Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Monday, December 17, 2012
Professor David Nutt - The Inconvenient Truth About Drugs
Professor David Nutt - The Inconvenient Truth About Drugs
Thursday, March 1, 2012
On the Dutch Hash ban and criminal gang banging
Arab Spring Hash
A new proposition has been forwarded, as a result of the recent Dutch 'Drugs Debate', into the mainstream media, about a proposed 'Hash Ban' based, according to news reports, upon the principle that Hash is imported from other countries such as Morocco, Afghanistan and Lebanon, that constitutes an international crime.
As you may know these countries mentioned above are already engaged in internal conflict and international conflicts that blur the lines of criminality. Afghanistan in particular, or some groups of people there, seemingly know no universal laws and legal system. How do you control lunatics who live in the mountains? Lebanon also sees political and cultural revolutions at the moment, so what effect will the hash ban have, if any, on these countries?
Does this act as a sort of trade embargo, or have a similar effect by putting a large cut in the profits of whoever's making doe in this risky process? Will it just drive up the prices and make Hash a more valuable, rare, and attractively risky product, putting even more profits in the profit makers pockets. And are there any noticeable cultural signifier to you, between Netherlands, Morocco, Afghanistan and Lebanon?
Dealing and dealing?
And then, there's the argument, or my argument, that a little Hash or even a lot of hash, imported from another country is harmless and timid compared with arms, legal-drugs and intelligence shared by Dutch firms with America, the middle East and the UK, for the purposes of continuing the so called 'war on terror' which acts like a "war on some terror' as it ignores it's own brand of bombing, bankrupting and poisoning people and the environment in the name of business. See Iraq and Afghanistan and the kinds of software, electronics, intelligence and financial support provided by the Dutch private sector to help the war machine, sorry, I mean to say, defence industry.
Nothing left but Right wing?
Now, besides the chemical, biological and nuclear trade between Dutch companies and the international community, including Israel ( Prince Friso was the CEO of a Uranium Enrichment company URENCO) the Netherlands also happens to have a very scary emergent Right Wing political movement, as does Europe as a whole it seems according to some reports, headed by Gert Wilders, a truly awful character who comes off like a CIA dupe with his antagonistic, so called 'anti-immigrant' hateful and UK conservative, US Republican like speeches, films, political platforms. He's a bad apple in a pretty dull pie of Dutch Christian Democrats, and of course the media love him, and so do a bunch of dumb, non-pot smoking morons mostly from the South of Holland who voted him into the current Dutch coalition Government.
I say instead of Hash, ban Gert Wilders and his disgusting hateful moronic trade in slime outside of Dutch boarders, and make a special task force to stop the other hateful moronic parties doing way more damage than any drug: Marie Le Pen's NF, The BNP, the EDL, it's not difficult to spot them is it, OH, oh, freedom of expression. They must be allowed to have their say, the Freedom to say.... whatever hate laced double speak and straight up lies they wish, with however much financial backing and media support channel you can get. Freedom? what about the freedom to inhale some kind plant material, or eat a light Hash cake, the preferred medicine of many Medical Marijuana patients?
Aha, and now you see why Gert Wilders is head of the 'Freedom Party'. or 'Party for Freedom' Please, once again, I know you just did it, but, check George Orwell's concept of double speak: I keep thinking...that's it....doublespeak, and that too...doublespeak....rings so true of daily international news and entertainment, and most of my poetry....deliberate distortion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak
Move to Ban, propose to ban and simply BAN
On top of the idiocy of the proposed new laws to ban hash, you have the amplified idiocy of the media channels that broadcast their daily poop-a-scoop. Within hours of the Dutch meeting coming to a close, the major news wires broadcast their best shot, a combination of dumb soundbites from a handful of members of parliament and 'the point of view of your average stoner'. But here's the center piece, the quote that defines the entire days meetings, according to the news dogs:
"Almost all of the hash that is sold in Dutch coffee shops is smuggled into the Netherlands by international criminal gangs from countries like Afghanistan, Morocco and Lebanon," said Ard van der Steur, a member of the ruling Liberal Party.--http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/01/netherlands-drugs-idUSL5E8E12HN20120301
What is criminal, illegal, unjust and unfair? who decides, and by what methods, do you see stark double standards and hypocrisy? why kick a hornets nest? why a total ban? how will it be enforced, what will be the punishment? why do I not hear any of these questions in the news items?
