So while most Western countries are de-criminalising or straight up making purchase legal, the UK wants to give up to life sentence for distribution and 8 years for use?
The tories really are destroying this country on their way out.
What are they smoking?
Honestly, these people.
Do we even have the police force needed to enforce this?
Just shows how incompetent and archaic the Conservatives are. The sooner we get rid of them, the better for the whole of the UK.
A gateway drug, really? Is it 1950 again?
I really wish these articles would end by pointing out that cannabis is totally legal in Canada and de facto legal in much of the US, and nothing particularly bad has happened while bringing in huge amounts of tax money for public health and other worthy causes.
Okay, but ***WHY?***
(rhetorical)
As said the rest of the world is decriminalising or legalising, we have it set at B class and apparently some want it upgraded to an A class…but WHY?!
Especially given the health benefits to some. Is this an extention on Tories war on disabled people?
It has been catagorically proven around the world that cannabis is safer when decriminalised. End of discussion.
It’s only a gateway drug because you have to go to dealers to get it.
Alcohol would be a gateway drug if the bartender offered you a line with your beer.
Edit: And to raise the class to A, might encourage a dealer that previously only sold the herb, to diversify, making the gateway drug argument a self-fulfilling prophecy. “You might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb”.
Fucking PCCs. Scrap the lot of them, or force them to actually spend some time as a PC.
Surprise, surprise, the spokesperson used to work in the pharmaceutical industry…
Make it legal and tax it 30% , send the money to NHS
If this happens, that’s it, I’m actually leaving this train wreck of a country.
Legalize it like the rest of the world, and tax it, you actual bunch of morons.
Say it with me, one more time: “the state does not have the right to tell me what to put in my body.”
Nothing but pharmaceutical lobbying, they’ve failed in America and they’re panicking the same will happen here.
> But David Sidwick, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Dorset, said that cannabis was “driving harm” in communities.
>”We’re seeing it because it’s a gateway drug. If you look at the young people in treatment, the number one drug they are in treatment for is cannabis.”
> Mr Sidwick, who **used to work in the pharmaceutical industry**,…
Our prisons are overcrowded and understaffed and our police force is overstretched.
What exactly is the benefit of further criminalising a drug that’s defacto legal, relatively harmless and could give a boost to the tax coffers?
It’s so backwards
Just the term “conservative police chiefs” scares the shit outa me.
Coming from a police officer… what a fucking daft idea.
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I wonder what the average Bobby on the street thinks about a small bit of puff. A few years ago I was outside my flat rolling a spliff & a police officer walked past. I didn’t know what to do so all I could say was “it’s only a cigarette” knowing full well no one roles ciggies in a long blue slim, he knew and I knew it wasn’t tobacco in there. He literally said “I don’t care what’s in there mate” and kept walking.
Didn’t Theresa Mays husband make millions out of shares in Canadian Marijuana companies ? Or something similar ? Or did I just imagine this ?
Microdosing cannabis every evening has been a godsend to me. It allows me to be a functioning adult, it is part recreational and medicinal for me as it offsets my horrible morning migraines (low-grade brain tumour).
I used to find it hard to get up for work, or even remotely function before mid-day. But now, I am doing far better than I was years ago.
For context, I spend £20-£30 a month on the stuff! all about moderation and legislation to keep mild drugs like cannabis from having ill effects on people.
This, like the ‘anti woke’ stuff, is just red meat for the Mail / Express to rile up the curtain twitcher vote for the next election.
The tories only care about keeping the priveliges and wealth of the already priviliged and wealthy.
This stuff is just to get easily angered puritans to vote for them, and will be dropped as soon as they get back in.
Conservatism is just one flavour now I guess – American. They are just importing all their bullshit. It’ll be trying to get us to have guns next I suppose?
The war on drugs has been fought and the drugs won. The Tories are looking for another headline grab, and this is it lol. “Keep it relentless” – it’s in the playbook, it’s out there and everyone loves the game right?
First step should be to make it legal to grow up to 10 plants for personal use. 10 is the minimum amount you need for the yield of a few plants. This would solve so many issues and we should get rid of possession being illegal. I can understand synthetic drugs being banned and illegal but not non altered plants, it’s ridiculous. You can legally buy Aconitum in garden centres which could be used to poison or kill someone. Stones from soft fruit are highly poisonous once crushed yet no warning is shown in supermarkets. Yet the flower of a plant that basically dulls down aggression and can help with hundreds of ailments is illegal to use or sell in this country.
