Growing movement to end the war on drugs

A global group of leaders wants to end what it says is a failed policy and instead focus on legalising use and putting people’s health first, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill

IT IS time to abandon the idea of a “drug free world”, according to a team of world political and business leaders.

Half a century of trying to rid the world of illegal drugs has simply built massive criminal empires, killed millions of people, wasted billions of government euro and increased the problems, the group states.