Category Archives: pro-drugs

What better way to start the week on the BBC with another chance to discuss that hardy perrenial, should drugs be legalised? There’s a discussion at 8.33am  based on a new report from the left-wing Demos propaganda unit. The essence of the debate  is a remarkably mad idea- namely that local Councils and trading standard officers determine what is legal and what is not! You’d have to be ON drugs to think this is a good idea but the BBC seem to be positively wild about it. I wonder why…sniff…

Lobbying for the legalisation of narcotics such as cannabis is an essential part of the BBC narrative and so, on cue, we had one of the “UK’s leading researchers on cannabis” on Today this morning arguing for the licensed sale of the drug for “recreational purposes”. Pity this esteemed “leading researcher”  ignores stories like this.

I knew that this was one story the BBC would just love. I refer, of course, to the lunatic call from Sir Ian Gilmore for drug use to be de-criminalised. Happily, Dominic Casciani is at hand to explain the difference between decriminalising and legalisation of illegal drugs. The BBC memo is that we cannot win the war on drugs so best divert all that cash to helping drug addicts. Yip – I can see why the BBC likes this one..  

Hi all. Been away all day so a quick catch up a number of stories. Did you catch the Today programme shilling for the liberal idea that the Police should give up the fight against the drugs barons and concentrate instead on helping the “victims”. This idea that illegal narcotics should be tolerated, if not fully accepted, is a recurrent theme on the Today programme and a BBC meme. One can only speculate why this should be the case… thoughts?

Managed to catch the ubiquitous Mark Easton sharing his thoughts on the battle to control illegal narcotics here this morning. There was a bit of a consensus from Mark and Mike Trace, chairman of the “international drug policy consortium”. Can you guess what it was? Yes, that’s right – being tough on drug dealers and cracking down on their illegal networks just doesn’t work. We need to find more, erm, creative ways of “managing” this issue. Probably best to just legalise all drugs and let people get on with poisoning themselves and corrupting our kids, right?

Did you catch Mark Easton’s glowing report on Portugal’s policy of not prosecuting anyone caught in possession of hard drugs? Here is the content of it. What struck me was the subtle but all too evident admiration Easton exhibits for a government that has given up on the war on illegal narcotics. As Easton concludes…..

I suggest that any progress against those who peddle dangerous and illegal drugs is to be welcomed. So the claim by the Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) that it is making serious inroads on the cocaine market has to be welcomed. However the BBC was quick to invite Danny Kushlick, of the drug policy think tank Transform, to posit an alternative view, namely that it might be best to make all drugs legal. It’s an odd counter-balance as one could equally argue that Soca and government could do MORE to combat the narcotics trade as opposed to suggesting nothing be done. Perhaps there may be a few at the BBC who take a liberal approach to drugs?