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
My response to "UN: drug gangs controlling parts of British cities"
HI, greetings readers. Once in a while I read one or two articles from a newspaper and get overwhelmed by the sense of inbalance. A lack of fairness, comprehensive thinking and alternative views on whatever issue they choose to make NEWS.
Here we have an example of 'soundbites' and 'quotes' from the INCB (International Narcotics Control Board) 2011 report, that from the off, seems flawed to me, in its inability to entertain the possibility of legalization as a strategy for Global harm reduction, let alone the medical and industrial uses of Cannabis and hemp in particular, the masses of new jobs, new cultural awareness etc.
So I'll add my comments to the article in BOLD CAPITALS. Please excuse my ranting tone, it's just stooping the level of sillyness I see in these arguments and statements made, so funny eh.
--Steven Pratt.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9110374/UN-drug-gangs-controlling-parts-of-British-cities.html
Here we have an example of 'soundbites' and 'quotes' from the INCB (International Narcotics Control Board) 2011 report, that from the off, seems flawed to me, in its inability to entertain the possibility of legalization as a strategy for Global harm reduction, let alone the medical and industrial uses of Cannabis and hemp in particular, the masses of new jobs, new cultural awareness etc.
So I'll add my comments to the article in BOLD CAPITALS. Please excuse my ranting tone, it's just stooping the level of sillyness I see in these arguments and statements made, so funny eh.
--Steven Pratt.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9110374/UN-drug-gangs-controlling-parts-of-British-cities.html
UN: drug gangs controlling parts of British cities
Parts of British cities are becoming no-go areas where drugs gangs are
effectively in control, a United Nations drugs chief said today.
(DRUGS GANGS? DOES SUPERDRUG AND BOOTS QUALIFY AS 'DRUGS GANGS?' PLEASE, DEFINE YOUR TERMS!)
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Police officer arrests a suspected drug dealer Photo: Getty Images
10:00AM GMT 28 Feb 2012
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(SUSPECTED DRUG DEALER? WELL, IF HE TURNS OUT TO BE INNOCENT YOU MIGHT CONSIDER GIVING HIM SOMETHING IN RETURN FOR THE USE OF HIS PHOTO. ALL IN GOOD SPIRITS)
Professor Hamid Ghodse, president of the UN's International Narcotics Control
Board (INCB), said there was ''a vicious cycle of social exclusion and drugs
problems and fractured communities'' in cities such as Birmingham, Liverpool
and Manchester.
(DRUGS PROBLEMS AND FRACTURED COMMUNITIES, VICIOUS CYCLES... YES, DUE TO PROHIBITION, AND THE WAR ON DRUGS, AND MONEY SPENT ON FOREIGN WARS AND SWINDLED BY LOCAL AND NATIONAL POLITICIANS, BANKERS AND CORPORATIONS, IMHO)
(DRUGS PROBLEMS AND FRACTURED COMMUNITIES, VICIOUS CYCLES... YES, DUE TO PROHIBITION, AND THE WAR ON DRUGS, AND MONEY SPENT ON FOREIGN WARS AND SWINDLED BY LOCAL AND NATIONAL POLITICIANS, BANKERS AND CORPORATIONS, IMHO)
The development of ''no-go areas'' was being fuelled by threats such as social
inequality, migration and celebrities normalising drug abuse, he warned.
(WHAT? CELEBRITIES NORMALIZING DRUG ABUSE! WELL, YOUR A CELEBRITY NOW MR GHODSE, BUSY DE-NORMALIZING DRUG-ABUSE NO DOUBT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAT DRUGS, WHAT DO YOU VIEW AS ABUSE? EH?
MIGRATION? MIGRATION OF SOULS?
OH, I GET IT, YOU MEAN NON-WHITE, LOWER MIDDLE CLASS JOBLESS 'CELEBRITIES'.
(WHAT? CELEBRITIES NORMALIZING DRUG ABUSE! WELL, YOUR A CELEBRITY NOW MR GHODSE, BUSY DE-NORMALIZING DRUG-ABUSE NO DOUBT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAT DRUGS, WHAT DO YOU VIEW AS ABUSE? EH?