We are such a stupid race of people. But the powers to be in bed with big pharma want to keep this illegal.
This country is fucked, we need a sea change in the whole political system and oust all these self serving twats, every party needs to go, how we can be this backwards compared to the rest of the world is beyond me
The Tories are off their own meds clearly. Such poor judgment by these old victorian era fools. I hope Putin bombs Parliment. Love to see them try to enforce this with the number of people who smoke/vape it now. Didn’t the number of people who use cannabis actually overtake the number of tobacco smokers in some categories?
10 Drugs are bad because they’re illegal
20 Drugs are illegal because they’re bad
30 Goto 10
Run_
This is ridiculous. They hate cannabis because it stops people behaving like good little capitalism slaves. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on
Fuck off you ignorant pieces of shit.
The only reason cannabis can ever be a ‘gateway drug’, is if people are forced to buy it in circles where harder drugs can also be purchased.
If the arugment is ‘it’s the first drug people try’, then usually that’s incorrect anyway, because alcohol is usually the first, so by that argument, alchohol would also need to be a class A drug.
These police clown chiefs need to go, they’re either dinosaurs with no sense of logic, or they’re being paid to say this, either way, just fuck off.
And what happens when it’s classed the same as heroin? – then some people try cannabis for the first time, realise it’s not as bad as what they’ve been told, and then think ‘ive been lied to – maybe heroin isn’t so bad either’.
Decriminalise all drugs. Make some of them like cannabis, psilocybin mushrooms, whichever party drug gets taken to festivals, and a few others, legal and able to be sold over the counter.
Stuff like heroin, coke, and meth maybe not legalised. I don’t know enough about them to confidently say. They seem more dangerous from what I’ve read.
Why magic mushrooms are class A is beyond me. I’ve seen so many studies showing their beneficial effects on mental health.
I suggest restricting smoking of cannabis to special shops or designated parks. That way you don’t get the horrible smell everywhere.
Tax those sales and use the money to dump these draconian shitbags into a volcano. The leftovers can go towards NHS, education, police etc.
I’ve never been a massive stoner but god damn when I have dabbled all it did was make my duff neck hurt a lot less for about 3 days after and I invented a posher kind of cheese on toast (4 kinds of cheese lol). Full disclosure I know I didnt invent it but it seemed like an amazing idea at the time that I’d never considered.
Curiously didn’t turn into a cartel runner etc.
I’ve never seen a smoker cause any trouble, if they wanted to point a finger at something they should look at foodball drunk violence. That is way more of an issue!
FFS yeah let’s make one of the only things that makes life bearable in this godforsaken hellhole even more illegal.
Ironically we’re the biggest distributor of medical marijuana in the world. Yet another crappy example of one rule for me, another rule for thee. I’m hating the U.K. more and more as the days go on
“But David Sidwick, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Dorset, said that cannabis was “driving harm” in communities.”
And sending them all to prison will decrease harm????? What planet do these people live on?
All drug abuse is a symptom, not a cause.
Just my thought from over in North America. They could want this as an excuse to have more power over searching and detaining young people, usually in lower-income areas.
The stupid thing is, by making cannabis illegal and underground, the police are encouraging the use of K2 and upcoming synthetics, which are being produced to kill off your young people. It’s f*cked. Cannabis in Canada raised money for schools, and it’s caused less trouble in violence and hospital visits than alcohol.
Those adults need to grow up for the good of the kids. Maybe they should all dose MDMA, have some group therapy, and create a positive society that they care about. Good luck!
Regulars will know my sentiments on prohibition – and there can be no doubt now that this has fuck all to do with harm reduction (as if it ever did). Do people honestly still buy that BS…? This is, more than anything, a human rights issue. Everyone, unless it can be demonstrated that they are not of sound mind, has a right to bodily autonomy. What you, I or anyone else puts into our bodies is nobody else’s fucking business. This is why I can’t fathom the Labour front bench reaction when Khan said he was considering legalising it in London – Starmer is a former human rights QC, for fuck’s sake, this is a human rights issues first and foremost. The police don’t have the first fucking clue; for a start the plod should be wholly independent of government, and second they should NOT be advising government on issues they know fuck all about.
