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Police chief calls for drug legalisation
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Its plainly the truth though, make them illegal and you create the biggest money spinner criminals have ever seen.
He's said it before, and no, it wont start a debate because anything other than 'cracking down hard on the pushers of evil' is wolly lefty liberalism and means we just want to hug and kiss crack dealers.
But doing one area of London alone was stupid, it basically lead to people going there to buy, which is rubbish. But I suppose it was a half arsed small step in the right direction.
Seems they are always going to be dangerous really.
And traffic wardens do not obey any rules around here. You park outside a shop with a sign up saying, loading bay for vans, and your in a van and begin unloading your van to make a delivery they still come up and put a ticket on your van and say clearly, the sign is only a suggestion, if you confront them over it.
For loading/unloading there needs to be someone in attendance at the van at all times.
Maybe, speed limits isnt a good example, but legalising all drugs will decrease the problem not eradicate it. Its best beneift is to take money away from criminals i agree, but not remove the drug problem of users.
So you read my account of events then ignored what it said just so you could try and be right in another post? There was someone stood by the van at all times.
Drug problems are to do with the abuse of a drug and the quality of a drug not purely the drug in and of itself.
Traffic wardens act with impunity, even when your in a parking zone and paid to park they give you a ticket coz the front bumber is slightly over a line by a fraction of an inch.
You need to realise when your wrong.
As for drugs, my point is even when they are legal, drugs will still be abused as people will still be addicted to them, like people become addicted and dependent on cigerettes and alcohol.
Am i just been naive of how addictive drugs are?
How many drinks companies have an armed militia?
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only ten percent of users have any kind of problem.
Drugs arent one thing, some are addictive certainly, but others although they can be habit forming are hardly going to lead to rack and ruin for most users.
But the point isnt that legal supply would be great for everyone, its that illegal supply has no benefits and lots of down sides.
Its not really as simple as that though is it, given we have an NHS.
Yup. The Mail would actually explode into insults and scare-mongering tactics in a second.
The very concept of punishing a fellow human being for doing something for pleasure that harms no others is one of the biggest aberrations in human history. One day in the future such mentality will have been long abandoned, and people will look back and think 'I can't believe that as recently as the 21st century mankind thought appropriate to punish individuals for taking drugs'. It truly is too ridiculous for words.
Of course it is, but purely saying 'its my body I can do what I want' makes no sense, no man is an island as the saying goes. And it is precisely because our actions impact on others that we should minimise the harm drugs do and to do that we need to control their use, something thats impossible when they are illegal.