Why All Drugs Should Be Decriminalised (UK)

Non-violent drug possession should not have the outcome of jail time for people. non-problematic recreational and medicinal use of drugs, if anything, is a health problem rather than a criminal offence.

Taking away people's freedom and having the threat of jail just makes the problem worse. Our society is hellbent on treating this problem with an 'iron fist' and insisting on punishment rather than rehabilitating.

What would be otherwise peaceful law abiding citizens tend to come out of prison worse off than they went in; numbers of people who re-offend are increasing, as people are systemically finding themselves back in prison.

A criminal record makes it much tougher to find work, is this really a fair price for someone choosing to alter their consciousness with a drug of their choice? Why don't we then arrest people for smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol as these are the two biggest killers, surpassing deaths from all of the other drugs combined. (A quick google search on drugs death statistics will show this.)

The drug policy doesn't make sense, and has proven it hasn't worked. After all these years and the massive social cost (millions and millions to enforce this law) has been for no reason, drug use is not going down, and drugs are stronger, cheaper and the most accessible they have ever been.

IT'S TIME TO RETHINK!

A caring government is not trying to protect you. Seemingly unchallenged, it seems as though those before us let us down massively by allowing the war on drugs to over become a thing. When an organisation of people that we fund through our tax money, then prevents use from exploring our own consciousness, and threatens our freedom if we fail to obey, then this becomes a problem.

This is a matter of personal freedom, as the saying goes, 'no victim no crime'.

The real reasons drugs are illegal is because they don't fit hand in hand with consumerism or capitalism, it won't necessarily harm these things because people can still be functional, however I think the government don't have a problem with alcohol and tobacco as much as the other mind altering substances because alcohol numbs you at weekends, and tobacco isn't strong enough to lower productivity, the same as coffee.

Marijuana, mushrooms, ayahuasca, LSD, these things are more likely to prompt you to critical think, dissolve illusory boundaries, and shed down the curtains of culture and make you question what you see, how the system operates, so on and so forth.

Why would the invisible hands at play of government and big corporations want their sheep, their workers to become this enlightened and aware? They know people won't be satisfied with sitting in a box all day doing boring tasks anymore and seek more, meaning less for them.

THE STREETS WILL BECOME SAFER.

Much of the mindless violence that is increasing nowadays will be power struggles and related to drugs and money. If we legalise and regulate drug use, not only will the quality of the drugs improve because of proper quality assurance and laws, it will decrease violence on the streets by taking this lucrative market away from criminals, and into the hands of the government or thriving entrepreneurs.

Tax can be used to fund mitigation desires from the government and society. It is no longer right to fight the drug war with the same hard hardheadedness that has been proved to not work.

Much of the new research that is available actually suggests that things like MDMA, psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and ayahuasca (DMT) can have unprecented rates of success in enabling real long-term improvements in people who are suffering from depression and anxiety, which is a lot of people.

The people are demanding a cure for their mental health problems, and some of them don't even know that cure is under their nose, growing in cow shit, but their caring government will not allow them to explore those avenues with the protection of the law, simultaneously big pharma is making billions of man-made, chemical, symptom treatment remedies in the form of pills, of which really are fucking people up, but hey they are making a lot of money so don't expect them to not fight back with their own propaganda.

Lastly, adulterated drugs kill people, most of the time its not the actual drug that kills people, it's the shit that's mixed with it because the dealers want to make greedy amounts of money.

The war on drugs has been a massive failure, and the law creates more problems than it solves in every case, drugs being illegal worsens the problem. Drug dealers sell to kids, a licensed retailer would require ID. Laws can put a cap on the potency of the drugs, dealers aim for the strongest product, at cost of the safety and quality.

Lets take back control and common sense, in a time where corruption has wrapped itself around the fabric of our society.

Free yourself.