Comment on Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas possession becomes illegal
davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 7 months agodrugs have already won. this is just a rearguard action before more sensible policy comes in. the UK is far behind on decriminalisation.
Comment on Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas possession becomes illegal
davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 7 months agodrugs have already won. this is just a rearguard action before more sensible policy comes in. the UK is far behind on decriminalisation.
Tammo-Korsai@kbin.social 7 months ago
There's already evidence in the UK that a progressive approach works, but it has been forgotten about. Middlesbrough police trialled a scheme where they provided heroin users with their fix. All of a sudden, the users stopped committing offences to raise money for their habit, which in turn deprived dealers of a lucrative source of income.
echodot@feddit.uk 7 months ago
It’s not been forgotten about it’s been buried. They were not happy when they would advise to reclassify marijuana as a class C. That’s where we got the famous line “the public are tired of experts” from.