The nation sits quaking with terror at the latest prediction of snow and ice for much of the country. Overnight here the forecast is for rain which will then freeze, leading to "treacherous" conditions. Great. Because at 4 am I have to go to pick my wife up from the airport and the route involves negotiating some rural roads that won't have been gritted. Then we are due to drive to London on Saturday when the snow is believed to have kicked in big time. Now as it happens, I'm one of those people who, when police advise drivers only to undertake journeys if they are absolutely essential, actually takes notice and doesn't go out. Which is a luxury I cannot afford tomorrow morning. Wish me luck...
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Today, Bob Ainsworth, the former labour drugs minister, has come out with what he dared not do while he was in office: say that drugs should be legalised. He draws an interesting parallel with the prohibition of alcohol in America, where, during the 13 years it was in place, distribution was taken over by organised crime- just exactly the same situation which now obtains with controlled drugs now. Legalising them would pull the rug out from under the big time dealers (drugs is apparently, after the military industrial complex, the second biggest business in the world) and the users would no longer need to resort to crime to pay for their habit, crime which currently forms anything up to 40% of the total number of crimes reported in Britain.
Obviously there would be an interim phase where drug use would increase, but it is essential that a long view of this issue is taken- and not the completely inappropriate strategy now employed by successive governments: namely, appeasing the right wing press and their fascist masters.
STOP THIS NONSENSE NOW!
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