MIGRATION? MIGRATION OF SOULS?
OH, I GET IT, YOU MEAN NON-WHITE, LOWER MIDDLE CLASS JOBLESS 'CELEBRITIES'.
Helping marginalised communities with drugs problems ''must be a priority'',
he said.
''We are looking at social cohesion, the social disintegration and illegal
drugs.
''In many societies around the world, whether developed or developing, there
are communities within the societies which develop which become no-go areas.
''Drug traffickers, organised crime, drug users, they take over. They will get the sort of governance of those areas.
''Examples are in Brazil, Mexico, in the United States, in the UK, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and therefore it is no good to have only law enforcement, which always shows it does not succeed.''
(OK, I AGREE, AND PRESENT FULL LEGALIZATION OF ALL DRUGS AS THE SOLUTION, WAKE UP YOU MORON!)
Prof Ghodse called for such communities to be offered drug abuse prevention programmes, treatment and rehabilitation services, and the same levels of educational, employment and recreational opportunities as in the wider society.
(THATS A VERY WIDE RANGE OF OLD IDEAS, PEPPERED WITH IDEALISTIC SWEET TALK ABOUT EQUALITY AND WORK. MY THOUGHTS DRIFT TO BANKING ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAMMES, PONZI SCHEME TREATMENT AND FINANCIAL BAIL-OUT REHABILITATION SERVICES. IT MIGHT LOOK GRIM UP NORTH BUDDY, BUT MOST THE REAL PSYCHOPATHS AND SOCIAL PARIAHS ARE AROUND LONDON, WHERE ALL THE GLOBAL CORPORATE ACTION TAKES PLACE BETWEEN THE HUGE PHARMA BORGS, THE BANKS AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, SPREADING CARNIEGE AND DESTRUCTION AND MAYHEM ACROSS THE UK AND THE WORLD. AND YET, SOME WEED SMOKING GANGSTERS WHO REALLY JUST LOVE TO PLAY X-BOX AND SURF THE NET IN VARIOUS ALTERED STATES POSE SUCH A MASSIVE THREAT TO SOCIETY?)
''Youth of these communities must have similar chances to those in the wide society and have a right to be protected from drug abuse and drug dependence,'' he said.
(OH YEAH, I FORGOT, THE TAX PAYERS PAY FOR THIS KIND OF PROTECTION AND TREATMENT ALREADY, THE POLICE ENFORCE YOUR PROHIBITION IN THE UK WITHOUT MERCY. LIKE ANY OTHER CRIME. AND NOW WITH THE ADDED EXCUSE OF PROVIDING EQUAL CHANCES IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY, BY PROTECTING FROM DRUG DEPENDENCE. BULLSHIT! WAKE UP. I SAY.)
''It is crucial that the needs of communities experiencing social disintegration are urgently tackled before the tipping point is reached, beyond which effective action becomes impossible.
''The consequences of failure are too high for society and should be avoided at all cost.''
The INCB's annual report for 2011 found persistent social inequality, migration, emerging cultures of excess and a shift in traditional values were some of the key threats to social cohesion.
(THE TIPPING POINT EH? WHAT TIPPING POINT, WHAT POINT, WHAT PIVOT? AND FROM WHICH AFTER EFFECTIVE ACTION BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE? WHAT? WHEN IS THAT? LEGALIZATION AND DECRIMINALIZATION COULD DO THAT, ACTUALLY, SEE PORTUGAL AND THE NETHERLANDS ON THIS ISSUE. PLEASE. LOOK AND READ FREDERICK POLLACK. THANKS.)
As the gap between rich and poor widens, and ''faced with a future with limited opportunities, individuals within these communities may increasingly become disengaged from the wider society and become involved in a range of personally and socially harmful behaviours, including drug abuse and drug dealing,'' it said.
