Hashishi

Conservative cannabis blueprint laden with hypocrisy
12-3-`07 | PR-USA.net

As soon as the Conservatives regain power they intend to hit us with tax hikes on alcohol, with this, as their solution to the binge drinking problem which sweeps the nations towns and city centre's. So thats the drinkers alienated against the tory cause to regain power and if that wasn't enough, they're after the 'druggies' too!

But the initiative is no longer taking dealers off the streets. Oh no!

It's to 'get our kids off drugs'!

Well excuse me ladies & gentleman of the wannabee government but to what ends do you think politicians have supposedly worked toward over the last 80 years of prohibition?

Butch & Sundance

Messr's Cameron and Duncan-Smith are shooting from the hip with regard to how Conservative guidance will cure the Country of the drug scourge.

Clearly the laws which apply to us, the citizens of the United Kingdom, don't apply to those that seek to enforce them?

As if proof were needed we see Mr Cameron stumble on the drugs issue again, whilst discussing cannabis with children from a South London young peoples charity back in July. Not the first time its happened this year either.

Add to this the fact that a whole raft of ministers from both sides of the house, which includes Mayor of London candidate Boris Johnson, Hazel Blears, health secretary Patricia Hewitt, drug minister Vernon Coaker, Tim Yeo, Charles Clark, as well as the nations no.1 law enforcer, the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, have all agreed they have used cannabis in the past?

Yet in the next breath they tell us its not good for us, and we are not allowed to use it? Further more we are now told we can be imprisoned for longer, if cannabis is reclassified back to a class B substance.

Standards? Double?

In Scotland, half the SNP have also admitted to experimenting with drugs at some stage in their lives, and in Ireland Bertie Ahearn was heard to laugh it off when it was mentioned one of his key staff members had smoked cannabis?

When asked had he himself partaken, he claimed not, but then went on to explain he was far to busy abusing alcohol, to think about abusing drugs, which was a great answer from a true political "new statesman".

If we can't trust those that govern us to act in our best interests perhaps we ought to ask our peers, in true democratic fashion, by way of a national referendum?

Perhaps we should let people have a say in cannabis law, rather than just being told what to do in the same vein as a petulant child would be!

With Police Officers, Judges, Teachers, Politicians, Doctors, Nurses..Solicitors...you name it in fact.

All of the occupations above have cannabis users within their ranks and I think Its time someone asked for their opinion without them fearing being ostracised in the work place!

The only way to do this?

Lets have a national referendum on the country's position on drugs; all drugs, in the run up to the next general election and if "the powers that be" say no, don't vote for them.

Democracy is a powerful ally to have and the population needs to see it gets used in this instance.

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