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17/09/2009, 2:29 AM 9u8y76f5drex Joined on 17/09/2009 Posts 1 Re: Axminster: Children caught with cannabis at school > [PC Darren Herridge] said: "It's a slippery slope. In my experience [use of > cannabis] can lead people to start experimenting with Class A drugs." Well, Darren, in my experience the use of orange juice can lead to experimentation with class A drugs. Did you know that 100% of heroin addicts started by taking milk? The gateway theory is utter BS, but prohibitionists continue to trot it out at any opportunity they get. If the government and people of the UK want to control drugs they all have to be legalised. A black market is not controllable. What we have now is equivalent to the speakeasys, bath tub gin and Mafia problems the USA had in the 20s and 30s when they banned booze. Prohibition didn't work then, and it doesn't work now.    Report

31/10/2009, 7:56 PM Ian Woolger Joined on 09/09/2008 Budleigh Salterton Posts 187 Re: Axminster: Children caught with cannabis at school One wonders how "PC Herridge" has any "experience of drugs"? I didn,t think you would be able to join the Police force if you had been a drug user!! What he means is "according to something I was told, the use of cannabis leads to people experimenting with Class A drugs"... Well sorry to say PC, in my 48 years on the planet, I have come across people from many walks of life who "do drugs".....The top two, being Alcohol and Cigarettes, both of which do far more damage than cannabis or ecstasy for example, destroy far more lives and ruin far more marriages and relationships than illegal drugs, yet are tolerated because the government makes millions in revenue on their licensed sale. Personally, I feel that it is time for a nationwide "drug amnesty", allowing every single person who classes themselves as an "addict" to register and be offered their "drug of choice" or "treatment" by the state. Thus totally negating the need for addicts to steal from innocent people to fund their addiction and wiping out the market for illegal drugs. With no market for illegal drugs, the criminals that sell them would be denied a livelihood and thus cease their dealing. The controlled drugs market, would mean only pure unadulterated drugs would be available and because addicts would have to register, they would be safe in the knowledge that the drugs were not going to "new" customers. People will take drugs of some sort whatever the law says, whether they are state sanctioned as Alcohol or Illegal, as in the case of cannabis. It seems to me that millions and millions of pounds are wasted on trying to fight drug related crime, catch dealers and close down supply networks, with seemingly little or no effect on slowing the trade, controlled legalisation could be the best answer. In my opinion of course!   It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases    Report

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