[Politics] Recreational drugs? New plans from Pritti Patel

[Herr Tubthumper]

I was just thinking, the biggest issue facing the UK right now is a bit of weed and bugle. I’m glad the government has got its priorities in order.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

She’s off the rails.

Snortle

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Urge the Tories to tackle poverty, bad employers or clamp-down on tax-dodging, and they say "No, that's State interference in people's lives, and an erosion of liberty. It's not the government's role."

Yet they're always happy for the State to intervene and punish people on 'moral' or 'lifestyle' issues, or when it will garner the applause of Daily Mail readers.

I'm not defending drug users, I hasten to add, but I do view this as another example of Tory hypocrisy over the perennial fine line between State intervention vs individual liberty - they're happy for the State to intervene against people they don't like.

This, in spades.

 

[Swansman]

Cannabis = not really that much of a problem
Cocaine = you might not want a population of cocaine addicts

None of them will really be stopped through harsher penalties and whatnot, they'll still be around (particularly cannabis as you can grow it pretty much anywhere), but the latter of these drugs you can stop/decrease through stopping it being brought in to your country... I'd imagine it would be a lot more effective to put resources into doing that rather than chasing random people at night clubs etc.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

What if you're not middle class?

Community order, where you have to run a county lines team free of charge for 12 months


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[atfc village]

Since giving up the cigs ,i can't believe how much weed is about . The sense of smell returning i reckon i smell it at least 10 times a day.

 

[studio150]

Our wilfully ignorant, punishment addicted Home Office are determined to continue Nixon’s classist, racist war on people thinly disguised as a war on drugs. After decades of its execution, Britain is now Europe’s number one nation for drug deaths. And no one has written the soundtrack? They have now. “Nixon’s Rules.” Graham Parker.