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About Contact Links Caveat The DR Manifesto...Manifesto I'm not standing for office. I'd be a shite politician, partly because I'm unpleasantly honest and partly because I hate wearing suits... If I wasn't, this is what I'd be campaigning on... (26 Feb 2007) 'Please let my Mother live!'...Environment There's only one way to ensure our survival as a species - live sustainably. It's easy! Nuclear Idiocy (15 January 2007) Sustainability (16 October 2006) Global Warming (15 October 2006) Housing Shortage (15 October 2006) Cycle Paths (11 October 2006) Tourism (10 October 2006) Main Topics...Make Drugs Legal Prohibition doesn't work, duh! It gives too much money to organised crime... Updated: Letter to the Telegraph 'Alcohol and Tobacco are the gateway drugs - if there is such a thing...' (Upd: 11 Mar 2006) Errant Fathers How can fathers be expected to 'take responsibility' for their kids when the law always presumes in favour of the mother? I got a reply - and here's my reply to that Welfare and Compensation Culture = No Legal Responsibility (Upd: 11 Mar 2007) A New Political System A solution for: Party Funding, Reform of The House Of Lords, and it incidentally makes the whole voting process far more democratic... (Upd: 25 Feb 2007) Principles My principles of government. (Upd: 25 Feb 2007) Road Pricing Tony Blair and the entire Labour Government are cretins... Road pricing has to be the most hare-brained scheme ever - devised by the evil cretinous muppets from hell - the Politicians... (19 Feb 2007) Old People Old folks have no respect in our culture. That is so wrong!... (18 Feb 2007) Poverty How do we define poverty? How do we reduce it? Well, not taxing the poor would help... (18 Feb 2007) Europe The EU is a criminal organisation intent on conquest... (Upd: 30 January 2007) Cash for Honours Why would anyone give money to a political party?.. (16 January 2006) Social Security A fresh approach to the problem of how to provide social security... (15 January 2006) David Cameron David Cameron and the Conservative Party... (12 December 2006) Random Rants Some random musings... (12 November 2006) Prisons If prisoners are 'paying their debt to society' - why is is so damn expensive to keep them? (21 October 2006) Tax Taxes kill businesses and people. (16 October 2006) Free Speech Some peoples brains work overtime trying to figure out how to turn opinions into insults... (14 October 2006) Health Why are tax-payers footing the bill for sex-change operations and IVF? (13 October 2006) Law British law is stupidly complex and inefficient. You'd never design a system like that... (13 October 2006) Education Educators need to aim higher, and politicians need to butt-out. (12 October 2006) Security It was a no-brainer that invading Iraq with Bush would cause more grievances than it solved. When has starting a war ever brought peace? (8 October 2006) |
11 Mar 2007 This was prompted by the editorial comment in the Telegraph on 9th March 2007: I thought I'd picked up The Mirror by mistake... Gateway Drugs - Letter To The Daily TelegraphDear Sir, The two most dangerous drugs in existence are alcohol and tobacco. These are recorded as directly causing or contributing to the death of millions each year worldwide. The number of people dying from illicit drugs is miniscule in comparison. Your statement that 'a glass or two of Chilean red' is 'benign', whereas a joint will 'all to often' lead to 'harder drugs and addiction' is a facile misrepresentation of the truth. People die every day in the UK from alcohol overdose. No one has ever been recorded as having died from a cannabis overdose. It is demonstrably less harmful, by any measure of toxicity, than red wine. The claim that cannabis is a 'gateway drug' is now virtually the sole reason used to justify it's criminalisation, but these claims are not borne out by research: "For the overwhelming majority of marijuana smokers, pot is clearly a 'terminus' rather than a gateway.". Indeed, whether any drug acts as 'gateway' to others is debatable. References: While it may be a fact that 70% of crime is fuelled by drugs, this is not because drugs cause crime by their very nature. On the contrary, drugs are just a commodity. People commit crimes for cars, clothes and cash but we don't blame those commodities for the crime itself. The crimewave of 1920's America is widely accepted to have been caused by the prohibition laws. People didn't stop drinking, they just had to buy their booze from criminals instead, making the criminals rich. We have exactly the same situation now with drugs. Drugs don't cause crime - prohibition does. On visiting the editorial on their website (link at top), I found plenty of comments more or less agreeing with my stance... Whoever wrote the article was off the wall... CommentsThis is a sporadically moderated blog. I am not responsible for anything below! There are no comments for this page. To add your own comments, click here to login or register |
