England’s Ridiculous “Legalized Dealers” Plan

Legalize-SaveLives — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:13:57 +0000

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/07/31/proposal-to-not-put-dealers-in-prison-to-win-drug-war-115875-21560366/

Well, it doesn’t get much more stupid than this! The UK Drugs Policy Commission has finally recognized that busting drug dealers is counterproductive. However, instead of proposing that they undercut dealers’ prices with marijuana legally grown and sold to adults by licensed businesses, they’ve instead suggested that “police allow some dealers to ply their trade – and merely ask them to move away from residential neighborhoods“.

Apparently the advantages of licensing reputable businesses to produce and sell marijuana to adults is lost on the commission. Instead it thinks a better option is to allow criminals to illegally sell marijuana grown by other criminals to uncarded customers in an environment void of legal recourse.

What, dear commission, is the advantage of that?

Police should turn a blind eye to drug dealers if they want to stamp out street crime, a controversial report says.

Locking them up does no good and could even lead to violence as new villains fight it out to fill the gaps, experts warned in a report yesterday.

Instead, they said, police should allow some dealers to ply their trade – and merely ask them to move away from residential neighbourhoods.

The UK Drugs Policy Commission’s paper suggested crime-busting crackdowns can be counter-productive.

The group’s chief executive Roger Howard said police work should not be “limited to the traditional role of arresting as many dealers as possible in anticipation of reducing supply”. He added: “Drug markets will inevitably remain.”

The report said: “Drug enforcement efforts have focused on arrests and seizures with the aim of reducing supply. But markets are quick to adapt.”

The study said a better strategy would be “seeking to displace a market to another area where it will have less impact“.

Dismissing the report, the Home Office said “tough enforcement is fundamental”.

But Lib Dem spokesman Chris Huhne said: “The Government’s current enforcement policy barely scratches the surface when measured by the availability or street price of drugs.

“The enormous rise in cocaine use last year shows its negligible impact on the drugs market. We need to focus on what works.”

Last week figures revealed cocaine use rocketed by 25% in England and Wales in 2008.

And one question to the UK government, “tough enforcement is fundamental” to what? ..the security of your jobs? God knows it doesn’t keep drugs off the street and it doesn’t prevent children from buying them!

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