Jane Asher 'calls for drug legalisation'

Jane Asher has insisted that legalising drugs is the only way to tackle addiction.

The actress called the war on drugs a "mad situation" and said that legal alternatives may be even more dangerous than the real thing.

"Don't get me started on the whole drugs thing. They should legalise the lot of them as far as I'm concerned," she told the Daily Star.

"That's the only hope. But it's far too complex an argument. There are so many 'legal' highs out there just now, which are incredibly dangerous because they haven't been tested and yet they are readily available to buy over the internet."

She continued: "Yet some of the ones we do know about are illegal. It's a mad situation, we're chasing after something we can never catch up with. Anyone who pretends that the policies on drugs have worked is talking nonsense."