The same stop and search he came into office vowing to stop because waycism - and then loads of people got stabbed.
Hmmm It's almost like stop and search works in preventing violent crime, isn't it? :rubchin:
The same stop and search he came into office vowing to stop because waycism - and then loads of people got stabbed.
Hmmm It's almost like stop and search works in preventing violent crime, isn't it? :rubchin:
I am also enjoying his Oyster card price freeze.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
my fares have still gone up the past 2 years even though I use an oyster.
The problem with stop and search is that it busts perfectly innocent people for the harmless misdemeanour of being in possession of controlled substances. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Possibly, but let's be honest, decent, upstanding chaps like you and me aren't going to be stopped and searched, are we? That's going to happen to feral street rats for whom possession is the least of their offences.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Of course, that whole nonsense could be overcome by simply legalising or decriminalising drugs. We really are a long way behind much o the western world on this now. It's embarrassing when large chunks of the United States have a more enlightened approach to drug use than we do, ffs! :-(
Devil's advocate here - I have always been firmly in favour of legalizing all drugs and I guess I remain so to this day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
But I admit I never saw the flooding of opioids into Canada and America coming on the back of the legalization of marijuana. It's a massive issue and not just amongst the lowlifes. I had a cousin lose a son to a heroin overdoes in an upscale suburb of Toronto. A friend from university had to do an intervention for his son who had discovered fentanyl and almost died, he's in recovery now.
The legalization of all drugs is more complicated than many thought including me.
What's opiods got to do with marijuana like?Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
I don't see the link with grass. The rise in opioid addiction in North America has far more to do with incredibly lax prescribing practices (and undue pressure from the drug companies) that created huge numbers of 'legal' addicts who - when the prescribing practices were tightened up - only had heroin as a possible backup.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
But that's not an issue here, cos we've been properly battering smack since before the First Opium War. Colleridge, Austen etc never got clean.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
And no self-respecting British junkie's gonna do Fentanyl or whatever it's called cos it won't run on the foil or taste right in the veins like proper British smack does.
If we're gonna compare apples with oranges, I could point out that the one area of India with no smack issue is the Himachal region where everyone is smoking the top (Manali charas style) hash that grows there.
If India isn't relevant to us,neither is N. Am.
Bingo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
And the fact that until recently, their gangsters only moved coke. Which meant, at least in the 90s, you could buy crack on any street corner in a major city smack was unheard of.
Well I think Seattle did pretty well for smack in the 90s, tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Mexicans flooded the North American market with cheap heroin when pot became legal. Heroin addiction and related incidents of crime went through the roof.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
That's more a reflection of how thick north Americans are, isn't it? "I've got a good idea, let's all get on the skag, after all, what could go wrong?"Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Idiots and moosefúckers, all of them.
Yeah, well you'd certainly never find any heroin addicts in Holland, would you? :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
You were whining about the prevalence of opioid addiction in north America. Now you tell me the rpoblem is just as bad in the Netherlands. You're obsessed, man.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
As my old dealer Carlo once told me long ago: "Paul, People will always need a bit of brown."Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Wise words. God rest his soul*.
*I'm assuming he's dead. He never gave the impression of a man who was going to make old bones. Bit keen on his own supply.
I would like to know where Wesley stands on illegal substances
Do heroin addicts look down on the funny fag brigade for instance
You are one proper f*cking nutter, mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
And your Vietnam food will be sh1t because they'll see you and V a mile off. What a waste. :-)