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Scottish drug Czar: "war on drugs" can't be won.


Tom Wood, Scotland's former chief deputy constable An official of a Municipal Corporation whose primary duties are to protect and preserve the peace of the community.

In medieval law, a constable was a high functionary under the French and English kings.
 and Current head of the Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams, describes the "war on drugs" as "long lost," reported the Scotsman for June 18. "We can never as a nation be drug-free," insists Wood. "No nation can, so we must accept that. So the message has to be more sophisticated than 'just say no,' because that simple message doesn't work."

Despite "decades of drug enforcement costing millions of pounds, Scotland has one of the worst drug problems in Europe, with an estimated 50,000 addicts," notes the paper. "At least haft a million Scots List of Scots is an incomplete list of notable people from Scotland. Actors (see also humorists)
Please refer to List of Scottish actors Architects
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 are believed to have smoked cannabis cannabis: see hemp; marijuana.
cannabis

Any plant of the genus Cannabis, which contains a single species, C. sativa. It is widely cultivated throughout the northern temperate zone.
 and 200,000 are believed to have taken cocaine cocaine (kōkān`, kō`kān), alkaloid drug derived from the leaves of the coca shrub. A commonly abused illegal drug, cocaine has limited medical uses, most often in surgical applications that take advantage of the fact that, in ."
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Title Annotation:Tom Wood's war on drugs
Publication:The New American
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:Jul 10, 2006
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