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what did your government do well in the near past?
  • Maybe on Cloud 9… You set up services like the above source that people can access. It’s Canada and works quite well.

    Give your money directly to addicts 😂 I dunno where you heard that one mate but science definitely doesn’t say you should do that 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • what did your government do well in the near past?
  • You really think that’s how it works? I feel sorry for you.

  • what did your government do well in the near past?
  • Your logic is so flawed. They’re bad for doing drugs.. and the drugs have a really bad effect on people.

    Shouldn’t that be punishment enough in itself? Instead of throwing criminal records at people which makes it MUCH harder to get back on the right path.

    Wanna bank account? Oop you’ve got a criminal record sorry. Car insurance? Sorry criminal record, much more expensive now. You wanna job! Criminal record? Oooo I dunno..

    We make the problem worse dude..

    Throwing someone in jail for drug consumption is akin to calling the police as your mates just broke his leg….

    They need help not a damn jail cell, which may I point out.. we can’t control drugs in our maximum security prisons either so to think we can control them in a “free society” without taking ownership of supply is borderline delusional.

    You should see the resources we spend on enforcing the Misuse of Drugs act / Drug War! It’s an insane waste of money and resources. Police themselves say they find someone with a joint, have to spend half an hour on an archaic computer system to process them and It wastes a lot of police time and money where they could otherwise be putting their time and resources towards real issues. (A Special Constable said this on question time, and pointed out the associated stabbings in London are mostly over drug territory).

    We’ve gifted organised crime a billion pound market since our gov bowed down to the United States aggressive foreign policy to enforce the Misuse of Drugs Act in our near past.

    https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-drugs

  • what did your government do well in the near past?
  • I’d like to point out that it costs a society much less to supply one with heroin than it does to deal with all the thefts and crime that comes with the user having to fund an illegal black market, not to mention all the stabbings over drug territory.

    We need to grow some balls and be adult about this situation, what we’re doing hasn’t worked for the last 50 years.

    Misuse of Drugs act has been in place what 50 years now? Consumption rates have increased and so have people getting contaminated drugs/deaths.

    Source you may ask? Oh.. only the National Crime Agency on gov.uk

    https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-drugs

    And we may be nerds but if that means I know what I’m talking about then fuck yeah, beats staying in ones box and regurgitating the statue-quo. - When frontline police say we’re making the problem worse one has to start asking questions.

  • what did your government do well in the near past?
  • In Britain we prescribed addicts heroin and had around 1,000 users, since we’ve pushed them from the prescription pad to the black market, we’ve over 300,000 problematic users, stealing from shops, selling their bodies in a desperate attempt to fund their criminal addiction and often seen clutching strong cans of lager in a desperate attempt to fight off withdrawals.

    We used to be champions of this problem. Now it costs us 21 billion a year.

    https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-drugs

  • Germany set to decriminalise
    news.sky.com Germany approves landmark bill to liberalise cannabis use and sale

    People will also be allowed to grow up to three cannabis plants as Berlin tries to curb the black market, protect consumers against contaminated products and reduce drug-related crime.

    Germany approves landmark bill to liberalise cannabis use and sale

    Hopefully the tide affect hits the UK soon..

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    what would you do if you have a time machine
  • Or, go see how the Egyptians really built those bloody pyramids.

  • what would you do if you have a time machine
  • Go see Nikola Tesla with a smartphone and take pictures of his work (with his permission), granted you could travel back. Priceless. Could also tell him how much he shaped the world we live in today with every mobile phone using technology he created (wireless). Although that might break the matrix, who knows.

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    Just ditched Reddit after 4 years.

  • Just to kick things off: What FilterLists do you use?
  • OISD seems to work well for me.

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