After the war on drugs?

While the consensus behind the prohibitionist paradigm of drug control is crumbling in the face of its long term failure, the debate on alternative approaches has stalled in the absence of clearly defined models of regulated drug markets. Such models have now been proposed for a range of currently illegal drugs in the recent publication by Transform Drug Policy Foundation (Rolles, 2009), After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for regulation. These regulatory models, with the rationale behind them, are outlined by the book's author.