(LIKE A BAD TRIP HE JUST GOES AROUND AND AROUND SAYING NOTHING MUCH BUT PARANOID STERETYPICAL SOUNDBITES. BULLSHIT. MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE I KNOW SMOKE POT AND HAVE TRIPPED BALLS AT LEAST A FEW TIMES IN A RESPECTFUL AND DILIGENT WAY. YOU, MR GHODSE HAVE OBVIOUSLY NEVER TRIED ANY OF THE DRUGS YOU SO HEARTILY EXPONGE. WAKE UP YOU DICK-HEAD AND PULL THAT INCB FINGER OUT YOUR ASS-HOLE. WHAT ABUSE? HOW MUCH, HOW OFTEN? AND WHAT DEALING? HOW MUCH, HOW OFTEN, WHAT ABOUT THE UK AND US GOV. DRUG DEALING? HAVE YOU EVER ADDRESSED THAT, AND THE DOUBLE STANDARDS, AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT THIS CAN HAVE ON SOME WHO MAY FIGURE YOUR A FRONT FOR THE COPS AND ROBBERS, DUE TO YOUR DARK PARANOID VISIONS AND DIATRIBE.)
The report added: ''While migration offers many positive benefits to the migrant and to society at large, it can create a sense of dislocation from the surrounding community and a sense of vulnerability on the part of those who are displaced.
''Where migrating social groups have travelled from areas associated with illicit drug production and drug abuse, there is a greater likelihood of individuals engaging in forms of drug misuse as a way of coping with such a sense of dislocation.''
(SIMPLY, BOLLOCKS MR GHODSE. BOLLOCKS. YOUR WORDS ARE EMPTY AND MEANINGLESS, AND THE REPORTING HERE ALSO STINKS FOR IT'S CHOICE OF QUOTES AND LACK OF BALANCED ARGUMENT.)
Celebrities' use of illicit drugs may also ''contribute to a growing normalisation of certain forms of drug misuse within the wider society and in turn can lead to the undermining of social cohesion''.
But the INCB warned none of the factors ''should be seen as leading individuals inevitably into a lifestyle of drug abuse and criminality''.
''Whatever the social processes and social pressures at hand, human beings still have the capacity to exercise some element of choice in what they do and what they refrain from doing,'' it said.
(EH, SOME ELEMENT OF CHOICE? WELL NOT IF THAT INVOLVES A LITTLE MEDICAL MARIJUANA, OR A TRIPPY WHIPPY, OR SOME REICHEAN THEARAPY OR NLP COURSES IN MOST PLACES. WHAT SANCTAMONIOUS BULLSHIT THE INCB SPOUTS. AS I SAID, BUNCH OF MORONS.
A Home Office spokesman said: ''The Ending Gang and Youth Violence report published by the Government in 2011 sets out a comprehensive strategy for supporting local areas to reduce the effects of gang violence.
''We want to stop young people from joining gangs in the first place through intervention and support to children and families at risk of gang violence.
''This will be matched with tough and intensive enforcement action to bring perpetrators to justice.''
(NICE ENDING! BOOM, BE WARNED, SO TO SPEAK. WELL I DISAGREE TOTALLY WITH THE INBALANCED VIEWS OF THIS ARTICLE, THE BAD PICTURE OF THE SUSPECTED DRUG DEALER, THE BAD QUOTES FROM MR GHODSE JUST REPEATING THE SAME SHIT. NO STATISTICS, NO HYPERLINKS, JUST ONE RAY OF HOPE, ONE.....
THE VOTING DEVICE WHICH INCLUDES THE PROPOSAL TO LEGALIZE AS A STRATEGY TO DEFEAT ORGANIZED CRIME AND CRIMINAL GANG DEALINGS. AS OF TODAY IT HAS THE MOST VOTES. I REST MY CASE. HEY, MAYBE FOLLOW UP THIS ARTICLE WITH A PRO-LEGALIZATION AND/OR DECRIMINALIZATION PIECE, FEATURING A SMART AND INTELLIGENT SCIENTIST REFUTING EVERY POINT MR GHODSE, THE HOME OFFICE AND THE INCB MAKE.
YOURS SINCERELY,
--STEVE FLY AGARIC 23.
''Drug traffickers, organised crime, drug users, they take over. They will get the sort of governance of those areas.
''Examples are in Brazil, Mexico, in the United States, in the UK, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and therefore it is no good to have only law enforcement, which always shows it does not succeed.''
(OK, I AGREE, AND PRESENT FULL LEGALIZATION OF ALL DRUGS AS THE SOLUTION, WAKE UP YOU MORON!)
