Our politicians need to frame a drugs policy that actually works

WHAT do David Cameron, Barack Obama and Leo Varadkar have in common?

All three have admitted to smoking cannabis. The Transport Minister made his admission a number of years ago in one of those cringey Hot Press interviews so beloved of politicians desperate to get down with the kids.

He is not alone. Many high-profile politicians, like “Biffo Spliffo” before him, readily admit to smoking cannabis in their debauched student days but very few, once in government and in a position to influence drug policy, will countenance its decriminalisation.