Posted AT 12:28 AM EDT on 01/10/07
Get-tough plan on drugs doomed, experts say
Canada's war on drugs is about to escalate. But as the federal Conservative governments prepares to unveil a new strategy that cracks down on illicit drug users, critics say they are ignoring a mountain of research that shows the get-tough approach doesn't work.
“This is a failed approach. The experiment is done. The science is in,” says Thomas Kerr, a researcher at the University of British Columbia and member of the university's faculty of medicine.
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