There are too many vested interests in favour of the absurd status quo. Legalisation would decimate the criminal justice system - at least until they identified another great evil to fight.
This is exactly what happened in America after prohibition was repealed, and drugs became the new menace to keep all the law enforcers busy. You can draw parallels for the army saving us from the red menace, and now from the terrorist menace. It's the politics of the bogey man. We use them on our children and this nasty habit sticks. Nigel. On 1 June 2010 11:08, John Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > OK have read some of these threads now. > > If there was an easy answer to drug use/cultivation/criminality etc then by > now it would have become apparent. All I'd add is that the present system > regarding criminalisation/possession, in fact everything to do with drug use > certainly in the UK, doesn't really work. It will only get worse imho! > > I don't know what the answer is. I know people who have managed their > extra-curricular activities with no negative impact on society at all, and > have witnessed the absolute opposite. One size does not fit all. Ridding the > streets of heroine would be nice. I don't know why it's so hard to find > poppy fields in Afghanistan - they must stick out like a sore thumb in that > arid sandpit! > > > -- blog.mindbrix.co.uk/2010/01/20/zoomable-gallery/ www.concentrichron.com -- Mindbrix -- Dream it, draw it, build it, love it 69 Derby Street Beeston Nottingham NG9 2LG +44 7905 311 352 [email protected] www.mindbrix.co.uk Skype: ntbarber twitter.com/mindbrix _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist and the hardest time in a sailor's day is to watch the sun as it sails away