Prof Ghodse called for such communities to be offered drug abuse prevention programmes, treatment and rehabilitation services, and the same levels of educational, employment and recreational opportunities as in the wider society.
(THATS A VERY WIDE RANGE OF OLD IDEAS, PEPPERED WITH IDEALISTIC SWEET TALK ABOUT EQUALITY AND WORK. MY THOUGHTS DRIFT TO BANKING ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAMMES, PONZI SCHEME TREATMENT AND FINANCIAL BAIL-OUT REHABILITATION SERVICES. IT MIGHT LOOK GRIM UP NORTH BUDDY, BUT MOST THE REAL PSYCHOPATHS AND SOCIAL PARIAHS ARE AROUND LONDON, WHERE ALL THE GLOBAL CORPORATE ACTION TAKES PLACE BETWEEN THE HUGE PHARMA BORGS, THE BANKS AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, SPREADING CARNIEGE AND DESTRUCTION AND MAYHEM ACROSS THE UK AND THE WORLD. AND YET, SOME WEED SMOKING GANGSTERS WHO REALLY JUST LOVE TO PLAY X-BOX AND SURF THE NET IN VARIOUS ALTERED STATES POSE SUCH A MASSIVE THREAT TO SOCIETY?)
''Youth of these communities must have similar chances to those in the wide society and have a right to be protected from drug abuse and drug dependence,'' he said.
(OH YEAH, I FORGOT, THE TAX PAYERS PAY FOR THIS KIND OF PROTECTION AND TREATMENT ALREADY, THE POLICE ENFORCE YOUR PROHIBITION IN THE UK WITHOUT MERCY. LIKE ANY OTHER CRIME. AND NOW WITH THE ADDED EXCUSE OF PROVIDING EQUAL CHANCES IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY, BY PROTECTING FROM DRUG DEPENDENCE. BULLSHIT! WAKE UP. I SAY.)
''It is crucial that the needs of communities experiencing social disintegration are urgently tackled before the tipping point is reached, beyond which effective action becomes impossible.
''The consequences of failure are too high for society and should be avoided at all cost.''
The INCB's annual report for 2011 found persistent social inequality, migration, emerging cultures of excess and a shift in traditional values were some of the key threats to social cohesion.
(THE TIPPING POINT EH? WHAT TIPPING POINT, WHAT POINT, WHAT PIVOT? AND FROM WHICH AFTER EFFECTIVE ACTION BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE? WHAT? WHEN IS THAT? LEGALIZATION AND DECRIMINALIZATION COULD DO THAT, ACTUALLY, SEE PORTUGAL AND THE NETHERLANDS ON THIS ISSUE. PLEASE. LOOK AND READ FREDERICK POLLACK. THANKS.)
As the gap between rich and poor widens, and ''faced with a future with limited opportunities, individuals within these communities may increasingly become disengaged from the wider society and become involved in a range of personally and socially harmful behaviours, including drug abuse and drug dealing,'' it said.
(LIKE A BAD TRIP HE JUST GOES AROUND AND AROUND SAYING NOTHING MUCH BUT PARANOID STERETYPICAL SOUNDBITES. BULLSHIT. MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE I KNOW SMOKE POT AND HAVE TRIPPED BALLS AT LEAST A FEW TIMES IN A RESPECTFUL AND DILIGENT WAY. YOU, MR GHODSE HAVE OBVIOUSLY NEVER TRIED ANY OF THE DRUGS YOU SO HEARTILY EXPONGE. WAKE UP YOU DICK-HEAD AND PULL THAT INCB FINGER OUT YOUR ASS-HOLE. WHAT ABUSE? HOW MUCH, HOW OFTEN? AND WHAT DEALING? HOW MUCH, HOW OFTEN, WHAT ABOUT THE UK AND US GOV. DRUG DEALING? HAVE YOU EVER ADDRESSED THAT, AND THE DOUBLE STANDARDS, AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT THIS CAN HAVE ON SOME WHO MAY FIGURE YOUR A FRONT FOR THE COPS AND ROBBERS, DUE TO YOUR DARK PARANOID VISIONS AND DIATRIBE.)
The report added: ''While migration offers many positive benefits to the migrant and to society at large, it can create a sense of dislocation from the surrounding community and a sense of vulnerability on the part of those who are displaced.
