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Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom continues to campaign for the total legalisation of all drugs. This is a controversial point of view, but I am hoping that people will pull their heads out of the sand eventually.

Personally, I think that all drugs should definitely be legalised. Yep – crack cocaine, heroin, the lot. I’m not suggesting that everyone should try these drugs, but as Richard Brunstrom points out, PROHIBITION DOES NOT WORK! What we need is an education system that teaches the grave dangers of hard drugs and how to experiment with softer drugs as safely as possible. The fact is that people will always take drugs. So as a nation we need to take responsibility for this. Should we allow the pockets of criminals to be lined with cash from recreational drug users? And should we watch drug addicts disappear into homelessness and further crime simply because their addictions are a crime and therefore they can’t get help? (Anyone ever noticed that alcoholics don’t often end up having to steal to feed their habit? Could this be because their problem is accepted as being within the law and help is more readily available for them?)

Richard Brunstrom says that more than half of recorded crime in the UK is drugs-related. And apparently drug use contributes to some £20 billion of damage to this country every year. So if we had that money to put towards helping people instead of charging them, what a difference that could make to our society’s happiness.

Currently, our country is divided into many cultures. People in just about every culture take drugs on one level or another. Upper class businessmen are known to have heroin addictions as well as working class people. The difference is, they can sustain their habits. What happens is, people from less wealthy backgrounds get hooked on a drug and then find that they can’t pay for their intake. They can’t get help from their immediate society because they would have to admit to a serious crime, so they end up turning to bigger crime in order to support their habits. Eventually, this leads to loss of family, friends and home and their lives become a never-ending cycle of taking the drug and finding the money to pay for it.

There are people in society who have never been part of the drugs culture and have a very narrow view of drug use. This further alienates people with drug problems, because they are treated as sub-citizens. If decent and practical education was introduced, there would be less prejudice and more opportunity for drug users to seek help if they need it.

Drug rehabilitation centres are being closed down right, left and centre due to lack of funding. The amount of money this country could save if it stopped persecuting recreational users and addicts would pay for successful rehabilitation programmes.

I wish this government would give itself a kick up the arse and admit that our country’s drugs policies are archaic and it’s time we set and example rather than jumping on the back of US legislation, which we all know is totally corrupt anyway.

Good on you Mr Brunstrom. I salute you!

Related articles:

T&L Drug Legalization – American website, claiming that all drugs are a major threat to the world.

Legalise Drugs.co.uk – Someone talking sense – just because you know that drugs should be legalised, this does not necessarily mean you support drug-taking.

Eddie Elison’s Drug Legalisation Site

Gargaro.com – Against drug legalization.

Filed under: Legal Highs News on April 15th, 2008