What I find strange is how so much of this war is being focused around Bakhmut right now, as if it falls, it's all over.

Isn't it essentially Ukraine's first line of defence right now? Don't they have 3 or 4 similarly, perhaps more, fortified cities to fall back to to their West?

It seems to me more right now that Russia are throwing everything they can at one small city, which Ukraine could probably just pull out of to a more advantageous position at any time.

Honestly feels like the Ukrainians are leading the Russian army into a nasty trap to me lol

No, I'm talking about decriminalising harder drugs. Decriminalising is a proven way of disrupting the drugs trade, by reducing the number of people addicted through a health approach, thus reducing the size and therefore impact of the drugs trade overall, including those trafficking problems you rightly mention.

Public prosecution powers are though.

Still, in terms of public health, as we're seeing with still too steady progress in Scotland, the key to resolving the problem of getting people away from harder substances like those is treating possession as a sign of needing help (whether medical or services and protections for children involved in the drug trade, wherever they are from), not a prison sentence. That's what decriminalisation is, and it doesn't affect the ability to prosecute the sale of harder drugs. There are fundamentally harmful drugs which no one should profit off of, for sure.

I mean, the logical solution to all these problems voiced through the article is, depending on the drug, decriminalisation or legalisation+regulation.

Governments have had their heads up their arses for so long when it comes to the war on drugs, I find it utterly mad that they won't realise the game is up.

And I've never met a crypto fan who wasn't (obviously) clinically insane.