"It’s almost as if it has become marginalised," he said. "Everybody does it. You are not actually beating the system and being a rebel or radical if you are taking the substance."
(Marijuananews note: No, it is not becoming "marginalised" it is becoming mainstreamed. Such muddled thinking must be necessary for him to advocate his policies.)

In a frank exchange with MPs, Mr Hellawell, the UK’s anti-drugs co-ordinator, admitted that the Government’s strategy for fighting drugs was unlikely to show any signs of success within three years.

He said no community was safe from the growing problem of heroin use and some youngsters were taking it as their first illegal drug. Although many new heroin users have been introduced to the smokable form of the drug, some young users were now choosing to inject heroin to satisfy their increasing craving, Mr Hellawell said.

The drug tsar promised MPs that more of the UKP1.4bn spent annually on fighting drugs would be allocated to education, which receives only 3 per cent of the budget.

Mr Hellawell said ground had been lost by the reluctance of schools to take on board anti-drug messages. He said: "Up to four or five years ago it was taboo in schools to talk about drugs. It was outlawed by parents who said, ‘If they are talking about drugs in school, it’s a druggy school and I will take my kids away’."
(Marijuananews note: There is this large English speaking country directly across the Atlantic – called DEAland -- that has had intensive "anti-drug" propaganda since the early 1980s and it hasn’t worked.