Ban on mephedrone "a failure".

[Magilla]

I'm sat here chuckling, drinking my Pinot Grigio. I can have a few more bottles now I know it's not a drug.

 

Ahhh, but if it's not a drug there's no way it can possibly get you intoxicated.

 

Then you might not want to

[Bloomdido]

Ahhh, but if it's not a drug there's no way it can possibly get you intoxicated.

 

Then you might not want to

 

Oh. better go to bed with a decent book then.

[spindrift]

A new survey suggests that clubbers are still taking the drug mephedrone, nearly a year after its UK ban.

 

A poll for the dance music magazine Mixmag, seen by BBC Radio 5 Live, found one in four of those questioned had taken the drug in the last month.

 

33% said the ban has had no effect on their use while another 10% said they have increased the amount they take since it was made illegal in April 2010.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12389389

 

So, the ban:

 

1/

 

Seems to have driven people to use other, more dangerous drugs

 

2/

 

Does not seem to have impacted usage levels

 

3/

 

The ban has doubled the price, and because the only sources are illegal dealers, users will be offered other drugs that may be more harmful.

 

 

So, what was the point?

[discodown]

So, what was the point?

To make it look like something is being done. Actually all its done is make the whole situation worse to nobodies benefit

[harvey19]

A new survey suggests that clubbers are still taking the drug mephedrone, nearly a year after its UK ban.

 

A poll for the dance music magazine Mixmag, seen by BBC Radio 5 Live, found one in four of those questioned had taken the drug in the last month.

 

33% said the ban has had no effect on their use while another 10% said they have increased the amount they take since it was made illegal in April 2010.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12389389

 

So, the ban:

 

1/

 

Seems to have driven people to use other, more dangerous drugs

 

2/

 

Does not seem to have impacted usage levels

 

3/

 

The ban has doubled the price, and because the only sources are illegal dealers, users will be offered other drugs that may be more harmful.

 

 

So, what was the point?

 

If you feel so strongly about this matter as it appears from your posts I suggest you bring these matters to the attention of your MP who is in a position to do something about it.

[spindrift]

If you feel so strongly about this matter as it appears from your posts I suggest you bring these matters to the attention of your MP who is in a position to do something about it.

 

Guffaw.

 

The Government appointed experts to advise them on drugs policy.

 

The experts explained that ecstasy is safer than alcohol.

 

The government sacked the experts and appointed a rabidly anti-drugs psycho Christian who believed homosexuals were more likely to be paedophiles.

 

It's naive to believe government policy on drugs isn't:

 

1/

 

Inextricably tied to America's absurd War On Drugs and

 

2/

 

Informed by tabloid rubbish and middle-England hysteria

[harvey19]

Guffaw.

 

The Government appointed experts to advise them on drugs policy.

 

The experts explained that ecstasy is safer than alcohol.

 

The government sacked the experts and appointed a rabidly anti-drugs psycho Christian who believed homosexuals were more likely to be paedophiles.

 

It's naive to believe government policy on drugs isn't:

 

1/

 

Inextricably tied to America's absurd War On Drugs and

 

2/

 

Informed by tabloid rubbish and middle-England hysteria

But otherwise you have no realistic chance of changing anything.

[spindrift]

Actually though, you have a point harvey, The Green Party are the only ones talking sense:

 

UK approach to drugs has been "an epic failure"

 

Green MP Caroline Lucas, who spoke at a Westminster Hall debate on government drugs policy today, said:

"The UK's approach to dealing with drugs, based on criminalisation rather than harm reduction, has been an epic failure. In England and Wales alone, the economic costs of Class A drugs (dealing with related crime and demands on the NHS, for example) are estimated at more than £15.4 billion per year - and over half of the 85,000 people in prison are thought to have serious drug problems. Much of our current approach is based on kneejerk moral judgements about drug use and drug users - rather than on what actually works to reduce harm.

 

 

 

http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2010-12-16-decriminalisation-drug-possession.html