High Time for Fair Trade

The Guardian recently castigated casual drug use amongst well meaning middle classes, who otherwise try to live an ethical life. In response, a reader suggested that the prohibition of drugs is an arbitrary western decision and even proposed fair trade cocaine. Now, while the ethics of drug use are complex and interweave social, political and economic factors, the principle of extending fair trade to all products raises a pertinent point. How far away are we from regarding repressive, unfair trading to be as morally reprehensible as illegal trading? Granted, we are a leap away from that, but it's a worthy ideal. The political and social benefits of all trade being fair could create a much bigger wave of euphoria than any illicit drug ever could.