This is [Erowid](https://www.erowid.org/splash.php), it’s one of the oldest sites on the Web, and a mine, a veritable trove of unbiased, impartial, advice on psychoactive plants and chemicals – how many would have known it existed had I not linked to it…? I only know of two other similar sites, neither UK based (like Erowid, they’re both based in the US). This is what prohibition does, it makes information on safe imbibing illegal. It criminalises safety and promotes harm. It makes criminals out of the sick, and it pushes things underground where they’re sold by who knows who…?
It’s time Starmer started talking – and listening – to the right people; not the plod, those who have lost relatives to illicit substances, to scientists, to researchers, to anyone who’s ever used an illicit substance for health reasons; is KS assuming that parents who’ve lost teens to MDMA, ket, coke, heroin, etc., would be calling for stronger legislation…? Because that’s a dangerous assumption to make, as the opposite is true. Parents who’ve lost kids to drugs are calling for an end to prohibition, because legalisation and regulation reduces harm. It’s high time it was accepted that young people are going to want to experiment and allow them to do that safely. Drugs education – proper education, not a Mr Mackey “Drugs are bad, m’kay…? Don’t do drugs” approach, but proper lessons designed, as with sex education, to reduce harm. How many teens would know that MDMA is an amphetamine…? How many would know that it can cause similar adverse effects to speed and crystal meth…? Leah Betts didn’t die of an MDMA OD, she died of water toxicity, because she didn’t realise that MDMA can cause severe electrolyte imbalance. That’s why young people die – not because the substances themselves are inherently dangerous. Yes, I realise this is supposed to be about weed, but I’m just so angry and pissed off with everything surrounding the MoDA and the PSA that I’m in a ranting mood.
Starmer needs to start listening to the right people – fuck the police, they know fuck all (apart from this [bloke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick), he’s on our side, but he’s Lib Dem (who seem to be the only party talking any sense on this, pity they’re polling single figures). He is ex-plod, though.
One other thing – county lines. If the government was serious about tackling them, it would be looking at decriminalisation at a very basic first step.
Y’know what I think…? I reckon that forces are actually running some kind of competition, some kind of league for who can bust the most people for drugs in a year. Perhaps it’s a points-based system: 1 point for Class C, 3 for Class B, 5 for Class A. Why else would some forces be so keen to increase cannabis from B to A…? They’re probably losing. Need more points to avoid relegation. I reckon I’m only half-joking. There’s probably some kind of bonus if the arrest is black.
Finally, prohibition makes research into the therapeutic application of currently illicit substances the preserve of pharmaceutical giants, who often have an agenda to push and can be very easily bought by government.
If Starmer wants to understand why people won’t vote Labour, then he needs to start to understand the mood of the people on subjects like this. He doesn’t, and this is a massive problem should he want to be the next PM.
[https://anyoneschild.org](https://anyoneschild.org) – these are the people Starmer needs to be talking to, bereaved parents.
[https://www.beckleyfoundation.org](https://www.beckleyfoundation.org) – funding research into the therapeutic use of psychedelics, wholly funded by public donations.
As an autist, I am very interested in research being done in the micro-dosing of LSD and MDMA to enable autistic people to exist in a society which doesn’t seem to want the neurodiverse in it.
Yes, this post will probably be removed for being off-topic, but I am angry; if you still believe that prohibition is about harm-reduction and crime prevention, you are part of the problem.
Dear Suella: Locking people up doesn’t reduce crime (if anything, it creates it because prisons are an excellent place for dealers to network). The way to reduce crime is to stop passing legislation which creates it. Drug users aren’t criminals (no victim, no crime), addiction is addiction, whether it’s to alcohol or heroin. A junkie should be treated the same as an alcoholic – and alcohol kills more per annum than heroin. Drug use is a health issue, not a criminal issue.
I’ve watched people die from accidental overdoses; if their drugs of choice were legal they’d still be alive.
Prohibition creates crime; the street price of Class A drugs is such that people are committing crime to pay for their addiction. Legalisation would reduce crime because people would be able to have access to these substances at regulated prices and wouldn’t need to commit crimes to obtain them.
Prohibition enslaves children and young people via county lines
Prohibition kills
**Legalise. Regulate. Educate**.
We need to start breaking stupid, dangerous and insane laws. If I wasn’t sick and stuck in a ‘care’ home, I’d be up for mass civil disobedience.
Can the police charge themselves with wasting police time?
