wakeytom
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Please sign there are many reasons that this should be looked in:
https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/45969
https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/45969
am i missing something(honest question).
Caroline Lucas is asking for the government to analyse whether current policy is cost effective and working.
Isnt this something government departments,police and agencies do as a matter of course anyway,and report back to each other and debate how current policy can be improved.
Seems a rather pointless exercise.
So which ones do you want to legalise?
am i missing something(honest question).
Caroline Lucas is asking for the government to analyse whether current policy is cost effective and working.
Isnt this something government departments,police and agencies do as a matter of course anyway,and report back to each other and debate how current policy can be improved.
Seems a rather pointless exercise.
am i missing something(honest question).
Caroline Lucas is asking for the government to analyse whether current policy is cost effective and working.
Isnt this something government departments,police and agencies do as a matter of course anyway,and report back to each other and debate how current policy can be improved.
Seems a rather pointless exercise.
As pointless as pissing billions of pounds down a black hole globally with little or no perceivable benefit?
In some ways I actually agree with you, what happened when the Government's own drug Tzar made noises around legalisation a few years ago. They sacked him. The problem here is that it isn't a cost/benefit thing, it's a political thing.
Having said that, I signed it ages ago. Can't do any harm to have a look, can it?
I don't think anybody thinks legalisation of all drugs is a solution. Being able to buy heroin or crack cocaine from behind the counter would be barmy from anyone's perspective.
Decriminalisation however seems to be a no brainer. Prohibition is clearly no deterrent so locking up a drug addict is counter productive, as is giving a reveller a criminal record for having a bit of cannabis or any other soft drug. Police just shouldn't be wasting their time and money on catching and criminalising drug users. It's these kind of archaic laws that need to be reviewed.
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I don't think anybody thinks legalisation of all drugs is a solution. Being able to buy heroin or crack cocaine from behind the counter would be barmy from anyone's perspective.
Decriminalisation however seems to be a no brainer. Prohibition is clearly no deterrent so locking up a drug addict is counter productive, as is giving a reveller a criminal record for having a bit of cannabis or any other soft drug. Police just shouldn't be wasting their time and money on catching and criminalising drug users. It's these kind of archaic laws that need to be reviewed.
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As pointless as pissing billions of pounds down a black hole globally with little or no perceivable benefit?
In some ways I actually agree with you, what happened when the Government's own drug Tzar made noises around legalisation a few years ago. They sacked him. The problem here is that it isn't a cost/benefit thing, it's a political thing.
Having said that, I signed it ages ago. Can't do any harm to have a look, can it?
as i said i thought government,police and the relevant agencies look at this constantly,what makes this petition so different?
not trying to start an argument i genuinely seem to missing the point.....its been a long weekend.
I think the problem is that even if the institutions involved do review this policy periodically, the reasons behind it are entrenched in politics rather than what's best for the taxpayer and how best we deal with the demand for drugs, which isn't going anywhere any time soon.
My hunch - if we have this review, is it will conclude categorically that in order make best use of our tax dollar we need to have a radical rethink about the law, how addicts are treated, what the police spend their time on, means of distribution but nothing will happen because it's not an easy message to sell to the average punter.
However, that does not change my mind that to have an indpendent review based in hard fact rather than opinion can only be a good thing.