Jock's Place - "Ecstasy safer than aspirin" - Comments

Oh yeah - now he's at the

Jock — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:29:09 +0000

Oh yeah - now he's at the Home Office maybe now's the time for dredging up that student paper article again! "Can't remember" writing it...yeah, whatever!

Wouldn't it be ironic...

Jock — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:27:56 +0000

...that whilst being bitterly disappointed that he lost the leadership, by putting him at the Home Office brief he might yet succeed in alienating me from the party more...:) He should have been left with a brief that involved economics somehow - he's fighting a Tory target seat. Of course he's going to be conventional at the Home Office portfolio!

I wish he would, but he

Jonny Wright — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:22:35 +0000

I wish he would, but he won't. Christ Huhne's attitude to drugs is depressingly conventional!

"Ecstasy safer than aspirin"

Jock — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:07:30 +0000

Or at least it might be if we didn't have to buy it from backstreet chemists with as much skill and customer concern as a Chinese-American toy manufacturer:

The legalisation of all drugs is "inevitable", according to the Chief Constable of North Wales.

Richard Brunstrom, who has campaigned for drugs like heroin to be made legal, says he believes the move towards decriminalisation is "10 years away."
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"I think that the legalisation and subsequent regulation of proscribed drugs is now inevitable, and I think it's ten years away, not ten months away." (I'd prefer the latter of course!)

He went on: "It has already happened in for instance Portugal, a full member of the European Union, decriminalised under the existing international treaties.
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"We're still causing something like £20bn worth of damage to our society every year," he said.

"More than half of all recorded crime is caused by people feeding a drugs habit.

"The government wants evidence-based policy; the evidence is very clear that prohibition doesn't work, it can't work, an enforcement-led strategy is making things worse, not better."

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"Ecstasy is a remarkably safe substance - it's far safer than aspirin," he said.

"If you look at the government's own research into deaths you'll find that ecstasy, by comparison to many other substances - legal and illegal - it is comparably a safe substance."

Come on Chris Huhne, support this guy please!