Baby tape/drugs and the law

We are just getting ready for afternoon conference. Another motorbike accident, this time close to St Asaph, which has left a man very badly hurt is likely to feature on the front page.
Chief constable Richard Brunstrom will also make his second prominent appearance this week as he unveils his submission to the police authority for a response to the government's latest consultation on drugs policy.
I am just ploughing through the 34-page document which at first glance makes a very detailed and cogent case for the decriminalisation of drugs and the intoduction of a strategy to regulate all drugs (including booze and tobacco) and minimise the harm they do.
There's the usual Brunstrom posturing ..."I prefer (JS) Mill's view on liberty rather than the quasi-religious and paternalistic regime based upon the countering of evil hitherto prevalent" and "if policy on drugs is in future to be pragmatic not moralistic, driven by ethics not dogma"...by which everyone who disagrees with him is made to feel like an idiot or a bigot.
But the evidence, that fighting the tide of drug imports and drug misuse is as doomed as Canute's attempt to defy nature, is presented in a compelling manner. This time, he might just be right.
What I would like to see is a more detailed appraisal of how society can regulate and control drugs use to minimise the harm they cause. To be fair, that will involve many more agencies than the police, but it would be interesting to see and test a detailed plan of how such regulation would work.
I hope you've had a chance to listen to the audiotape of the phone conversation between an ambulance controller and an expectant dad. Baby arrived in a hurry and dad had to play midwife, guided all the way by the controller. It makes for a compelling, and rather moving, couple of minutes. Go to the video screen on the homepage of dailypost.co.uk to have a listen. We've got a sequence of pictures of mum, dad and baby, plus our 999 hero, to run with the audio.