Quoting Lyndie: I work with people who use drugs, 'soft' and 'hard'! I think the thing to consider is that what works in one country doesn't necessarily work in another country, becuase it depends on the cultural 'mentality' of the people. For example. England has just changed the laws for how long people can drink alcohol. There is this crazy idea that we can be like a kind of 'French' cafe society. This just aint gonna happen. It is absolutely terrible in all the big cities in england, with people drinking themselves into oblivion every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. The violence, the injuries the number of police who sit outside the pubs and clubs when they close are amazing. You can see young girls lying in the street in pools of vomit and urine. It is disgusting.
The same with drugs. It is no longer a criminal offence to be in possession of cannabis, providing it is a small amount and for 'personal use' - This has done nothing to prevent people using heroin crack cocaine and the new drug from America called crystal meth!
Many people don't realise also that cannabis use can cause 'phychosis' in some vulnerable people. I work with 3 men who are now phychotic from cannabis use. They all hear voices, their lives are ruined and they are completely mad, doomed forever to take prescription medications just so they can be 10% 'normal'. And this through cannabis. Young people who smoke cannabis 12/13 years old, are then prey to the drug dealers who will happily give them free heroin and crack to get them addicted and then they are doomed to alife of crime to pay for it.
i work with a guy who spends £1,000 per day on crack cocaine. He is responsible him along for up to £50,000 PER WEEK of crime - yes those figures are correct! That is just one person! I could go on all night about this!
Legalising some drugs may work in some countries, but there is no evidence that the same thing would work in, for example England - my own view is that it would not!
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