I read today that Constable Mike Barton of Durham Police proposed that Class A drugs should be decriminalised and drug addicts treated and cared for not criminalised. I just want to say that I agree with him: while I am, let us say, slightly more experienced since I last blogged on the subject, as I wrote here, we need to legalise drugs, bring them away from the underground in order to control and regulate their use. If they remain underground they remain dangerous. I’m glad somebody has finally pointed this out; at least it gave me an opportunity to refer back to one of my old blog entries, too.