Brooks wrote:Also the best way to keep 'dealers' off the streets is undermine their monopolies on sale of their produce. This is how Tescos pwned Albert Arkwright and Granville or something.
According to that article, there's about the same amount of safeguarding as there is in stop and search i.e. a reasonable suspicion. Which pretty much amounts to they can do it if they feel like it.Âigorgetmeabrain wrote:There would, as stipulated, have to be sufficient controls on when such powers could be used by the police, so I doubt you would have anything to worry about, cockbeard.
 Âigorgetmeabrain wrote:You can't decriminalise and government-regulate the sale of hard drugs.
igorgetmeabrain wrote:The only way to keep dealers off the streets and fight the war on drugs - albeit a never-ending war - is to continue to hunt them down and prosecute them. Speeding up the process of mobile phone data retrieval by the authorities could be a huge step forwards in this respect.
Mod74 wrote:Well, they did, and do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county Never seen Smokey and the Bandit ffs?
Would this phone thing stop people selling drugs illegally? Nope. And for my money, it would. Although fags and booze have a black market, its dwarfed by the legit market.Âigorgetmeabrain wrote:@brooks Hastily-assembled thoughts on the subject (v busy right now) ...I don't believe it will do anything to stop those who are currently selling drugs illegally from continuing to do so, so it falls at the first hurdle.Â
Govt. makes money from speeding, sale of stolen goods etc. They also make money from booze and fags while at the same time spending money to 'warn people of the dangers.'ÂAlso, you will have a government who, by regulating the legal sale of class A substances, is effectively condoning their use (which is an indefensible position I think), despite the fact that they are extremely dangerous mind-altering substances that can and will cause people to behave otherwise in accordance with acceptable societal norms.
Part of the problem is due to their being pushed underground. And you'd need stats here for something as contentious as saying drug problems are worse / would be worse than the problems you get with alcohol. I've never had someone start on me because they were stoned.ÂWhilst there are significant problems associated with alcohol abuse, the societal problems that we already have from illegal substance abuse are far more acute, though currently less prevalent.
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