Make all drugs legal

[DVR]

Our esteemed (sp) cheif of police has now declared he wants to make all drugs legal, this guy must be taking the things himself. He's also in the local papers for letting oap's have speed guns and log the numbers of cars caught speeding, they have to have a community police officer with them to read the number plates as the oap's can't see them, wouldnt it be better to just let the cpo use the gun, they then send you a letter to tell you you've been seen speeding, but they cant do anything about it. he's a disgrace to the police force.

[DecoWarrior]

why the current drugs policy clearly isnt working isnt it time for a review, differnat generations have differant opinions on drugs, why should people people be penalised and turned into criminals for the odd e or cannabis, the current drug laws are hypocritical

[DVR]

Its not the people who smoke the odd joint that commit the crimes though is it? I agree something has to be done, but would you be happy to go for a meal or a day out and have someone injecting next to you? I wouldnt for sure, Almost all of the hard drug users I know have gone down the same path, some of them had very good jobs etc, they all " could handle it" and "stop anytime they wanted" but they couldnt , and whats left is a person that will do anything for a fix, and if thats stealing from family or knocking a granny on the head than thats what they do.

[nickb]

Originally Posted by DVR

....and whats left is a person that will do anything for a fix, and if thats stealing from family or knocking a granny on the head than thats what they do.

But they do these things BECAUSE the drugs they use are illegal.

Pharmaceutical diamorphine (heroin) does little damage to the body and users can live perfectly normal lives. What does the damage is the crap that street smack gets cut with and the scumbags that addicts have to do business with in order to satisfy their addiction.

Most sensible analysis of drug use and addiction will come to the conclusion that legalising certain drugs and making them available on prescription to addicts can only improve the situation. This of course is not going to happen because the Daily Mail brigade would go apeshit at such a suggestion and politicians don't have the bottle to do the right thing.

If it's Brunstrom that's suggesting this, it's good to see he's not a complete fuckwit.

[DVR]

I know what your saying Nick, and agree with most of it, however the friends that I referred to were on cocaine, and could afford to buy it, they were all ok to start with, then they needed more and more to get the same fix, one lost everything, company, house ,M3 bmw the lot, and he thought he was in controle of the drug.

[nickb]

Coke users don't tend to be the ones that break into your house to nick your DVD player though. If those idiots want to keep on shoving the marching powder up their noses they're welcome to it.

Ideally we would be educating our kids to stay well away from drugs, but that's not happening and to consign them to a life of burglary, robbery or prostitution makes all our lives that little bit worse.

If someone makes a mistake crossing the road or, closer to home here, whilst diving, the NHS steps in and does what it can to make things better. Most of us would applaud that. Why can't we have the same compassion for those that fuck up due to the pressure of their mates or a drug dealer?

[DVR]

Again I agree with you, but how do you go about it, legalise everything so they can shoot up in public without getting nicked, so they can sit outside your house or mine and leave dirty needles by your gate? There are those that want help and there are those that have no intention of getting any form of help, I feel very sorry for the former but dont want the latter anywhere near my my house, my kids or my grandkids.

As a ps: with the government refusing to treat , smokers, alchaholics and the obese as they are self inflicted , do you really think they will do anything for drug addicts.

[DecoWarrior]

yes thats the problem though the law targest recreational users and often punishes them more than regular hard core offenders the law is directed intothe worng place, thats why it needs a review, the ammount of resources that are directed into these things are disporortionate and i am sure the police would rather be doing other things than chasing people after a small buzz, i am sure if things like cannabis and excstacy and cocaine would be viewed differantly if they were taxed like booze and cigs

[DVR]

I'm not sure how legalising all drugs would work, it seems just another random headline grabbing statement from our cheif of police, the last one was drugs should be sold in every corner shop, alchopops have given us a huge problem with teenage drunks, if drugs were legal do you not think the same teenagers would be trying these?

[Daz217]

Lets go the whole hog legalise everything then there would be no crime, problem solved
"Daily Mail Brigade" my arse Drugs are bad news full stop there is no justification in legalising them whatsoever.
The it would cut crime argument is unfounded the drugs would still be available illegally i.e without a prescription(just like illegal Fags, DVDs,Booze etc) so there would still be a market for the drug dealing scumbags even if they were available on script.
Prescriptions would be regulated and treatment courses would be required in order to get them "legally" which would cause the users to seek simpler means of obtaining their fix namely the same old dealers that are in existence now. The legal stuff would need to be taken at the pharmacy much like methadone scripts otherwise the users take the stuff away cut it down and deal it. Making them legal does not mean that the government are going to hand them out like Smarties furthermore why should the taxpayer fund drug habits. If that's the case i'll have a script for a case of Boddingtons , a litre of Vodka and 20 Bensons