KERRY Herron (Letters, May 1) acknowledges the sad execution of the Bali drug runners and asks may we now have equal media attention on deaths from illegal drugs.

I couldn't agree more. Let's focus on the abject failure of current control strategies, and acknowledge that the socalled "war on drugs" was lost a very long time ago.

Let's accept that decriminalisation and harm minimisation are the only logical ways forward, and start discussing how that can be achieved.

Brett Lee, Tingalpa

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