The World - News from May 24, 1985
An influx of hard drugs poses the most serious peacetime threat to Britain in history, and the armed forces should be used in an intensified anti-drug campaign, a select parliamentary committee declared in a report. Committee Chairman Edward Gardner said, “Every son and daughter of every family in the country is at risk from this terrible epidemic.” Robin Corbett, a Labor member of Parliament, added, “We have seen the future and it is frightening.”
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