There are no soft drugs - disabuse yourself of this idea (although you would have to be a non drug-taker to see this.)
All the illegal drugs are illegal for good reasons.
Portugal is a good example of how to lower drug abuse.
There are no soft drugs - disabuse yourself of this idea (although you would have to be a non drug-taker to see this.)
All the illegal drugs are illegal for good reasons.
And will stay illegal until they can find a way to tax them.All the illegal drugs are illegal for good reasons.
Those who say "alcohol is legal and yet it causes trouble, death, addiction blah blah blah" as a reason for drug legalisation do not make any sense to me.
And another thing...only non drug-takers should decide whether illegal drugs remain illegal or not
You're probably a User, so by your own rules, you have no say in the matter.
Disagree! When I was growing up nobody took drugs...it was something you heard about on telly, something people in "that London" did - much like you hear of outrageous things going on in today's London but not the rest of the country. The only local drug use you did hear about was in the papers when somebody was caught and prosecuted. The police kept it down then; that they have given up now is why drug abuse is rife - not because of the defeatist loony left belief in inevitability.
A police chief (of Durham was it?) said recently that he conducted a massive and expensive operation to nail drug dealers in his area. It was successful, but , he said, dealing and supplies were back to previous levels within hours. His conclusion was that the police shouldn't bother. My conclusion is greater and more severe punishment...with sufficient punishment you will prevent and/or catch all wrongdoers. Also necessary is the banning of all drug advertising and propaganda. In my childhood, we simply did not know about drugs,
Just because you didn't know about drugs growing up didn't mean people didn't take them and believe me, it happened in small towns and the countryside too, not just London. Small towns are boring to youngsters, drugs get taken. You personally may not have mixed with people who took drugs, so you all seemed more naive but it would've gone on. The UK has taken drugs for years and years. Oscar Wilde wrote about it and have you never heard of the Opium Wars?!!Disagree! When I was growing up nobody took drugs...it was something you heard about on telly, something people in "that London" did - much like you hear of outrageous things going on in today's London but not the rest of the country. The only local drug use you did hear about was in the papers when somebody was caught and prosecuted. The police kept it down then; that they have given up now is why drug abuse is rife - not because of the defeatist loony left belief in inevitability.
A police chief (of Durham was it?) said recently that he conducted a massive and expensive operation to nail drug dealers in his area. It was successful, but , he said, dealing and supplies were back to previous levels within hours. His conclusion was that the police shouldn't bother. My conclusion is greater and more severe punishment...with sufficient punishment you will prevent and/or catch all wrongdoers. Also necessary is the banning of all drug advertising and propaganda. In my childhood, we simply did not know about drugs,
Just because you didn't know about drugs growing up didn't mean people didn't take them and believe me, it happened in small towns and the countryside too, not just London. Small towns are boring to youngsters, drugs get taken. You personally may not have mixed with people who took drugs, so you all seemed more naive but it would've gone on. The UK has taken drugs for years and years. Oscar Wilde wrote about it and have you never heard of the Opium Wars?!!
And will stay illegal until they can find a way to tax them.
It seems to me drugs are as commonplace now as it was when I went out with mates to a pub. They dont seem to mind what they try either, coke, ketamine etc etc.