Paging Mr Soros: I’d like my cheque now, please.

I don’t doubt that there would be costs were we to have more sensible (and philosophically agreeable) drug laws but one thing we might avoid is what’s happening here right now: in the last couple of weeks seven heroin users have been killed by anthrax-tainted smack.

But I don’t think Melanie need really worry too much. The Conservatives, if they win the election, are highly unlikely liberalise our drug laws. On the contrary they’re likely to double-down on a series of failed and failing policies whose principle merit is that they allow politicians to seem tough. Their “core” commitment to individual responsibility doesn’t extend to letting people make their own decisions on what drugs they wish to take.

Melanie also writes:

The lobby to liberalise drug policy in Britain is part of a global movement — financed in large measure by the apparently bottomless coffers of the westophobic financier George Soros — to bring down the UN drug laws, which commit signatory nations to the aim of eradicating the use of narcotics and thus underpin their criminalisation.