In all the backlash against the recent UK race report led by Tony Sewell (aka Sewell report), it would be a shame if any of the sound recommendations were lost. If a murderer says “don’t murder” - how much less should we weigh the advice, if it has been thought out and reasoned. I’m unsure.

The one recommendation I’d like the UK to explore in particular (with a potential view to decriminalisation of class B drugs) is”...individuals committing the offence of ‘possession of a Class B drug’ will automatically be considered for a drugs referral in lieu of traditional criminal justice routes…”

Even before intellectual philosophical moral arguments for moderate drugs (we should be allowed to do anything to our own bodies that doesn’t harm others) - these offences seem to be a causal driver of many challenges society has and negatively impacts inequity in many of its forms.

I am not hopeful. But maybe. Note the libertarian think tank, Cato Institute is very supportive as are certain leftist think tanks. When right and left can agree - can main stream politics move social and political will? Although perhaps overstated by proponents, the case from Portugal which decriminalised in 2001 seems to be positive.