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"Just say no" is not an "alternative approach" to the drug problem. It's been tried – and it doesn't work

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 05/30/2014 - 14:46

Dr Hans-Christian Raabe, who was removed from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs after one month, this week wrote two rather provocative articles on the Conservative Woman website. Aside from claiming that the British Medical Journal is, in effect, corrupt for running an in-depth article about the public health impacts of various emerging models of legal cannabis regulation around the world, which my Transform colleague, Steve Rolles, was asked to provide some fact-checking support on, Raabe’s main argument is that a better, “alternative approach to the drug problem” would be to create a “drug-free society”. As the headline of the article says, “Our drugs dilemma is all in the mind. We just need the will to say No.”

It’s not a very innovative solution, though. After all, punitive, zero-tolerance, abstinence-based approaches have been the dominant drug policy model in most parts of the...

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