Is it time the UK decriminalised drugs?

Making personal use legal appears to have stopped Portugal's heroin epidemic, but there's a different story in the Czech Republic

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Britain's drug strategy has a clear aim: to "safeguard [the] vulnerable and stop substance misuse". But critics say its outdated methods fail to get to grips with the problem.

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