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Easier to apply appropriate penalties

By offering a means of calculating more precisely how much or how little harm an individual drug offence had caused, the Harms Index would make it easier for magistrates and judges to apply appropriate penalties.

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An evidence-based Harms Index
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Easier to apply appropriate penalties
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Adaptable to new drugs and research
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Index to underpin law and wider policy
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Objective assessment guides change
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Index updatable as new substances emerge
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Index would increase transparency
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Live source of comprehensive information
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Penalties shaped by harms caused
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Reduce personal prejudice in sentencing
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Drugs policy becomes less partisan
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Sensitive to varied settings and harms
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Use index to prioritise harm reduction
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Help users to contextualise behaviour
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Media hysteria exerts less influence
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