Given that the subject of drugs has cropped up in the news today, I think I will flag this entry up again. I stand by what I wrote there: the solution to the problem of drugs is not blunt criminalisation, but tolerance and understanding. To see the tories just dismiss the report calling for a more balanced approach – one on channel four news claiming it had been spun by the lib dems, and in fact supported their intolerant stance – simply goes to show how myopic and pig-headed they are. If you ask me, conservatism does more damage to society than any drug could.