Sir Ian Gilmore Calls For Drugs To Be Decriminalised
Sir Ian Gilmore believes crime could be reduced and health improved if drug use was decriminalised.
Sir Ian is the outgoing president of the Royal College of Physicians and believes that drug laws need to be reviewed and drug supplies regulated.
The notion came as Sir Ian’s final act before stepping down as president of the RCP, but made clear in the email – sent to 25,000 members – that this was his own opinion and not that of the RCP.
“Everyone who has looked at this in a serious and sustained way concludes that the present policy of prohibition is not a success,” Sir Ian told the BBC.
“There are really strong arguments to look again.”
Sir Ian’s opinion comes from his time working as a liver specialist and seeing drug users come to accident and emergency units with hepatitis C contracted through intravenous drug use. He believes that many of the problems faced by hospital staff are caused not by drug use, but by prohibition.
“I personally back the chairman of the UK Bar Council, Nicholas Green QC, when he calls for drug laws to be reconsidered with a view to decriminalising illicit drugs use. This could drastically reduce crime and improve health,” he said in his email.
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In 2004 the Labour government stopped the trialling of a cure for hard drugs that is humane, perfectly safe, detoxifies in 48-72 hours, has no side effects as it is based on natural growing plants (Vietnam the country of origin is only one of two nations in the world that has the most biodiverse plant life on the planet by far) and where there is no ‘cold turkey’. Indeed the Labour Government snubbed the Vietnamese government that offered their hand of help. Now this curative treatment that has been developed jointly through leading scientists in Vietnam and Germany over the last 10 years on a scientific basis, is produced in high-tech laboratories in capsule form. Therefore instead of looking to decriminalise hard drugs and make them available to all, there is a curative treatment out there that our former government did not want to even test. A strange and funny old world that we live in really and where now we could have been seeing tens of thousands of UK drug addicts cured in Britain every year. But it has to be said that there is no greater foolishness than that of government or their so-called wise advisers in Whitehall. Indeed they go against even common sense itself.
Dr David Hill
Executive Director
World Innovation Foundation Charity
Bern, Switzerland