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Richmond upon Thames Liberal Democrats:Covering the constituencies of Twickenham and Richmond Park |
Huppert quizzes Cameron
July 2, 2011 11:53 AM
• [Jun 29] Julian Huppert (Cambridge, Liberal Democrat): DOES the Prime Minister believe that drugs policy has been failing for decades as he said in 2005 and does he agree that the Government should initiate a discussion of alternative ways, including the possibility of legalisation and regulation, to tackle the global drugs dilemma, as he voted for in 2002?
David Cameron (Prime Minister; Witney, Conservative): I do not believe that we should legalise any drugs that are currently criminal, but I do believe that drugs policy has been a failure over recent years. There has been insufficient attention to the two key areas of education--warning people of the dangers of drugs--and treatment. One of the ways to collapse the drugs market is to have a more effective treatment system. In this country particularly, we have spent too much time on heroin replacement and methadone rather than on trying to get people clean and clear up all the things in their lives that perhaps cause them to take drugs in the first place.
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