Drugs-why controls?

This book is a research book as part of my Law degree studies. It is basically criminolgy in it's nature. I wrote the book from both my experience as a serving police officer and from the multitude of sociological and historical information available at that time (1980). I made various conclusions, including the consideration of de-criminalising drugs abuse to take the unlawful dealers out of the equation and instead have drug shops, similar to pubs or off licenses. Many years on and having seen the damage which drug mis-use has caused to people close to me, I am now firmly of the opinion that drug dealers should be imprisoned for life, with no parole, even the small time ones, such is the serious harm which drugs and their mis-use can cause. The damage caused by the liberal thinking elite and their propensity for stating that illegal drugs are "harmless" or only affect "the user" only serves to actually cause more harm. If they got down to street level and saw the addicts and the dealers in their natural habitats, they may just re-think their stupid comments. Times have changed but the evil nature of all controlled subsatnces has only become worse.