Il leader verde Zack Polanski sostiene la legalizzazione di tutti i farmaci
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20e20rzje2o
di F0urLeafCl0ver
Il leader verde Zack Polanski sostiene la legalizzazione di tutti i farmaci
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20e20rzje2o
di F0urLeafCl0ver
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The leader of the Green Party says he wants to legalise all drugs, calling for an approach “led by public health experts, not politicians”.
Speaking to BBC South East ahead of his party conference, Zack Polanski said he agreed with a Kent Green councillor, who earlier this year called for the legalisation of all drugs, including class A drugs like heroin and crack cocaine.
Polanski said “the war on drugs has absolutely failed, and ultimately we need to be having a public health approach”.
Now you see, the greens get 1 or 2 weeks of positive news then they do something like this.. Sigh
Legalise them, then tax them. Will go some way at filling the fiscal black hole Reeves keeps talking about.
Bizarre… That’s not a vote winner why say that now?
Drug prohibition is clearly failing and addiction should definitely be treated as a public health, rather than criminal issue.
People are going to pretend that he’s advocating heroin use, but the aim should be to reduce the damage that drugs are able to do to society with things like rehabilitation and safe injection sites rather than just throwing people in prison where addictions can fester.
He’s a nutjob.
(I believe he had a scam business where he persuaded women he could make their breasts larger through hypnosis. For a fee of course).
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The greens can’t keep how absolutely fucking mental they are under wraps for too long at a time.
We have the data – this leads to way less deaths and abuse
Pointless discussion when you’ll get nowhere near power. I’m starting my own political party and we plan to give everybody 10 million quid so who cares about this
hard to think of a single negative with that.
taxation, check.
awareness, check.
quality, check.
decimation of criminal funds. big check.
would global criminal enterprises like the cartel even exist if they lost drug income?
Well, he seems to be quite good. Everything that I’ve read about him over the past few months has been excellent.
Would this include reversing the Labour phased criminalisation of tobacco?
Edit: I don’t know why I’m getting down voted. Banning tobacco getting sold to progressively more and more people will push them onto the black market,(people under 18 smoke now, these people will never be able to legally buy tobacco) which public health types think is bad for all drugs except seemingly tobacco
As a Brit in Canada I’m 100% on board with legalized and taxed cannabis and very open to the idea of legalizing/decriminalizing other drugs in future. It does seem like a terrible politics to even say the words “all drugs” out loud though.
*Legalise* or *decriminalise for possession* – that’s a VERY key difference.
Many European countries he and indeed other people are citing, have done the latter.
Total legalisation means you could set up shop selling heroin or crack, which I’m sure most people would think is a step too far.
I’m sure that’s not what he’s suggesting, but it’s important to choose your wording carefully on such massive policy changes.
Personally I’m all for it, but I think the far far more worrying thing is his ambition to remove the UK from NATO. Even Corbyn’s manifestos, contrary to popular belief, didn’t include that, and again despite popular belief they did include the renewal of Trident.
Given his reasoning for wanting to leave is he doesn’t want the UK to be “hock to Donald Trump” this is doubly stupid because a) that’s not what NATO is, at all, and b) Trump will be gone before the next GE anyway.
This might work in places like Portugal. But British do things to excess. Look at booze. So much harm related to it.
Cannabis is a good argument for legalisation or something similar.
Heroin, Coke, Crack, Spice etc though….they steal the soul of its users. Go to ANY prison and you’ll see what people are willing to do for their next hit. Trading food away, clothes and their own bodies. They should never be legalised here.
Great idea IMO. Long overdue.
The war on drugs is a lost cause.
I see the enlightened centrists of Reddit, who are disappointed in their man Keir, are wanting the Greens to be … More centrist?
Wonderful.
Fuck me. The greens really want to play in the major League this time around. Great, more actually viable voices is good.
Good.
Legalise all drugs, ban all religion. Let’s take a science based progressive approach and try to be a better society.
Weed legalization worked great here in Canada, def would recommend
Objectively this is the best option. It will be impossible to get rid of all drug trade so you might as well make it legal and subject to legislation and trading laws. As long as money is also being put into creating safe areas for drug use too.
The article is terrible and doesn’t actually quote him. Does he want to legalise or decriminalise, very different approaches. Decriminalisation is incredibly important, legalisation probably needs targeting.
It’s a sensible policy, which means it’ll never happen in the UK
Well looks like the Greens will be reddit’s go-to for the next 4 years then.
“Yah I’m fiscally conservative but socially liberal yah” normally just means “Keep taxes low but legalise drugs and also don’t be racist.”
Sounds good to me.