''Where migrating social groups have travelled from areas associated with illicit drug production and drug abuse, there is a greater likelihood of individuals engaging in forms of drug misuse as a way of coping with such a sense of dislocation.''
(SIMPLY, BOLLOCKS MR GHODSE. BOLLOCKS. YOUR WORDS ARE EMPTY AND MEANINGLESS, AND THE REPORTING HERE ALSO STINKS FOR IT'S CHOICE OF QUOTES AND LACK OF BALANCED ARGUMENT.)
Celebrities' use of illicit drugs may also ''contribute to a growing normalisation of certain forms of drug misuse within the wider society and in turn can lead to the undermining of social cohesion''.
But the INCB warned none of the factors ''should be seen as leading individuals inevitably into a lifestyle of drug abuse and criminality''.
''Whatever the social processes and social pressures at hand, human beings still have the capacity to exercise some element of choice in what they do and what they refrain from doing,'' it said.
(EH, SOME ELEMENT OF CHOICE? WELL NOT IF THAT INVOLVES A LITTLE MEDICAL MARIJUANA, OR A TRIPPY WHIPPY, OR SOME REICHEAN THEARAPY OR NLP COURSES IN MOST PLACES. WHAT SANCTAMONIOUS BULLSHIT THE INCB SPOUTS. AS I SAID, BUNCH OF MORONS.
A Home Office spokesman said: ''The Ending Gang and Youth Violence report published by the Government in 2011 sets out a comprehensive strategy for supporting local areas to reduce the effects of gang violence.
''We want to stop young people from joining gangs in the first place through intervention and support to children and families at risk of gang violence.
''This will be matched with tough and intensive enforcement action to bring perpetrators to justice.''
(NICE ENDING! BOOM, BE WARNED, SO TO SPEAK. WELL I DISAGREE TOTALLY WITH THE INBALANCED VIEWS OF THIS ARTICLE, THE BAD PICTURE OF THE SUSPECTED DRUG DEALER, THE BAD QUOTES FROM MR GHODSE JUST REPEATING THE SAME SHIT. NO STATISTICS, NO HYPERLINKS, JUST ONE RAY OF HOPE, ONE.....
THE VOTING DEVICE WHICH INCLUDES THE PROPOSAL TO LEGALIZE AS A STRATEGY TO DEFEAT ORGANIZED CRIME AND CRIMINAL GANG DEALINGS. AS OF TODAY IT HAS THE MOST VOTES. I REST MY CASE. HEY, MAYBE FOLLOW UP THIS ARTICLE WITH A PRO-LEGALIZATION AND/OR DECRIMINALIZATION PIECE, FEATURING A SMART AND INTELLIGENT SCIENTIST REFUTING EVERY POINT MR GHODSE, THE HOME OFFICE AND THE INCB MAKE.
YOURS SINCERELY,
--STEVE FLY AGARIC 23.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Seventh UK Drug Adviser Quits in Drugs Row
Seventh Drug Adviser Quits in Drugs Row
Yet another member of the British Governments drug advisory board have quit because media and political pressure put on the control, or lack thereof, of drugs in the UK.
The exodus began months ago when the head of the committee, Professor David Nutt was publicly villainized by the Government and media for claiming that marijuana was illegal for political and not scientific reasons and that you have more chance of dying riding a horse than you do taking ecstasy. He was followed by four of his colleagues and then in the last week two more has jumped ship.
The reason for the two new departures is the imminent ban of a drug called mephedrone, and while the Government and media would have the public believe that dozens of people have died because they took the drug, the actual figure of people who have actually been proven to have died from taking the drug is rather low and less exaggerated… It’s one. One person. Not 25.
The drug will apparently be banned by the end of April, and it is certainly curious that the ban comes not from the drug advisers, but from politicians. What can be deduced from this, I guess, would be that either Gordon Brown or his friends regularly take drugs and are in the best position to decide which are safe for us, or there is absolutely no scientific basis for the banning of illegal drugs in the UK. If the advisers would rather quit their job than go along with the Governments decisions, it says a lot for the laws, and the supposed science behind it.
The Liberal Democrat Party home affairs spokesperson Chris Huhne announced that the only way to have science fact introduced, finally, into the drug argument would be to make the ACMD (Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs) completely separate from Government.
