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Every drug story about a politician is a reminder of how racist and class-ridden this policy is. If you're middle class and white, it's a naughty joke you can brush aside. If you're not, it'll see you thrown in jail and destroy your career prospects.
Every year that passes, countless lives are destroyed by this policy. Pointlessly destroyed. And we let it happen, even though almost everyone you talk to in the political class agrees it is ineffective and wrong.
But there's no urgency to change it, because, for most people in the political class, it'll fall into the laugh-and-shrug world, rather than the life-destroying world.
