Government urged to sell cocaine and ecstasy in pharmacies

Campaigners say sale of drugs should be nationalised to undermine organised crime

Cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines should be nationalised" and sold legally in government-run pharmacies to undermine global drug-related crime, a UK drugs reform charity has recommended.

In a book - with a foreword written by the former prime minister of New Zealand Helen Clark - the drugs liberalisation campaign group Transform has sought to set out practical ways to sell the drugs in state-run special pharmacies as an alternative to what it calls the unwinnable war against drugs".