The Merseyside Experiment: Will UK Recall Its Heroin-Prescribing History?

The Merseyside Experiment: Will UK Recall Its Heroin-Prescribing History?

“The war on drugs has failed,” Zack Polanski told reporters in October 2025. The new leader of the Green Party for England and Wales, rising in the polls after his appointment, called for legalization and a drug-policy approach “led by public health experts, not politicians.” The backlash was swift and brutal. Polanski’s support for the regulation of substances like cannabis and MDMA was “reckless,” according to media commentators. And prescribe…