Eoghan Harris (Independent)

I have done so for the past ten years.

The taking of drugs like the taking of alcohol or any other substance is fundamentally a matter of individual choice. If people want to kill themselves, then the same numbers of people who kill themselves with alcohol will kill themselves with cocaine. What is causing the disruption, agony and the horror of society is the fact that drugs are illegal and the criminal classes have attached themselves to the body of society.