One Law For All

James Delingpole thinks that no elected sheriff would so "waste" public money as to stage a drugs bust against Kate Moss and her kind.

Oh, yes, he would. And that is a very good case for having him.

Unlike the American prohibition laws, which attacked an integral part of Western culture and even then criminalised only its sale or purchase, our drugs laws attack wholly alien phenomena and rightly criminalise possession.

If the law against possession were properly enforced, then the war against drugs could certainly be won, and might already have been so.

Whereas without that enforcement, that war is not even being fought.