lickmidick2002 wrote:
i,ve read most of this with some interest. however as someone who doesn.t advocate drug use(having lost family and friends to drink and drugs) we need to not miss the point.
currently the drugs trade accounts forabout 3% of world trade! yup something bill gates would soil himself for. however it ffers little to the economies it effects. more or less all heroin in the uk is afghan, grown by the taliban or familes forced to by them. most of our cocaine from south america where again warlords use it to fund their own principailities again more or less forcing growers.
hold this for a sec.
legalisation brings many benefits. firstly decriminalisation. so no costs to the criminal justice system. if available in a regulated manner like a measured dose of alcohol like when you go for a beer then you get rid of our own home grown gangsters and the violence ythat goes with it. anyone wishing to try it would get the REAL facts and make a choice based on fact. not what their mates say.
i.d make heroin free as it would probably be more cost effective thsn the current system. you.d have all the savings frm the criminal justice system to pay for it. insurance premiums would come down as most burglaries and thefts from cars are to fund drug use;85% of peeps in prison are for drug related aquisitive crime. you.d also have a safer community as police would be able to policing communities and getting to know them. and prrisons would be virtually empty!
we don't need a police state we need an open and honest frank debate on policy. We need people to read more than just a sun headline. Ifc fags and beer were discovered tomorrow they would be illegal. A drug is a drug regardless of whther it falls in a legal framework or not! This is about social responsibility not who are scum and who are not. Ask anyone with a drug problem and after you have cut throough the bravado they are not proud nor do they thinkit clever and they would give their right armnot to be an addict...and some do
ask a smoker how many times they have tried to give up. prohibition only creates a sub culture of cool to the vulnerable its time to deal withthis honestly. Unfortunately because most people have no idea of the real situation this will be a political hot potato for a good whilel yet.
Would you vote for someone saying review the system and look at legalisation/decriminalisation as a real option?
Until we do we itzs gonna get worse before it gets better.
Until then we need to educate our young people the good and thr bad and hope thst common sense prevails
i,ve read most of this with some interest. however as someone who doesn.t advocate drug use(having lost family and friends to drink and drugs) we need to not miss the point.
currently the drugs trade accounts forabout 3% of world trade! yup something bill gates would soil himself for. however it ffers little to the economies it effects. more or less all heroin in the uk is afghan, grown by the taliban or familes forced to by them. most of our cocaine from south america where again warlords use it to fund their own principailities again more or less forcing growers.
hold this for a sec.
legalisation brings many benefits. firstly decriminalisation. so no costs to the criminal justice system. if available in a regulated manner like a measured dose of alcohol like when you go for a beer then you get rid of our own home grown gangsters and the violence ythat goes with it. anyone wishing to try it would get the REAL facts and make a choice based on fact. not what their mates say.
i.d make heroin free as it would probably be more cost effective thsn the current system. you.d have all the savings frm the criminal justice system to pay for it. insurance premiums would come down as most burglaries and thefts from cars are to fund drug use;85% of peeps in prison are for drug related aquisitive crime. you.d also have a safer community as police would be able to policing communities and getting to know them. and prrisons would be virtually empty!
we don't need a police state we need an open and honest frank debate on policy. We need people to read more than just a sun headline. Ifc fags and beer were discovered tomorrow they would be illegal. A drug is a drug regardless of whther it falls in a legal framework or not! This is about social responsibility not who are scum and who are not. Ask anyone with a drug problem and after you have cut throough the bravado they are not proud nor do they thinkit clever and they would give their right armnot to be an addict...and some do
ask a smoker how many times they have tried to give up. prohibition only creates a sub culture of cool to the vulnerable its time to deal withthis honestly. Unfortunately because most people have no idea of the real situation this will be a political hot potato for a good whilel yet.
Would you vote for someone saying review the system and look at legalisation/decriminalisation as a real option?
Until we do we itzs gonna get worse before it gets better.
Until then we need to educate our young people the good and thr bad and hope thst common sense prevails
spot on. unfortunately ignorance and politics (are they one and the same??) mean that this will be a very difficult proposition to sell to the general public as a workable policy. Too much ignorance and hysteria around unfortunately. But I agree with you 100%. We simply associate drugs and crime so closely that it is inconceivable that drugs and crime could possibly be separated but they could - as you have said - with vision, courage and a will to try something different to the policies that have been failing for 40+ years.
