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Eddie Mair came out of that particular exchange looking like a tit, for my money. Although Hammond didn't expand on it, he did point out that annual tests between 50mg (proposed new level) and 80mg (current level) were about 48000 per year. If you take all the police time that charging those people would consume, it might well be true that deploying them elsewhere would save more lives than the number advanced by proponents of a cut, based on evidence from other countries which might not even be properly comparable with conditions in this country. If, for once, government ministers have started doing proper cost/benefit analysis instead of acting on flawed political impulse, we might be getting somewhere, and if Hammond is susceptible to these kinds of cost/benefit arguments, your pro-cycling arguments should have some traction with him.