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Roger Howard is chief executive of the UK Drug Policy Commission and Leo Barasi is Communications Manager at the UK Drug Policy Commission. Roger Howard is speaking at the Battle of Ideas session Your mind, your high: is recreational drug use morally wrong? in association with UKDPC, which takes place on Saturday 29 October. Leo Barasi is Communications Manager at the UK Drug Policy Commission.

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In drugs, pragmatism is the only moral approach

The battle about how we control recreational drugs is supposedly fought between visionary idealists and value-free pragmatists. One side claims to have right on their side, the other has cold facts. But the closer you look, the more it becomes clear that the pragmatists should never have allowed themselves to be painted as knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.

By | Battle of Ideas | Thursday, 20 October 2011 at 6:00 am

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