War on drugs failed?
War on Drugs! We haven’t had a war on drugs since the introduction of Harm Minimisation policies and the subsequent ‘hijacking’ of that policy platform by the one dimensional drug use promoting Harm Reduction strategy.
Let’s do a quick juxtapose; Poverty, child exploitation, crime, assault, murder, rape – these things continue to be a plague in our even ‘advanced’ western cultures and often don’t diminish and even increase at times, but at no point do functional, sane people declare attempts to combat or curb these social blights futile, and that one clear experimental option we haven’t tried and need to, is decriminalising such behaviour!
The ‘decriminalisation experiment’ is not for the benefit of the current and emerging generations mental, physical and social health or even community well-being, rather it is to assuage the cries of drug addled hedonists or nihilistic self-destructive pursuits of a few libertine social experimenters. In this cacophony of pseudo-intellectual ‘rationalism’ we are tacitly urged to abandon a generation to a social experiment which only legacy will be community, familial and individual loss and tragedy.
Shane Varcoe – Executive Director
Dalgarno Institute, Australia
