asked to audit drug law enforcement to see how effective it really is, he refused, saying; "Why would we want to do that unless we were going to legalise drugs?"

Whatever position anyone takes on drugs, all reasonable people must support Government policy being based on facts not fiction. The Government must carry out comprehensive research comparing the costs and benefits of drug prohibition policies with alternatives, including a legal regulation and control approach.

Shockingly this has NEVER been done ANYWHERE. Why? Because the result will be a torch so bright the whole world will see the truth about the War on Drugs.

And you can help make it happen!

Please write to your MP demanding they call on the Government to do this research.

* If you have five minutes download this template letter - http://www.tdpf.org.uk/MPletterFinal.doc , add your name, address and MP, and send it off, or send it through http://www.writetothem.com

* If you have a little longer, personalise the letter by changing the wording first

* For more information, including who your MP is, visit http://www.tdpf.org.uk/Letter_to_MP.html

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