Drugs do harm
From Geoffrey Davies Sir: Charles Moore is right (The Spectator's Notes, 26 June). There are increasing numbers of young people (and their families) damaged by drugs. It's surely something the legalisers need to learn.
Dr Susan Blackmore recently sent a memorandum to the Parliamentaty home affairs committee: 'I have a dream that one day we shall look back on today's society with the same abhorrence with which we now view Victorian child labour, the oppression of women and the evils of slavery. In my dream I can walk down any street in Bristol, Boston. Bogota or Bombay, and no one will steal my phone to get their next fix. No heroin-dazed beggar will plead for my change. No crack-crazed youth will kill me for my credit card. And why? Because in my dream they, like me, can walk down that street and buy any drug they like.' The price of purchasing such a dream is far too high. Geoffrey Davies National Drug Prevention Alliance, Slough
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