Former Top MI6 Officer Attacks Global War On Drugs -- The Guardian
• Prohibition promotes insecurity and crime
• Poor states pay the price for black market, says study published by respected thinktank
Suggestions that the drug laws need changing, that the global war on drugs has failed, are invariably put down to woolly, liberal, or maverick, thinking. What will be the response then when the suggestions come from a former deputy head of MI6 in a study published by such an established and venerable thinktank as the International Institute for Strategic Studies?
"Drugs have been the commodity which more than any other has primed the pump for the massive rise in organised criminality witnessed since the end of the cold war", writes Nigel Inkster, former MI6 director of operations and intelligence, and author, with Virginia Comolli, of Drugs, Insecurity and Failed States published by the IISS this week.
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WNU Editor: The IISS report is here.
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