Crime lords hit a new high thanks to our head-banger drugs strategy

ALBERT Einstein’s defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” It is a fitting description of our drug strategy in this country.

Christy Kinahan, the reputed mastermind of the drugs gang broken up in Spain, Britain and Ireland during the past week, was in and out of jail between 1987 and 2001. He then moved to Spain and the police there have been suggesting he has amassed a fortune of between €100m and €500m from drug dealing in less than a decade.

It seems people are suddenly waking up to our drug problem, just as they have had to face up to the horrors of the banking crisis and the bursting of the property bubble. Vincent Browne was discussing the possibility of legalising drugs like heroin and cocaine this week.