The use of drugs should be treated as a public health problem and not a crime, according to Sir Richard Branson.

The tycoon says the existing drugs control system's "totally failed" to stop the growth of the trade.

Sir Richard's a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and - on the day judges are being told to give tough sentences to gang leaders rather than low-level dealers - has been giving evidence to the first parliamentary inquiry into drugs policy for more than 10 years:

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