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So while most Western countries are de-criminalising or straight up making purchase legal, the UK wants to give up to life sentence for distribution and 8 years for use?
The tories really are destroying this country on their way out.
What are they smoking?
Honestly, these people.
Do we even have the police force needed to enforce this?
Just shows how incompetent and archaic the Conservatives are. The sooner we get rid of them, the better for the whole of the UK.
A gateway drug, really? Is it 1950 again?
I really wish these articles would end by pointing out that cannabis is totally legal in Canada and de facto legal in much of the US, and nothing particularly bad has happened while bringing in huge amounts of tax money for public health and other worthy causes.
Okay, but ***WHY?***
(rhetorical)
As said the rest of the world is decriminalising or legalising, we have it set at B class and apparently some want it upgraded to an A class…but WHY?!
Especially given the health benefits to some. Is this an extention on Tories war on disabled people?
It has been catagorically proven around the world that cannabis is safer when decriminalised. End of discussion.
It’s only a gateway drug because you have to go to dealers to get it.
Alcohol would be a gateway drug if the bartender offered you a line with your beer.
Edit: And to raise the class to A, might encourage a dealer that previously only sold the herb, to diversify, making the gateway drug argument a self-fulfilling prophecy. “You might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb”.
Fucking PCCs. Scrap the lot of them, or force them to actually spend some time as a PC.
Surprise, surprise, the spokesperson used to work in the pharmaceutical industry…
Make it legal and tax it 30% , send the money to NHS
If this happens, that’s it, I’m actually leaving this train wreck of a country.
Legalize it like the rest of the world, and tax it, you actual bunch of morons.
Say it with me, one more time: “the state does not have the right to tell me what to put in my body.”
Nothing but pharmaceutical lobbying, they’ve failed in America and they’re panicking the same will happen here.
> But David Sidwick, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Dorset, said that cannabis was “driving harm” in communities.
>”We’re seeing it because it’s a gateway drug. If you look at the young people in treatment, the number one drug they are in treatment for is cannabis.”
> Mr Sidwick, who **used to work in the pharmaceutical industry**,…
Our prisons are overcrowded and understaffed and our police force is overstretched.
What exactly is the benefit of further criminalising a drug that’s defacto legal, relatively harmless and could give a boost to the tax coffers?
It’s so backwards
Just the term “conservative police chiefs” scares the shit outa me.
Coming from a police officer… what a fucking daft idea.
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I wonder what the average Bobby on the street thinks about a small bit of puff. A few years ago I was outside my flat rolling a spliff & a police officer walked past. I didn’t know what to do so all I could say was “it’s only a cigarette” knowing full well no one roles ciggies in a long blue slim, he knew and I knew it wasn’t tobacco in there. He literally said “I don’t care what’s in there mate” and kept walking.
Didn’t Theresa Mays husband make millions out of shares in Canadian Marijuana companies ? Or something similar ? Or did I just imagine this ?
Microdosing cannabis every evening has been a godsend to me. It allows me to be a functioning adult, it is part recreational and medicinal for me as it offsets my horrible morning migraines (low-grade brain tumour).
I used to find it hard to get up for work, or even remotely function before mid-day. But now, I am doing far better than I was years ago.
For context, I spend £20-£30 a month on the stuff! all about moderation and legislation to keep mild drugs like cannabis from having ill effects on people.
This, like the ‘anti woke’ stuff, is just red meat for the Mail / Express to rile up the curtain twitcher vote for the next election.
The tories only care about keeping the priveliges and wealth of the already priviliged and wealthy.
This stuff is just to get easily angered puritans to vote for them, and will be dropped as soon as they get back in.
Conservatism is just one flavour now I guess – American. They are just importing all their bullshit. It’ll be trying to get us to have guns next I suppose?
The war on drugs has been fought and the drugs won. The Tories are looking for another headline grab, and this is it lol. “Keep it relentless” – it’s in the playbook, it’s out there and everyone loves the game right?
First step should be to make it legal to grow up to 10 plants for personal use. 10 is the minimum amount you need for the yield of a few plants. This would solve so many issues and we should get rid of possession being illegal. I can understand synthetic drugs being banned and illegal but not non altered plants, it’s ridiculous. You can legally buy Aconitum in garden centres which could be used to poison or kill someone. Stones from soft fruit are highly poisonous once crushed yet no warning is shown in supermarkets. Yet the flower of a plant that basically dulls down aggression and can help with hundreds of ailments is illegal to use or sell in this country.
