'obsessed'? 'hate'?
Who made the thread all about Brand? The thread titled 'Russell Brand: End the war on drugs (bbc doc)'
That's exactly the point though isn't it? His name is a distraction. I wouldn't have preferred you to rename it, I would've preferred him not to have his name all over it in the first place. People saying 'you're not discussing the issue' when the issue gets second billing to Brand is odd. We've (the DF & urban generally) discussed prohibition in depth many, many times over the last decade or so; I don't see what's new here bar Brand is now saying it.
Yeh mate, off on hols tomorrow. Bags packed & shopping done (note to self - tonight is not the night to test everything).
He didn't really talk about recreational use at all iirc, this was all about problem users, who do get the really shitty end of the shit stick of prohibition. Be good to make a documentary with transform about what legalisation might look like though.Just got round to watching this. I have severe reservations about RB, but I thought it was a really good programme. His take isn't exactly mine in that the programme didn't spell out that each and every drug requires a different approach and there also needs to be a different approach to recreational and addictive use of any drug (neither of which should make a criminal of the user). I think people have an actual right to non-problematically take other drugs as an alternative to alcohol, and that should be one of the things underpinning drugs policy.
I also think Nick Clegg did very well in this. I helped them into their wee bit of power and subsequently felt guilty about it, but now actually feel if they were the sole govt that could be one of the best things for the UK.
Only the Lib Dems and the Greens (AFAIK) of all the UK parties have a progressive attitude towards drug policy, which is utterly ridiculous when you think of the movement in other parts of the globe.
Well, Clegg's now done a telly interview; I don't think he could have been any more forceful in what he said and the Lib Dems have been active in trying to get drugs policy discussed. I'm sure they would do something if they got into power, but that's not going to happen...
I don't really see it as 'single issue'. When you know where someone stands on drug policy, you can probably predict their stance on other things.
He’s still doing this. Heard about his festival this summer from somebody who was there, there was some sort of men’s group event supposed to be a supportive therapeutic thing , so a guy goes on stage and talks openly about his problems with not being able to do erections & sex and Russel brand stands there and makes jokes to the audience at that man’s expense. my friend said it was one of the cruellest weirdest things she’d ever seen.
He's got all into conspiracy theories so "they" want to stop him from spreading "the truth" and obviously any allegations as such will be contrived with crisis actors accusing him of what will presumably be sexual assault/rape/grooming allegations.Yeah, he's a bit of a prat hey
So much has changed here in Australia since he made this video, I'd say that the Brand , Hari etc crew have been a little influential in some of this changing of hearts & minds.
And although the papers and media outlets are still being wankers about the way they report on drugs, it doesn't seem to have held back a strong shift towards the health and human rights of pwud here.
I'm not really sure what people want to stop him talking about now. Why's he about to be accused of something serious, and what serious thing will it be. Obviously not drugs - unless it turns out he's Mr big or something. I don't think we're allowed to speculate are we ?
He's just always pissed me off with his abstinence narrative, more than anything.
Apologies to editor for posting this in the feedback forum first, I just did a search for his name and didn't check which forum the thread was in
Not Katherine Ryan for starters.
