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The first priority when it comes to drugs is to make them less likely to kill people. As we now know, this is not achieved by simply telling them drugs are bad and trying to arrest drug dealers, because it's not drug dealers killing people. On the contrary: The first rule of selling drugs after "make a profit" is "don't kill off your customers." What is killing people is isolation, both from the kind of services that can help them stay alive and from basic life-saving information.Read: Inside the Secret World of a British Undercover Drugs Cop
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In 2016, the UK Home Office's drug advice website Frank stands as a woeful attempt at protecting drug users. Despite its moniker, it is unable to offer frank advice because the government is petrified of being seen to encourage drug use. It can't advise people to take small doses—that's far too risqué. Tens of thousands of responses to the Global Drug Survey (GDS) show that drug users disregard the website.Read on Broadly: See the Biggest Weed Pipe in the World
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