Why not? Current policy doesn't work and has been a waste of tens of billions of pounds worldwide. The 'war on drugs' will never be won so it's a fruitless exercise continuing with it. Nobody is advocating that you would be able to freely buy hard drugs down the local newsagents. What people who favour legalisation favour is drug policy being treated as a health matter rather than a criminal matter. People would be treated properly for their addiction and not left to fend for themselves and at the mercy of drug dealers.
The only people who benefit from the current situation are the drug dealers.
Don't you think it's ridiculous that drugs that have zero recorded deaths are illegal yet drugs which kill 100's thousands a year are legal? The last government criminalised magic mushrooms. So now rather than going to a shop and speaking to somebody who knows what they're taking about and getting solid advice, people who want to try it now have to go and find them themselves which is potentially very dangerous. Criminalising things doesn't reduce demand, so why don't they just make it safer for everyone involved?
MDMA is another drug which is vilified in the press when in fact it's a fairly safe drug. The vast majority of deaths from ecstasy come from contaminated drugs that have been mixed with crap or from dehydration/hyponatremia because the user hasn't been educated on how to use the drugs and has only been fed false scare stories in the tabloid press. Under legalisation for instance, ecstasy would be regulated and people would be educated on there safe use. This is far safer than what currently happens.
Some people need to open their eyes a bit and realise that the vast majority of people who take drugs are just normal people, who hold down respectable jobs and lead normal lives. For whatever reason people often prefer to smoke cannabis or take magic mushrooms, rather than drink 10 pints down the local. What's the problem?
This article is interesting..http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5230006.stm
