Comments on: Drug Policy is Determined by Politics, Not Evidence /region/europe/drug-policy-is-determined-by-politics-not-evidence-30124/ Fact-based, well-reasoned perspectives from around the world Sun, 19 Apr 2015 16:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: dave /region/europe/drug-policy-is-determined-by-politics-not-evidence-30124/#comment-32280 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:27:33 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50348#comment-32280 Well said Jayelle..After David Nut was fired, 6 others quit in protest at how unjust it was. The UK has gone downhill badly, we had the most liberal drugs in the world at one point, that all changed in 1978 and has gotten worse and worse since.

They should decriminalise drugs, I dont think it should be legal to make E, or amphetamine in your home and sell it online, as if done wrong it can cause serious problems, leave that to people with labs and who know what they are doing, but the possession and taking of substances should have no criminality at all. Growing cannabis for personal use should also be allowed imo.

Im unsure what I feel about growing it for production, I mean there is medical grade high CBD strains and high thc pleasure strains, someone needs to supply it, this was the grey area regarding dutch law, the coffe shops were legal but their supply was not properly written into law. (I don’t knwo if it is now). I think anyone with a permit should be allowed to grow it for drug production for commercial purposes. There would need to be some guidelines and rules regarding what counts as personal use, and what is commerical production and how much you can grow for each etc.

All the other drugs I think should be allowed via prescriptions,and/.Or maybe some if not all can be purchased from the chemists/pharmacy.

I mean, saying “okay, we wont prosecute you for taking it or possesing it” is not enough, that still leaves production in the criminals hands, there needs to be some quality assurance in there somewhere. The users need to be getting doses that are constant, the same as they currently do with morphine and heroin on prescription here. 5mg tablets, or injection ampules are always 5mg and 5mg/1ml respectivley..The same needs to be said for other drugs. Although that can wait I guess, the most important thing currently is to stop prosecutiing users.

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By: Jayelle Farmer /region/europe/drug-policy-is-determined-by-politics-not-evidence-30124/#comment-32264 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:06:53 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=50348#comment-32264 There has been a lot of behind-the-scenes dishonesty down the years and UK campaigners are sick to death of the deceitful politics of prohibition. Gov buried the Keele Report until after cannabis was rescheduled back to Class B from Class C of the MoDA because the results of the Report didn’t match-up to gov expectancy. they sacked David Nutt because he would not compromise on his “evidence first” convictions. One could write a book about it, but this article helps along the way. Thank you, Kieran for publishing your article.

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