Tory hypocrites on booze and bongs...

Jock — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:15:16 +0000

ConservativeHome has done some polling on IDS's recommendations in his social justice report.

In it there's a stark hypocrisy - while 75% agree with the idea of a stricter classification of cannabis, 59%, no doubt out of self interest, disagree with the idea of putting extra money on booze taxes to pay for addiction treatments.

Let's get this right, the drug which creates the most dependency in Britain bar none is alcohol. Apart from tobacco the drug that causes the most deaths in Britain is alcohol. Cannabis, despite so many regular users, does not even register on the deaths list so far as I am aware. Alcohol consistently ranks well ahead of both cannabis and LSD and ecstasy in studies of the overall social damage it causes. The most common "gateway drug" to harder drugs is alcohol. The drug most commonly associated with mental illness episodes is...yes, alcohol.

Still, I suppose it tastes nice some of the time, when you can remember it anyway. And 8 million problem drinkers cannot be wrong can they? I wonder how many of them are in the grassroots Tory party?

They need to read Transform's report on how to regulate and reduce drug use without prohibition. Of course the Tories are not the only ones spinning the prohibition lies. But with a toking leader you'd have thought at least the Tories would be willing to have a mature discussion about it. Remind me why anyone with a libertarian bone in their body supports this shower?

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