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Man has taken drugs for centuries, and in many different forms, and quite probably always will, being the curious, pleasure seeking mammals that we are. I think it’s simply in our make up.

Taking drugs is a total lottery. Some people take them in moderation with little to no harm done (no more than inhaling someone else’s fag or car fumes), others have addictive personalities/personality disorders/demons/need a crutch/or are just too dumb / hedonistic to appreciate the consequences, and don’t know when to say enough is enough.

The other problem, of course, is the people who manufacture many of the grade A’s in illegal drug labs, with no rules applied to ensure purity and dosage, and anything gets thrown in to make s quick buck, and of course, not forgetting the other people, namely drug barons, who require huge amounts of the stuff to make their millions, and are willing to exploit / kill anyone and everyone to get them.

Demonising certain ‘dangerous’ drugs (whilst, let’s please not forget, their fellow ‘dangerous drugs such alcohol and cigarettes are allowed – and the Government generates considerable revenue from) simply drives them further underground, makes them all the more mysterious and tempting to the naive and is therefore a self defeating activity, rather like all those post Christmas diets we ‘have to’ go on….

it appears since the apparent temptation of the alleged Adam by the alleged Eve, we give in to temptation. As soon as we are told/tell ourselves we mustn’t do something as it’s bad….don’t eat that cake….must have some cake…. it seems as if we are programmed to do it…!

Therefore, although I agree that illegal drugs ( and I feel I must make the definition here, as we all are aware, surely, that ‘legal’ drugs kill many 1000′s each year and cause untold misery, and, may I add, are relatively accessible to children if they really want to try them) should come with health warnings, and we as a society should do everything we can to protect people from sliding down the slippery slope of excess, to say that making – and keeping them – illegal, is actually doing anything constructive, is rather like saying that those awful warnings on the side of fag packets are working.

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Tosh Innit!

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I’m afraid you’re talking absolute tripe. It is perfectly legal to take all manner of drugs without a prescription, many of which can be found in supermarkets and pharmacies across the island.

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I don’t have a chip on my shoulder about religion, I’d just prefer it if it didn’t exist.

Whether you like it or not most of these moral crusaders are religious, I’d suggest you’re in quite a small minority of religious people who are open minded re drugs.

I wonder what the loons up at La Villiaze think about it?

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Oh by the way, I noticed you use religious language in your comment. Now I know you have a chip on your shoulder about religion but don’t stereotype and presume all religious people have closed minds. I am religious and have an open mind on the drugs issue. I don’t like the idea of people getting stoned but the reality is they do, and regulating / taxing cannabis (for example) would take money out of the hands of criminals and put it into the public purse – money that could then be spent on education and treatment….in a similar way to tobacco.

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Your points make perfect sense of course, to anyone who has an open mind and experience in these matters.

However, to the ignorant Daily Mail readers you will be condemned as a satanic force, one who advocates our children sticking needles in their arms and smoking crack pipes 24/7.

The fact that various states/countries around the world are now recognising the futility of the “war on drugs” means nothing to these moral crusaders, drugs are wrong, the work of the devil, and woe betide anyone who is tempted by their evil effects (unless of course they come in packets of 20 or bottles marked “wine” or “gin” etc, in which case they must be less harmful than the evil drugs because they are legal).

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