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"We've been fighting a drugs war for 40 years, that war is lost, and completely unwinnable"

| Posted 09.22.2011 | UK
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"We've been fighting a drugs war for 40 years, that war is lost, and completely unwinnable." These were the eminent words of Mr James Duffy from Law...

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