As The Independent reveals cocaine use of extremely high purity is now circulating on Britain’s streets, the reality of illicit drugs and their harms needs to be brought back into public view T here was a time when the scourge of drugs – both soft and hard – was a regular feature of the daily news, along with calls from groups on one or other side of the argument for, if not legalisation, then decriminalisation, or much harsher penalties for trafficking. More recently, however, aside from some