New possible drugs policy

[Consfearacy]

Read my post again. I typed 'inane' not 'insane'.

I stand corrected on this mistake, but I am not prepared to adjust my opinion.

[Macman]

Yet more reason to legalise drugs. Much in the same way that cigarettes are taxed to pay for their effects, drugs could be taxed to pay for their adverse affects.

But the outcome of said person smoking? to say someone taking Heroin/Cocaine/LSD etc has massive diffrences.

Someone chain smoking, doesn't render them uncontrollable. However someone high on ectasy does, hence how I, nearly had my face slashed in town with a guy trying to take money from me. (Police were only few shops away).

However, weed on the other hand I think should be legalised, as it CAN* serves a medical purpose on a wide scale or so I'm led to believe.

[matty-hodgson]

Tbh... Drug Addict's should be tossed on an island and left to fend for themselves. Why should WE as tax payers have to be penalised for there health? Methadone etc.

Drug Addict's break into peoples home/mug folk only to feed their habit, why should we tolerate it? If we defended ourselves, most likely we would be given a criminal record :/, imo the justice system in UK is an absolute joke.

It really really needs to be reviewed to favour the victim.

Yet more reason to legalise drugs. Much in the same way that cigarettes are taxed to pay for their effects, drugs could be taxed to pay for their adverse affects.

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But the outcome of said person smoking? to say someone taking Heroin/Cocaine/LSD etc has massive diffrences.

Someone chain smoking, doesn't render them uncontrollable. However someone high on ectasy does, hence how I, nearly had my face slashed in town with a guy trying to take money from me. (Police were only few shops away).

However, weed on the other hand I think should be legalised, as it CAN* serves a medical purpose on a wide scale or so I'm led to believe.

The guy was high on ecstasy and tried to slash your face? I humbly submit that he had not been taking any ecstasy, or at least he hadn't been taking any good ecstasy. Most likely cut with some crap. The cutting of drugs with impure substances is by the way one of the dangerous by-products of our drugs legislation, and incidentally the reason why so many people die from 'drugs'. If it were legalised and controlled by the government, there would be far, far fewer overdoses and/or deaths from drugs because there would be no confusion about their contents.

Anyone who has ever taken ecstasy will tell you slashing someone's face is that last thing they'd ever think of. More likely he had been drinking - which is behind a huge proportion of violent crimes all over the world. Not much outcry for that to be banned though.

[Knoxville]

There's no real argument to be had here, prohibition just doesn't work. Throwing more money and more man hours at the problem, and ignoring more documents that show there is a better way won't win the war on drugs or make your street any safer. Proposal's have been made to change policy, and papers written by experts on what SHOULD be done, but unfortunately the war's big buisiness, it's never going away no matter how fruitless the endeavour.

[Barakka]

There's no real argument to be had here, prohibition just doesn't work. Throwing more money and more man hours at the problem, and ignoring more documents that show there is a better way won't win the war on drugs or make your street any safer. Proposal's have been made to change policy, and papers written by experts on what SHOULD be done, but unfortunately the war's big buisiness, it's never going away no matter how fruitless the endeavour.

Exactly, there are more people die from smoking every week than die from all the illegal drugs every year, but when Allen Carr approached the government years ago to tell them there is a way to stop people smoking easily they ignored him. And not only that no-one would publish his book out of fear !!

We've had politicians and police heads, all been responsible for enforcing the drug policy, turn round and publicly say that prohibition doesn't work, and the response is "well that government did it wrong".

An end to prohibition would enable us to educate people in the truth about drugs and get rid of some of the myths - like cannabis is harmless and even has health benefits for some people, when we'd be better making people aware of the dangers of using cannabis if they have any underlying mental health issues as that's when it IS bad...

But more importantly it would get the drugs clean... that's the main reason people die from drugs, they don't know what they're using and what strength it is.

Will never happen though... shame