It may seem like a good idea to some people, the banning of mephedrone and the continual banning of other drugs, but they would be wrong. A substance of any sort cannot be banned without scientific evidence to support it. You need only look at the drugs that are not only legal but advertised as everyday consumer products… You had a bad day at work? Don’t worry, you can stop by the pub on the way home and drink yourself stupid. Finding it hard to get motivated in the morning? Have a coffee that will get you going, and don’t stress, nothing goes with coffee like a nice chemical filled cigarette. Enjoy these drugs, these drugs, along with the chemical ones that apparently cure all sorts of ailments physical or mental are fine, just don’t take the ones that the Government say are illegal. Because they are fun. And your Government don’t want you having fun, when you could be working, or reproducing.
It reminds me of the last time I took magic mushrooms, which are now as illegal as heroin in the UK, me and my cousin watched Fortress starring Christopher Lambert, then went into a field near his house, and then I woke up covered in highlighter pen which looked really good under his UV light. The story has no point, except that I had a great time. And that is the point. I can legally buy a drug that makes a lot of people violent and angry and incapable of speech… But I can’t buy or consume drugs that make me realize that Fortress starring Christopher Lambert is a great film.
The fact that so many have quit, two of them being the head of the committee, suggests to me that the drug laws in this country are not being made by people who know what they are talking about… That is never going to work, and their knee-jerk reaction to drugs that they seem to be just hearing about is turning millions of children into criminals overnight because the trickledown effect is like a poisoned river. The Government makes something up, the papers print it, and the parents absorb selective parts of it and then demand the drug be banned. Whereas people should be given the chance to educate children correctly on drugs, instead of constant fear mongering. People have always taken drugs, illegal or otherwise, and just because the papers make you believe that drug use is a brand new thing that directly involves your child, doesn’t mean you have to accept it… Read what the people who actually know what they are talking about… Well, if the Government would stop firing them or making them quit then you could maybe have a chance at scientific information.
http://worldnewsvine.com/2010/04/seventh-drug-adviser-quits-in-drugs-row/comment-page-1/
The exodus began months ago when the head of the committee, Professor David Nutt was publicly villainized by the Government and media for claiming that marijuana was illegal for political and not scientific reasons and that you have more chance of dying riding a horse than you do taking ecstasy. He was followed by four of his colleagues and then in the last week two more has jumped ship.
Mephedrone
The drug will apparently be banned by the end of April, and it is certainly curious that the ban comes not from the drug advisers, but from politicians. What can be deduced from this, I guess, would be that either Gordon Brown or his friends regularly take drugs and are in the best position to decide which are safe for us, or there is absolutely no scientific basis for the banning of illegal drugs in the UK. If the advisers would rather quit their job than go along with the Governments decisions, it says a lot for the laws, and the supposed science behind it.
The Liberal Democrat Party home affairs spokesperson Chris Huhne announced that the only way to have science fact introduced, finally, into the drug argument would be to make the ACMD (Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs) completely separate from Government.
It may seem like a good idea to some people, the banning of mephedrone and the continual banning of other drugs, but they would be wrong. A substance of any sort cannot be banned without scientific evidence to support it. You need only look at the drugs that are not only legal but advertised as everyday consumer products… You had a bad day at work? Don’t worry, you can stop by the pub on the way home and drink yourself stupid. Finding it hard to get motivated in the morning? Have a coffee that will get you going, and don’t stress, nothing goes with coffee like a nice chemical filled cigarette. Enjoy these drugs, these drugs, along with the chemical ones that apparently cure all sorts of ailments physical or mental are fine, just don’t take the ones that the Government say are illegal. Because they are fun. And your Government don’t want you having fun, when you could be working, or reproducing.
It reminds me of the last time I took magic mushrooms, which are now as illegal as heroin in the UK, me and my cousin watched Fortress starring Christopher Lambert, then went into a field near his house, and then I woke up covered in highlighter pen which looked really good under his UV light. The story has no point, except that I had a great time. And that is the point. I can legally buy a drug that makes a lot of people violent and angry and incapable of speech… But I can’t buy or consume drugs that make me realize that Fortress starring Christopher Lambert is a great film.
http://worldnewsvine.com/2010/04/seventh-drug-adviser-quits-in-drugs-row/comment-page-1/
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