New campaign launches to end war on drugs

Morgan Freeman is the face of the drug campaign A new campaign to end the 'war on drugs' is to be launched on YouTube. A documentary called, 'Breaking The Taboo', narrated by Morgan Freeman, goes live worldwide on 7 December. The film, directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen , will mark what proponents claim is the "devastating failure of half a century of worldwide prohibitionism".  'Breaking The Taboo' will premier at Google's premises in London and New York.
Coincidentally Amanda Feilding, the Countess of Wemyss and a drug policy reformer has rallied support from nearly 70 figures in the scientific and celebrity community to sign the Beckley Public Letter, including twelve Nobel prizewinners and a host of international celebrities such as Sting, Yoko Ono, Noam Chomsky and Sir Richard Branson. The letter is her petition following 15 years of work at the Beckley Foundation which she set up in 1989. Through this foundation the campaigning aristocrat has has hosted seminars, promoted research and lobbied the powerful in the name of legalisation.