Our drug laws have long been justified on the grounds that they protect children and young people. However, far from protecting this most vulnerable of groups, they expose them to even greater risks.
This briefing from the Count the Costs initiative (a collaborative project between over 100 organisations) underpins much of the work the families are doing in the U.K., highlighting how our laws actively put children worldwide in danger, by:
- Maximising the health risks
- Undermining their human rights
- Destroying families
- Fuelling crime and violence
- Putting the drugs trade into the hands of dangerous criminals
View the full report here.