We are such a stupid race of people. But the powers to be in bed with big pharma want to keep this illegal.
This country is fucked, we need a sea change in the whole political system and oust all these self serving twats, every party needs to go, how we can be this backwards compared to the rest of the world is beyond me
The Tories are off their own meds clearly. Such poor judgment by these old victorian era fools. I hope Putin bombs Parliment. Love to see them try to enforce this with the number of people who smoke/vape it now. Didn’t the number of people who use cannabis actually overtake the number of tobacco smokers in some categories?
10 Drugs are bad because they’re illegal
20 Drugs are illegal because they’re bad
30 Goto 10
Run_
This is ridiculous. They hate cannabis because it stops people behaving like good little capitalism slaves. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on
Fuck off you ignorant pieces of shit.
The only reason cannabis can ever be a ‘gateway drug’, is if people are forced to buy it in circles where harder drugs can also be purchased.
If the arugment is ‘it’s the first drug people try’, then usually that’s incorrect anyway, because alcohol is usually the first, so by that argument, alchohol would also need to be a class A drug.
These police clown chiefs need to go, they’re either dinosaurs with no sense of logic, or they’re being paid to say this, either way, just fuck off.
And what happens when it’s classed the same as heroin? – then some people try cannabis for the first time, realise it’s not as bad as what they’ve been told, and then think ‘ive been lied to – maybe heroin isn’t so bad either’.
Decriminalise all drugs. Make some of them like cannabis, psilocybin mushrooms, whichever party drug gets taken to festivals, and a few others, legal and able to be sold over the counter.
Stuff like heroin, coke, and meth maybe not legalised. I don’t know enough about them to confidently say. They seem more dangerous from what I’ve read.
Why magic mushrooms are class A is beyond me. I’ve seen so many studies showing their beneficial effects on mental health.
I suggest restricting smoking of cannabis to special shops or designated parks. That way you don’t get the horrible smell everywhere.
Tax those sales and use the money to dump these draconian shitbags into a volcano. The leftovers can go towards NHS, education, police etc.
I’ve never been a massive stoner but god damn when I have dabbled all it did was make my duff neck hurt a lot less for about 3 days after and I invented a posher kind of cheese on toast (4 kinds of cheese lol). Full disclosure I know I didnt invent it but it seemed like an amazing idea at the time that I’d never considered.
Curiously didn’t turn into a cartel runner etc.
I’ve never seen a smoker cause any trouble, if they wanted to point a finger at something they should look at foodball drunk violence. That is way more of an issue!
FFS yeah let’s make one of the only things that makes life bearable in this godforsaken hellhole even more illegal.
Ironically we’re the biggest distributor of medical marijuana in the world. Yet another crappy example of one rule for me, another rule for thee. I’m hating the U.K. more and more as the days go on
“But David Sidwick, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Dorset, said that cannabis was “driving harm” in communities.”
And sending them all to prison will decrease harm????? What planet do these people live on?
All drug abuse is a symptom, not a cause.
Just my thought from over in North America. They could want this as an excuse to have more power over searching and detaining young people, usually in lower-income areas.
The stupid thing is, by making cannabis illegal and underground, the police are encouraging the use of K2 and upcoming synthetics, which are being produced to kill off your young people. It’s f*cked. Cannabis in Canada raised money for schools, and it’s caused less trouble in violence and hospital visits than alcohol.
Those adults need to grow up for the good of the kids. Maybe they should all dose MDMA, have some group therapy, and create a positive society that they care about. Good luck!
Regulars will know my sentiments on prohibition – and there can be no doubt now that this has fuck all to do with harm reduction (as if it ever did). Do people honestly still buy that BS…? This is, more than anything, a human rights issue. Everyone, unless it can be demonstrated that they are not of sound mind, has a right to bodily autonomy. What you, I or anyone else puts into our bodies is nobody else’s fucking business. This is why I can’t fathom the Labour front bench reaction when Khan said he was considering legalising it in London – Starmer is a former human rights QC, for fuck’s sake, this is a human rights issues first and foremost. The police don’t have the first fucking clue; for a start the plod should be wholly independent of government, and second they should NOT be advising government on issues they know fuck all about.
