Russell Brand at a committee about drugs

Another post about Russell Brand. This guy seems to be fascinating me at the moment! I find the argument very compelling that we should treat addiction as an illness (and the implication that drug use, without addiction, may not need to be illegal).

Richard Branson: Time to end the war on drugs

Very interesting article by Richard Branson on Portugal as an experiment on the decriminalisation of drug possession, and switch from treating drug addicts as criminals to patients.