@pred1 388767 wrote:
Its all bollocks…
People are always going to take drugs legal or not!
I party with teachers, lawyers, even doctors ffs and they are at just like the rest of us
you can paint it how you want but the goverment are the ones making more dangerous to take drugs every day!
yes, and this is a government where some people used to be ravers – and so they know how to put the pressure on the middle class users who have professional careers. Although TBH I think the mephedrone ban was to “punish” greedy youths the Govt have made it clear they are still not even prepared to tolerate drug use by older or “middle class” people.
A lot of the politicians are our generation and unfortunately they clearly have been swayed more by the negative side of drugs (any pro-drug libertarians in either the Tory or Lib Dem party have been sidelined and some actually removed from both parties).
Cameron is very cagey about his youth, and whilst in the USA Barack Obama admitted to youthful drug use after an initial defiant stance he had to shamefacedly say it was a “mistake” – even though it obviously didn’t stop him passing his uni exams and becoming a lawyer and the first black president!
Then there’s still the issue of EU and international agreements the UK is signed up to..
For as long as drugs remain illegal and not tolerated by normal society, all it takes is for one person to make a snide call or pass on info to a professional standards body or an authority – of course very unlikely to be a random as they would need to get into the circle of friends of the user but friendships and relationships come and go so no one can be trusted in a competitive ruthless world.
A youth aged 12-25 or so is tolerated a certain amount of “youthful indiscretions”, even the use of drugs but once people get older they are supposed to have “grown out of it”.
Normal folk will say a teacher on drugs is a bad example to kids (whether or not this is true), a drug-friendly lawyer will try and get junkies less penalties or is liable to corrupt influences from the criminal community and there are already known incidents of drug-using healthcare staff doing everything from giving poor quality care to giving deliberate (and fatal) opiate overdoses to patients!
If I’d lived a “normal” life and got married and had kids in my mid 20s but was also partying, the slightest problem with the relationship could cost me access to the kids if my partner says “drug use is an issue” – this has happened to a fair few people (particularly men) I know – and they either have calmed down and chosen family or split up when both sides are stubborn.
