Drug legalisation will save £14bn says new report

The regulated legalisation of drugs would have major benefits for taxpayers, victims of crime, local communities and the criminal justice system, says a new report

A report commissioned by Transform, a drug reform charity, claims to be the first comprehensive comparison between the cost-effectiveness of legalisation and prohibition. The authors of the report, published this week, suggest that a legalised, regulated market could save the country around £14bn.

For many years the government has been under pressure to conduct an objective cost-benefit analysis of the current drugs policy, but has failed to do so despite calls from MPs. Now the drugs reform charity, Transform, has commissioned its own report, examining all aspects of prohibition from the costs of policing and investigating drugs users and dealers to processing them through the courts and their eventual incarceration.

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Read more about Transform at www.tdpf.org.uk