I’ve been having a huge discussion with my flat mates about drugs,
which has brought thoughts that I’ve been having for a long while
back to the surface. In my eyes, legalising drugs is the blindingly
obvious path that needs to be taken to be able to target the
problems in our society that lead to drug addiction and the problems
that the illicit-ness of drugs bring with them. There are many huge
problems that we have within society and these are being hidden
behind this barrier and smoke screen that is the prohibition of
drugs!
So here is my main point – these problems involve drugs but drugs
aren’t the problem (they become the problem as people fall into
them). They are the tip of the iceberg, the leaves on the tree.
Legalise all drugs and then the real issues that we have in our
society that lead to drug addiction can then be addressed. Too many
people use the prohibition of drugs to hide away from the tough
reality, someone needs to step up and say the hard statement, make
the hard decision.
As is with the “charity problem” (which I will rant about in
another blog post), any time anyone criticises the prohibition, they
are instantly told they are crazy, being selfish, not thinking of
all the people’s lives who have been ruined etc. etc. etc. But in
fact, it is the act of having this stupid prohibition that is
torturing the population and stopping the treatment of the problems,
not to mention the myriad other negative consequences it brings with
it (huge crime rates, vilification and stigmatisation of drug
addicts, black market driven by demand, leading to extortionate
pricing and a huge profit making business for criminal gangs who
only care about profit ie. No regulations on the drugs. These are to
name but a few).
