Geoffrey Alderman writes in the Guardian about
What next – penalising students for taking caffeine?
For the past 90 years this debate has been dominated by the professional purveyors of moral panic in our society – a toxic combination of politicians, pressmen, prelates and policemen, aided and abetted by ill-informed parents, who have sought to pre-empt any serious discussion of “psychoactive” substances.
That’s in the U.K.
Meanwhile,
AP IMPACT: US drug war has met none of its goals: