Neil McKeganey: Staying tough on drugs  Cannabis use, among
other drugs, has fallen significantly. Picture: Getty   Have
your say  National policies need to be about reducing the impact
of illegal drugs on Scotland, not initiatives that could result
in their wider use, writes Neil McKeganey  IN MONDAY’S report
from the Westminster’s all-parliamentary group on drug policy
reform, we have what has become the latest in a long line of
calls for the legalisation of illegal drugs. For the advocates
of drugs legalisation, the arguments seem disarmingly familiar
and persuasive: our drug laws have failed to stem the flow of
illegal drug use; many of those substances that are currently
illegal are less harmful than tobacco or alcohol and, therefore,
we should pursue an approach that legalises these and other
forms of drug use.  The trouble with this view is that it is
almost entirely based on the premise that drug use under a
legalised or regulated regime would not significantly increase.
That is a bold assumption and