How about these police put their efforts into the increase in Heroin dealing, usage, import and cultivation? One of the reasons the UK MET supported a downgrade in Marijuana was to free up officers and put them on the hard drug cases. The drugs that are actually killing citizens as well as destroying families.uevjHEYFFQ wrote:
Though I would like to see marijuana at least decriminalized our economy can't handle it right now. Too many people are employed fighting it. From the police on the street to the groups that fight to make sure nobody can smoke it legally to the groups that fight to make it legal to the companies that research use prevention even the drug companies that make drug test kits for marijuana.
Right now our economy is too fragile to make any large scale social reform that would put some people out of work.
I would prefer my tax moneys go to preventing heroin getting into my country and chasing down the people who bring it in and sell it. Never mind the criminality that goes along with these gangs. Than going after some pacifist stonner having a spliff in the privacy of his own home.
I remember seeing some stats awhile ago that said. More than half of inner city crime is by heroin addicts doing whatever it takes to get their next fix. You don't see pot smokers beating someone to death to get the money to score some weed.
Also, the UK is spending billions in Afghanistan. UK solders walk every day through fields of poppies which are making up the majority of Heroin coming into the UK and doing fuck all about it. Although the war on terror and keeping the farmers sweet is more important. Id hazard a guess that many times more ppl have died from Afghan heroin than on 9/11.
