Gains favour with people who know very little about drugs and addicts and think decriminalisation means hard drugs will be sold in tesco or corner shops
He doesn’t look like someone who is a respected authority on drugs, to be honest
He looks like he would be good organising a fete or a vegetable show
The Daily mail boomers thats why. When that generation dies off maybe.
Because it doesn’t play well to the 81000 people who elected Truss this year.
Not surprised in the absolute slightest. They are the one’s who have to actually interact with addicts, find the overdosed victims bodies and deal with the reality their is next to nothing they can do to deal with the problem every single day.
Still politicians won’t support it, not until it starts to hit their voting majorities.
It wouldn’t be so exciting and seedy to leave traces all over number 10.
Because as popular as it may be on Reddit (and with me), politics is almost entirely about appealing to Middle England who shit themselves every time they smell a bit of weed
Because they would lose the conservative (ideology) drum on law and order. Let’s face it, if they legalised drugs, there would be no way to victimise groups which they love to target (the young and poor), and they would automatically lose out on a hefty amount of support from old farts who have nothing to do but complain and vote Tory.
Oh, and many of their members/donors would face immediate competition from suppliers outside of Britain.
It’s worse when you’ve got one of the worst cities in the world (Glasgow) for drug abuse and you can do FUCK all about it because of an English government.
Because someone, somewhere, is making far too much money from it remaining so.
Ben that way for decades. Drugs liberalisation has always been a vote loser.
Only politicians should be allowed to take cocaine.
When they are going to make it a crime to share Netflix passwords then that might give you the answer!
Layer cake was a documentary, the people who are in power are the people who profit from vice and keeping it illegal keeps us poor and them rich, like everything else they do.
Looking tough on blue-collar crime is a vote-winner.
Some are making money from the current situation? Prisons, Growing and selling medical cannabis, stuff. Good to have reasons to have leverage over people, and drugs are always helpful. Also, they, the government, don’t like the population enjoying themselves.
It’s not like it’s even a generation thing as much as they’d love us to think as such. Plenty of people smoke weed these days because the fact is it helps and we’re living in a country with ruthlessly underfunded healthcare. As for the harder drugs the fact is it still isn’t enforced, unless someone is being dangerous in some way changes are your average Joe won’t bother to call the cops on someone high – and that’s assuming they’re even on drugs in public.
The only people who want drugs illeagal are those living in a different world. I.e : those on private healthcare and live in nice areas away from most crime. Oh wait that describes politicians doesn’t it? What a surprise…
Because the Daily Mail wants them to stay with criminal penalties and has convinced it’s readership that this is what they want.
I agree with weed and other low field stuff but against hard drugs
Why is decriminalisation a want one want them all type scenario
Instead of prosecuting users of hard drugs such as heroin, cocaine and ecstasy, officers will recommend addiction services (dealers, and those who refuse to cooperate, will still be prosecuted).
But why would dealers co-op makes it sound like they can deal in the open and shoot up in open.
Because they want to feel naughty when they snort a line.
So why police don’t investigate politicians and other policymakers behind the current status quo?
If there is literally no reason for prohibition to stay, then surely somewhere along the line there are copious amounts of brown envelopes changing hands.
Or is it too difficult for police to do and they just prefer to moan?
There’s money to be made, the average person isn’t allowed to tap into this market, sorry, this is for the riches and party friends only
Police officer here. This is not news or even new.
Simple drug possession offences have been being dealt with non criminally for ages.
We’ve been using these courses for atleast the last 5 years for anyone found in possession of personal use quantities of any drug as a first offence where they are not involved in supply. We hardly charge anyone with simple drug possession, certainly not as a stand alone offence, it might get charged alongside another offence but no one gets sent to court for a £10bag
If we did this soooooo many problems would be solved and even more money would come into the economy. Seriously, it’s a no brainer!
I think drug use should be legal in the presence of your own home as long as there’s no children present but also outside/in public then it should be a crime. Also if you’re hospitalised and it’s found you have drugs in your system then you should have to pay for all of the healthcare you receive – ideally it should be the same for drunkards.
