The Drug War isn’t just an American thing. It’s an International, first-third world thing too. And just like it is in the states, it’s by all accounts a colossal failure all over the world.
The United Kingdom is the latest nation (following in Uruguay and even Mexico’s footsteps: to concede its fight against drugs is a lost cause, and its liberal party has begun a movement to change the nation’s fallible drug policies.
Government officials across the world see what Colorado and Washington just did (and with litlte knowledge beyond “legalization”), justifiably feel like they have the proof and model to make their own power moves with.
Clearly, the UK’s proposal goes way beyond weed. Taking heroin junkies and “club drug addicts” off the streets and putting them into rehab facilities may seem like a no-brainer, but without the right policy and infrastructure in place, it’s a complete shit show (see: our prison system).
Likewise, let’s not get too excited for our forefather’s fight for free weed–Theresa May and her conservative honkies will fight this proposed legislation with all the tea and biscuits they’ve got.
BRON : http://www.marijuana.com/news/2013/1...nd-club-drugs/
The United Kingdom is the latest nation (following in Uruguay and even Mexico’s footsteps: to concede its fight against drugs is a lost cause, and its liberal party has begun a movement to change the nation’s fallible drug policies.
Cannabis and some “club drugs” could be legalised in a Home Office shake-up of drugs policy proposed by Liberal Democrat ministers.
In a move that threatens a clash with Theresa May, the home secretary, the Lib Dem ministers want a dramatic relaxation of the law after concluding that the government is losing the war on illegal substances.
A review ordered by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, and due to be published before Christmas, isexpected to suggest Britain could benefit from emulating two American states where the use of recreational cannabis is legal.
The Home Office report is also expected to call for the introduction of heroin “shooting galleries” where hardcore addicts are given the drug on prescription in an attempt to reduce crime; and a new approach to club drugs. [Sunday Times UK]
The rest of the details are murky (you’ve got to live over there to keep reading this piece), but the bottom line mirrors the universal drug fight’s motto: legalize it, treat it, and watch usage recede.In a move that threatens a clash with Theresa May, the home secretary, the Lib Dem ministers want a dramatic relaxation of the law after concluding that the government is losing the war on illegal substances.
A review ordered by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, and due to be published before Christmas, isexpected to suggest Britain could benefit from emulating two American states where the use of recreational cannabis is legal.
The Home Office report is also expected to call for the introduction of heroin “shooting galleries” where hardcore addicts are given the drug on prescription in an attempt to reduce crime; and a new approach to club drugs. [Sunday Times UK]
Government officials across the world see what Colorado and Washington just did (and with litlte knowledge beyond “legalization”), justifiably feel like they have the proof and model to make their own power moves with.
Clearly, the UK’s proposal goes way beyond weed. Taking heroin junkies and “club drug addicts” off the streets and putting them into rehab facilities may seem like a no-brainer, but without the right policy and infrastructure in place, it’s a complete shit show (see: our prison system).
Likewise, let’s not get too excited for our forefather’s fight for free weed–Theresa May and her conservative honkies will fight this proposed legislation with all the tea and biscuits they’ve got.
BRON : http://www.marijuana.com/news/2013/1...nd-club-drugs/
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