Euro-MP joins calls for drug decriminalisation

Chris Davies MEP

Chris Davies MEP has added his voice to those of Sir Richard Branson, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and three former chief constables in calling for an end to the criminalisation of drug use.

He said: “Chicago gangster Al Capone did well out of US alcohol prohibition in the 1920s, but legions of his kind now make a fortune out of 21st century drugs prohibition on a world-wide scale. They corrupt officials, undermine governments, and make a laughing stock of police forces across the world.”

“If people could buy cannabis from a chemist, they wouldn’t need to buy it from a heroin dealer. If Tesco supplied pot, the profits wouldn’t go to terrorists.”