SMH Letter

Fernando Henrique Cardoso is not alone in recommending that the war on drugs should end. What he fails to realise is that the insatiable demand for drugs by cashed up Western nations looking to alter their collective state of consciousness is so great that to acknowledge its extent is political poison. Add to this the burgeoning industries that have sprung up to counter the criminalisation of drugs. These would cease to make a nice living were illicit drugs off the banned list.