This is [Erowid](https://www.erowid.org/splash.php), it’s one of the oldest sites on the Web, and a mine, a veritable trove of unbiased, impartial, advice on psychoactive plants and chemicals – how many would have known it existed had I not linked to it…? I only know of two other similar sites, neither UK based (like Erowid, they’re both based in the US). This is what prohibition does, it makes information on safe imbibing illegal. It criminalises safety and promotes harm. It makes criminals out of the sick, and it pushes things underground where they’re sold by who knows who…?
It’s time Starmer started talking – and listening – to the right people; not the plod, those who have lost relatives to illicit substances, to scientists, to researchers, to anyone who’s ever used an illicit substance for health reasons; is KS assuming that parents who’ve lost teens to MDMA, ket, coke, heroin, etc., would be calling for stronger legislation…? Because that’s a dangerous assumption to make, as the opposite is true. Parents who’ve lost kids to drugs are calling for an end to prohibition, because legalisation and regulation reduces harm. It’s high time it was accepted that young people are going to want to experiment and allow them to do that safely. Drugs education – proper education, not a Mr Mackey “Drugs are bad, m’kay…? Don’t do drugs” approach, but proper lessons designed, as with sex education, to reduce harm. How many teens would know that MDMA is an amphetamine…? How many would know that it can cause similar adverse effects to speed and crystal meth…? Leah Betts didn’t die of an MDMA OD, she died of water toxicity, because she didn’t realise that MDMA can cause severe electrolyte imbalance. That’s why young people die – not because the substances themselves are inherently dangerous. Yes, I realise this is supposed to be about weed, but I’m just so angry and pissed off with everything surrounding the MoDA and the PSA that I’m in a ranting mood.
Starmer needs to start listening to the right people – fuck the police, they know fuck all (apart from this [bloke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Paddick,_Baron_Paddick), he’s on our side, but he’s Lib Dem (who seem to be the only party talking any sense on this, pity they’re polling single figures). He is ex-plod, though.
One other thing – county lines. If the government was serious about tackling them, it would be looking at decriminalisation at a very basic first step.
Y’know what I think…? I reckon that forces are actually running some kind of competition, some kind of league for who can bust the most people for drugs in a year. Perhaps it’s a points-based system: 1 point for Class C, 3 for Class B, 5 for Class A. Why else would some forces be so keen to increase cannabis from B to A…? They’re probably losing. Need more points to avoid relegation. I reckon I’m only half-joking. There’s probably some kind of bonus if the arrest is black.
Finally, prohibition makes research into the therapeutic application of currently illicit substances the preserve of pharmaceutical giants, who often have an agenda to push and can be very easily bought by government.
If Starmer wants to understand why people won’t vote Labour, then he needs to start to understand the mood of the people on subjects like this. He doesn’t, and this is a massive problem should he want to be the next PM.
[https://anyoneschild.org](https://anyoneschild.org) – these are the people Starmer needs to be talking to, bereaved parents.
[https://www.beckleyfoundation.org](https://www.beckleyfoundation.org) – funding research into the therapeutic use of psychedelics, wholly funded by public donations.
As an autist, I am very interested in research being done in the micro-dosing of LSD and MDMA to enable autistic people to exist in a society which doesn’t seem to want the neurodiverse in it.
Yes, this post will probably be removed for being off-topic, but I am angry; if you still believe that prohibition is about harm-reduction and crime prevention, you are part of the problem.
Dear Suella: Locking people up doesn’t reduce crime (if anything, it creates it because prisons are an excellent place for dealers to network). The way to reduce crime is to stop passing legislation which creates it. Drug users aren’t criminals (no victim, no crime), addiction is addiction, whether it’s to alcohol or heroin. A junkie should be treated the same as an alcoholic – and alcohol kills more per annum than heroin. Drug use is a health issue, not a criminal issue.
I’ve watched people die from accidental overdoses; if their drugs of choice were legal they’d still be alive.
Prohibition creates crime; the street price of Class A drugs is such that people are committing crime to pay for their addiction. Legalisation would reduce crime because people would be able to have access to these substances at regulated prices and wouldn’t need to commit crimes to obtain them.
Prohibition enslaves children and young people via county lines
Prohibition kills
**Legalise. Regulate. Educate**.
We need to start breaking stupid, dangerous and insane laws. If I wasn’t sick and stuck in a ‘care’ home, I’d be up for mass civil disobedience.
Can the police charge themselves with wasting police time?