Daily: Our Chemical Romance – Ending the WAR ON DRUGS

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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With a decades-long failed War on Drugs behind us, is it finally time to accept the inevitable – and let the state regulate illegal substances? Steve Rolles, author and policy analyst at Transform Drug Policy Foundation, tells Ian Dunt how we can break a destructive deadlock. What would public health-oriented drugs policies look like? And what can we learn about what not to do from the commercialisation of alcohol and tobacco? “There is a growing consensus that the War on Drugs has failed…but no one agrees on what’s next.” “Prohibition encourages risky drug use. Regulation reverses that.” “We’re not talking about Ecstasy World Snooker. We’re talking about a strictly regulated market.” “A state monopoly model, with pharma-style vending. It’s not that difficult.” Presented by Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.0	My name is Ian Dunt. I'm the editor of Politics..
1:15.5	UK and the author of How to be a liberal and I'm joined today by Steve Rolds
1:19.2	fierce and hugely knowledgeable campaigner for drugs law reform who acts as senior policy analyst for the Transform Drugs Policy Foundation and the author of how to regulate stimulants a practical guide which was released this week.
1:32.0	Hello Steve, how are you?
1:33.0	I'm good, thank you.
1:35.0	Hello. Hello, hello.
1:36.0	Well, I'm going to obviously talk to you about drugs and drugs law reform,
1:39.0	but first of all, I think we do have something to discuss, isn't it?
1:41.0	Which I think I gather that we we both went to the same
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