The Official DOOM: Middle-classes

[AtW]

"Middle-class drug users could lose UK passports under Boris Johnson’s plans

Campaigners say government going backwards by targeting ‘lifestyle’ users of class A drugs with tough criminal sanctions

Middle-class drug users are to be targeted as part of a 10-year strategy to be announced by Boris Johnson’s government with a heavy focus on war-on-drugs-era punishment.

So-called “lifestyle” users of class A drugs face losing their passports or driving licences under proposals designed to target wealthy professionals who the government will argue are driving exploitative practices with their demand.

Police officers will be handed powers to go through drug dealers’ phones and contact their clients with warnings about drug use in a bid to spook them into changing their behaviour."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...johnsons-plans

[WTFH]

It only impacts the Middle class, so who cares?

[TheDude]

Prohibition does not work but that does not change the fact that if you take illegal drugs then you are complicit in the misery the global drugs trade causes.

A fact that many Guardian readers would prefer to ignore whilst pointing the finger at failed government policies.

[AtW]

if you take illegal drugs then you are complicit in the misery the global drugs trade causes.

Those who grow their own weed are ok though?

[TheDude]

Those who grow their own weed are ok though?

Only if it is for personal use.

[ladymuck]

Only if it is for personal use.

So I can't give any to my granny to help her rheumatism?

[AtW]

Only if it is for personal use.

So now it's not ok to put out of work those drug dealers who are complicit in the misery of the global drugs trade causes (ie they import stuff)?

Buy British!

[AtW]

So I can't sell a lot of it to my granny to help her rheumatism?

FTFY

HTH

MarillionFan

[OwlHoot]

Those who grow their own weed are ok though?

I grow my own weeds. If only one could smoke dried dandelions!

[d000hg]

Prohibition does not work

In the sense that it doesn't totally stop usage, or in the sense it doesn't reduce usage? If you look at the number of gun crimes across the world, I'm sure you'd see a correlation with legality of guns?