Focus on Politics for 1 April 2016

This week a major international study concluded that the War on Drugs has been a failure. It found that rather than stopping the trade and use of drugs, the so-called war had created parallel economies, increased the spread of disease and discrimination, and contributed to lethal violence. In New Zealand, drug law reform is a political hot potato, but as our Deputy Political Editor Chris Bramwell reports, change may be on the horizon.