It’s a distraction that seemed to have popped up out of nowhere this morning.
Well done Tories, let’s criminalise and punish people for something that is essentially a sickness instead of focusing on rehabilitation or addressing the problems that lead to drug use.
They’re pushing the UK back in time by decades with their dusty old views.
On channel 4 news Govt minister was asked about Cabinet Ministers taking drugs. His answer was ‘you’ll have to ask them’.
We’re being governed by a bunch of hooray henry coke heads. LOL.
Yet again policy is made not by what the people want or what happens in reality but rather based on backward opinions with no scientific data to support decisions at all, why the fuck does everyone still vite conservative
Those thumbnails always amuse me.
Who the fuck can afford *that* much coke on the reg and is daft enough to just dump the entire thing out?
Draconian drug laws. Fucking stupid.
Nothing short of it.
Plus, hypocritical seeing as they’re all a bunch of mangly coke heads themselves
The war on drugs failed, why is round 2 being considered. We need progressive regulations for interest of harm reduction and reducing violence. Not another crackdown
Said it before and will say it again:
Their mentality keeps drugs demonised. Keeps them illegal. Makes them less pure / cut with nasty shit
Also leads to massive social stigma for receiving help for addiction
Also means that all the money is unregulated and goes to gangs
This in turn increases violence.
This is why the war on drugs failed. Because it’s a self perpetuating cycle where violence is amplified, not reduced, all the while drug users and drug addicts don’t receive the help they need
The same people on board with this shit probably go down to the pub, sink 5 pints and a pack of smokes, come home and take a painkiller for the headache and have the audacity to call other people “filthy druggies”
We need progressive regulations, not Draconian bullshit
I’ll get behind the govt once they arrest their first few Cabinet ministers for illegal drug taking
Will this include my driving licenses I got while abroad and my Irish passport? I think not.
If they really do start going after middle class users though, it will provoke a backlash. Classic case of unintended consequences from out of touch politicians.
I’m pretty text book middle class; white, professional job, middle England dwelling homeowner. Grew up in a nice area in a nice town and still live close by. This area is *overwhelmingly* conservative (I’m not, for what it’s worth).
It might be hard to understand this if you’re not from this type of background but drugs are basically legal for me. There was a stage in my teens through to late 20s where you could count on 1 hand the number of times i didn’t have at least some weed on my person when out and about.
I still use cannabis fairly regularly and obtaining it is really no different from ordering a pizza. If I wanted cocaine or ecstacy I could get it, easily. I have zero fear or expectation of being targeted by police over this and police in this area make it pretty obvious they have bigger fish to fry with their limited resources. It’s not unusual to smell cannabis in the street here, younger people smoke it openly and no-one bats an eyelid.
You change that and start making people in areas like this look over their shoulder when they’re smoking a joint or doing a few lines after dinner, in other words you make people experience what people in the front lines of the War on Drugs feel, they won’t like it. They’ll be angry because they *genuinely don’t think these laws apply to them*. It’s one of those “nudge nudge, wink wink” tory things like tax evasion that don’t apply if you’re the “right sort”. They may even stop voting tory.
Ironically this could therefore be the best thing ever for drugs reform. An incensed middle class that’s finally had to bear the brunt of the war on drugs will have those laws changed toute suite or vote in someone who will.
Bring it on I say.
The reason they are going after ‘ordinary’ people is so they can create the law that allows them to take all ID off ordinary people, if they commit some kind of ‘crime’ of course.
‘crime’ will likely become more wide-ranging as a concept.
It’s a means of control really since who would wish to be without ID?
If you spend money on cocaine, you are funding the abuse and murder of vulnerable people in the global periphery who are forced to produce it or are caught up in the infighting of the cartels.
Every time you use cocaine, you’re validating the enslavement of a Colombian farmer or the murder of a Mexican civil rights activist
I expect this from Tory cabinet ministers. Be better than that scum.
Underfund the NHS, social services and increase hurdles to social mobility so people’s mental health is worse, then stop people from bring free to take drugs to medicate themselves, but of course you can always drink yourself to death.