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Gains favour with people who know very little about drugs and addicts and think decriminalisation means hard drugs will be sold in tesco or corner shops
He doesn’t look like someone who is a respected authority on drugs, to be honest
He looks like he would be good organising a fete or a vegetable show
The Daily mail boomers thats why. When that generation dies off maybe.
Because it doesn’t play well to the 81000 people who elected Truss this year.
Not surprised in the absolute slightest. They are the one’s who have to actually interact with addicts, find the overdosed victims bodies and deal with the reality their is next to nothing they can do to deal with the problem every single day.
Still politicians won’t support it, not until it starts to hit their voting majorities.
It wouldn’t be so exciting and seedy to leave traces all over number 10.
Because as popular as it may be on Reddit (and with me), politics is almost entirely about appealing to Middle England who shit themselves every time they smell a bit of weed
Because they would lose the conservative (ideology) drum on law and order. Let’s face it, if they legalised drugs, there would be no way to victimise groups which they love to target (the young and poor), and they would automatically lose out on a hefty amount of support from old farts who have nothing to do but complain and vote Tory.
Oh, and many of their members/donors would face immediate competition from suppliers outside of Britain.
It’s worse when you’ve got one of the worst cities in the world (Glasgow) for drug abuse and you can do FUCK all about it because of an English government.
Because someone, somewhere, is making far too much money from it remaining so.
Ben that way for decades. Drugs liberalisation has always been a vote loser.
Only politicians should be allowed to take cocaine.
When they are going to make it a crime to share Netflix passwords then that might give you the answer!
Layer cake was a documentary, the people who are in power are the people who profit from vice and keeping it illegal keeps us poor and them rich, like everything else they do.
Looking tough on blue-collar crime is a vote-winner.
Some are making money from the current situation? Prisons, Growing and selling medical cannabis, stuff. Good to have reasons to have leverage over people, and drugs are always helpful. Also, they, the government, don’t like the population enjoying themselves.
It’s not like it’s even a generation thing as much as they’d love us to think as such. Plenty of people smoke weed these days because the fact is it helps and we’re living in a country with ruthlessly underfunded healthcare. As for the harder drugs the fact is it still isn’t enforced, unless someone is being dangerous in some way changes are your average Joe won’t bother to call the cops on someone high – and that’s assuming they’re even on drugs in public.
The only people who want drugs illeagal are those living in a different world. I.e : those on private healthcare and live in nice areas away from most crime. Oh wait that describes politicians doesn’t it? What a surprise…
Because the Daily Mail wants them to stay with criminal penalties and has convinced it’s readership that this is what they want.
I agree with weed and other low field stuff but against hard drugs
Why is decriminalisation a want one want them all type scenario
Instead of prosecuting users of hard drugs such as heroin, cocaine and ecstasy, officers will recommend addiction services (dealers, and those who refuse to cooperate, will still be prosecuted).
But why would dealers co-op makes it sound like they can deal in the open and shoot up in open.
Because they want to feel naughty when they snort a line.
So why police don’t investigate politicians and other policymakers behind the current status quo?
If there is literally no reason for prohibition to stay, then surely somewhere along the line there are copious amounts of brown envelopes changing hands.
Or is it too difficult for police to do and they just prefer to moan?
Probably because of this guy; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kenward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kenward)
There’s money to be made, the average person isn’t allowed to tap into this market, sorry, this is for the riches and party friends only
Police officer here. This is not news or even new.
Simple drug possession offences have been being dealt with non criminally for ages.
We’ve been using these courses for atleast the last 5 years for anyone found in possession of personal use quantities of any drug as a first offence where they are not involved in supply. We hardly charge anyone with simple drug possession, certainly not as a stand alone offence, it might get charged alongside another offence but no one gets sent to court for a £10bag
If we did this soooooo many problems would be solved and even more money would come into the economy. Seriously, it’s a no brainer!
I think drug use should be legal in the presence of your own home as long as there’s no children present but also outside/in public then it should be a crime. Also if you’re hospitalised and it’s found you have drugs in your system then you should have to pay for all of the healthcare you receive – ideally it should be the same for drunkards.