Well, well, well. While the issue of drug decriminalisation has reared its head in recent months thanks to an intervention by London mayor Sadiq Khan, there aren’t all that many politicians who have advocated for the legalisation of illicit substances. That hasn’t put off the Economist which, in a leader titled ‘Brute force is no match for today’s high-tech drug-runners’, called for the, er, legalisation of cocaine. Talk about radical, eh?

The column, published last week, described how Donald Trump was using ‘military force and unprecedented violence’ in his war on drugs – before explaining how success was likely to elude the US President thanks to the new narcotics industry becoming ‘more innovative and nebulous than ever’. Illegal drugs kill around 600,000 people a year with opioid ov

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