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It’s a distraction that seemed to have popped up out of nowhere this morning.
Well done Tories, let’s criminalise and punish people for something that is essentially a sickness instead of focusing on rehabilitation or addressing the problems that lead to drug use.
They’re pushing the UK back in time by decades with their dusty old views.
On channel 4 news Govt minister was asked about Cabinet Ministers taking drugs. His answer was ‘you’ll have to ask them’.
We’re being governed by a bunch of hooray henry coke heads. LOL.
Yet again policy is made not by what the people want or what happens in reality but rather based on backward opinions with no scientific data to support decisions at all, why the fuck does everyone still vite conservative
Those thumbnails always amuse me.
Who the fuck can afford *that* much coke on the reg and is daft enough to just dump the entire thing out?
Draconian drug laws. Fucking stupid.
Nothing short of it.
Plus, hypocritical seeing as they’re all a bunch of mangly coke heads themselves
The war on drugs failed, why is round 2 being considered. We need progressive regulations for interest of harm reduction and reducing violence. Not another crackdown
Said it before and will say it again:
Their mentality keeps drugs demonised. Keeps them illegal. Makes them less pure / cut with nasty shit
Also leads to massive social stigma for receiving help for addiction
Also means that all the money is unregulated and goes to gangs
This in turn increases violence.
This is why the war on drugs failed. Because it’s a self perpetuating cycle where violence is amplified, not reduced, all the while drug users and drug addicts don’t receive the help they need
The same people on board with this shit probably go down to the pub, sink 5 pints and a pack of smokes, come home and take a painkiller for the headache and have the audacity to call other people “filthy druggies”
We need progressive regulations, not Draconian bullshit
I’ll get behind the govt once they arrest their first few Cabinet ministers for illegal drug taking
Will this include my driving licenses I got while abroad and my Irish passport? I think not.
If they really do start going after middle class users though, it will provoke a backlash. Classic case of unintended consequences from out of touch politicians.
I’m pretty text book middle class; white, professional job, middle England dwelling homeowner. Grew up in a nice area in a nice town and still live close by. This area is *overwhelmingly* conservative (I’m not, for what it’s worth).
It might be hard to understand this if you’re not from this type of background but drugs are basically legal for me. There was a stage in my teens through to late 20s where you could count on 1 hand the number of times i didn’t have at least some weed on my person when out and about.
I still use cannabis fairly regularly and obtaining it is really no different from ordering a pizza. If I wanted cocaine or ecstacy I could get it, easily. I have zero fear or expectation of being targeted by police over this and police in this area make it pretty obvious they have bigger fish to fry with their limited resources. It’s not unusual to smell cannabis in the street here, younger people smoke it openly and no-one bats an eyelid.
You change that and start making people in areas like this look over their shoulder when they’re smoking a joint or doing a few lines after dinner, in other words you make people experience what people in the front lines of the War on Drugs feel, they won’t like it. They’ll be angry because they *genuinely don’t think these laws apply to them*. It’s one of those “nudge nudge, wink wink” tory things like tax evasion that don’t apply if you’re the “right sort”. They may even stop voting tory.
Ironically this could therefore be the best thing ever for drugs reform. An incensed middle class that’s finally had to bear the brunt of the war on drugs will have those laws changed toute suite or vote in someone who will.
Bring it on I say.
The reason they are going after ‘ordinary’ people is so they can create the law that allows them to take all ID off ordinary people, if they commit some kind of ‘crime’ of course.
‘crime’ will likely become more wide-ranging as a concept.
It’s a means of control really since who would wish to be without ID?
If you spend money on cocaine, you are funding the abuse and murder of vulnerable people in the global periphery who are forced to produce it or are caught up in the infighting of the cartels.
Every time you use cocaine, you’re validating the enslavement of a Colombian farmer or the murder of a Mexican civil rights activist
I expect this from Tory cabinet ministers. Be better than that scum.
Underfund the NHS, social services and increase hurdles to social mobility so people’s mental health is worse, then stop people from bring free to take drugs to medicate themselves, but of course you can always drink yourself to death.