Davies welcomes Clegg to drugs debate

Rochdale Euro-MP Chris Davies has welcomed the comments by Nick Clegg on the ‘War on Drugs’.

Mr Davies has consistently called for a fundamental rethink of drugs laws since before he was first elected to Parliament in 1995 in a by-election dominated by his views on cannabis.

Nick Clegg has said that there should be a Royal Commission to look at drugs laws in the UK and has stated that ‘we are losing the war on drugs on an industrial scale’.

Mr Davies said: “Nick Clegg has been brave enough to smash the conspiracy of slice that surrounds drugs laws in this country. 

“From Liverpool to Manchester and Warrington to Windermere, people know that the war on drugs only has one winner – the criminals who make billions from selling misery.

“Addicts are patients, not criminals and we need to rip up the current laws and start again. Prohibition doesn’t work.

“A system where the state takes control of drug supply, puts addicts in hospital rather than prison when they ask for help and removes the incentive for drug dealers to shift people from cannabis to crack will lead to fewer lives being blighted by drugs.”