The Green Party wants to decriminalise personal possession of drugs. #GreenParty #Politics #BBCNews
your policy is still legalized drugs your co-leader Carl Adena said we want to see a legalized regulated system for drugs so I’m asking you to explain what would that mean for someone who’s not an addict but says I want to take some cocaine tonight I’d like to smoke some cannabis I’d like to take some ketamin to a music festival are they legal or are they illegal well that will depend on what the IND independent commission that we want to set up establishes because it’s got to be an evidence-based decision that is made we are making the point thatal for So-Cal softer drugs that the police spending lots of time pursuing individuals for possession is not necessarily the best use of police time compared to all the work that the criminal gangs profit from that situation so there needs to be an evidence-based approach on this issue
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Legality will not change current levels of consumption. Those non addicts will still snort if they want to.
Maybe the best of a bad bunch!
Gotta love the Conservative way of thinking: making drugs legal would create more drug users. If someone wants to try it, they’ll do it anyways. Make it safe and regulated (as well as taxed) alongside educating on negative effects & providing resources for addicts. Humans have been getting a buzz off of anything they could find since the beginning, so might as well accept it as fact and treat it just like we would any other luxury/vice. Regulation is a stronger force than outlawing something. Look to prohibition in America and how that actually did nothing to stop our drinking problem and compare that to modern legislation that makes it annoying to buy alcohol, but ultimately safer for the buyer.
Ketamine?😮🙄🇬🇧🇬🇧♥️🌈
Portugal did the same and their drug addiction rates dropped massively
it was a huge success there and will be here
But what will all the Albanians do?
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Portugal did it and the stats look good. Do we not like to talk about statistics, conservatives? Of course then that's one less group of people for you to demonize and hate.
lol, what time do coppers spend trying to catch simple possession charges?
The system is broken as it is, legalise and regulate
Only way to get the votes😅 appeal to the druggies cause you have to be on drugs to vote green
Thirteen years as a street cop in the 1970s and ‘80s and I never arrested anyone for possession of personal use amounts of drugs.
I use cannabis and I didn’t want to be a hypocrite.
Western decriminalisation of drugs is just another example of decadence, that will lead to fall of their civilization.
Well said Green Party.
Green Party has always been it s own worst enemy…
We've all seen decriminalisation of cannabis in other countries, and everything still works and is still functioning. But that has also deprived gangsters of some easy income.
No idea why we're stuck in some 1950's mindset over here.
Would be easier and quicker to buy at supermarket rather than calling “the guy” at 3am.
I've voted Labour all my life but now I'm voting green
Good
Europe is sinking by drugs overuse drugs legitimation human trafficking and rapid increase of religion change
Would it help if we banned al hol and let the gangster deal that too ?
See Portugal! Less time chasing and criminalising the behaviour and / or possession, and more time providing support for addicts who need it.
During COVID, the ANC government in South Africa criminalised the possession of cigarettes and alcohol. What happened? I know someone who had to get to know criminals providers just to get her tobacco and wine. Inside of money going into the economy through local shops and supermarkets, it was the darker markets that benefited instead.
How about we let people take whatever drug they want, but free NHS treatment is not given if they overdose or take a bad batch, and any crime comitted while under the influence of drugs is minimum 30 years sentence, even if they just steal a loaf of bread.
And he didn't answer it.
The independent commission that he speaks should have been done BEFORE what he is proposing.
That commission might as well say none of the drugs should be legalized and then what?
Proposals should be concrete and state which drugs should be legal and how they will be available, for people to be able to decide if they support or not that measure.
Carla Denyer YOU ARE A BLOODY HYPOCRITE – You are typical of the virtue signaling net zero propaganda that you spout on endlessly about! Shame on you HYPOCRITE! for having a gas boiler!! My Dad had a heat pump fitted 20 years ago!!Go away & hide your head in shame you HYPOCRITE!
It works elsewhere!!!
Fair play
Yes overwhelm the NHS even more with drug addicts
Satan and all evil spirits in the Name of Jesus Christ be gone.
Nick Robinsons response is so naïve. You want drugs just go to a club or a festival or a skate park and ask around, sure you might get ripped off but it's really not hard to get hold of them. It would be much better to actually get them relatively safely in a controlled and regulated manner than just give money to criminals that then use it to get organised and commit violent crimes and launder absurd amounts of money.
If they are legal, they are much more likely to be good quality and not some dangerous, impure substance.
I didn't realise that the green in "green party" was that kind of green
Legal drugs are making Americans stupid and dependent on them .. White House please stop killing us slowly….poisoning the minds and put youth
In Singapore they execute drug dealers. A judge told me that 85% of crime is drug related. Singapore is 33% richer per person and is extremely safe.
Why is he asking with a tone of shock and surprise? Contemptuous prick, arrests haven’t worked have they
I mean millions and millions of people have taken illegal drugs for decades .
He needs to make the point that this policy is only radical here but in other places, especially Portugal, it has worked well in decreasing the number of heroin addicts but if not applied properly it can turn bad real quick, just ask half the major cities in the U.S that have legalised drugs but haven’t implemented the plan well at all.
Overwhelming majority of drug users are not drug addicts. Same as most of people who drink are not alcoholics. Opposing legalisation of drugs only serves criminals around the world.
Legalised coke is insane
The war on drugs never succeeded, drugs always win.
Crazy to outlaw cannabis when the most dangerous thing about it is getting caught with it!