Scottish government wants drug possession to be legal

[Magnus McGinty]

Plenty of Tories enjoy a bit of the Bolivian Marching Powder whilst robbing the nation.

 

[Elpenor]

Classic Spymaster Friday afternoon hook that, caught a few fishies

 

[JimW]

Perhaps England and Wales should go one up and make possession compulsory.

 

[planetgeli]

Classic Spymaster Friday afternoon hook that, caught a few fishies

Yes.

Spy appears to have woken in a bad mood, not helped by the England cricket team who he just called a bunch of absolute cunts. I mean, he's probably right but...this one was a troll looking for a fight.

And before we know it we're into debating whether pensioners rob people.

Go Urban.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Probably not, but it's not great to have on your record when applying for jobs.

I always played safe and didn't tell anyone.

 

[Raheem]

Perhaps England and Wales should go one up and make possession compulsory.

This would help make up for lost time.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I always played safe and didn't tell anyone.

Great till you have a DBS check

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Great till you have a DBS check

True. Although I have had one of those and either the offence had expired, or they missed it, or the recipients didn't give a toss.

 

[Elpenor]

True. Although I have had one of those and either the offence had expired, or they missed it, or the recipients didn't give a toss.

When I worked for a company that provided cleaners for schools (so everyone working there had a DBS) a possession of cannabis charge would mean referral to area manager for the decision before a contract was offered.

 

[A380]

Just legalise the lot, for adults, like booze and fags are all ready in the West.

Deal with addiction issues as a medical issue.

It won’t be pretty but it will be far far far better than what we have now.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Deal with adictdiction issues as a medical issue.

Whereas diction issues are a typing issue.

 

[redsquirrel]

Most drug people don't work. They steal things and rob law abiding citrizens.

Not up to standards

 

[WouldBe]

Whereas diction issues are a typing issue.

Probably comes under speech therapy.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

True. Although I have had one of those and either the offence had expired, or they missed it, or the recipients didn't give a toss.

Yes, one of the good things about the change from CRB is that somethings now do drop off so luckily mine has been clean a while. You should have got a copy to see for yourself.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

All about creating divisions between Scotland and England legal systems. Clever move

Also about opening up a gulf between them and Labour, now there's supposedly going to be a Labour comeback in Scotland. It's a proposal that I think will be attractive to younger people/lefties/progressives. I wonder what Starmer's puppet up here is going to say about it?

 

[friedaweed]

Yes, children and retired people might take drugs and rob people.

Students take drugs, and they might also rob people.

Do you think enough of either cohort do enough robbing and stealing to make Spy's ridiculous claim true?

He's just upset because he dropped a bag of cillit bang in the street recently and someone snorted it with kids from the block.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

A Caring, Compassionate and Human Rights Informed Drug Policy for Scotland

This paper outlines what a progressive, evidence-based drugs policy would look like with public health and the reduction of harm as its underlying principles.

www.gov.scot

 

[pogofish]

I think (or at least hope) that even the average tory voter doesn't look at the US prison system and think we should do that here.

IME, admittedly anecdotally, an awful lot of them do exactly that - they just lap-up the “tough justice“, “make em work for it”, “three strikes” and other such lines.

 

[newme]

IME, admittedly anecdotally, an awful lot of them do exactly that - they just lap-up the “tough justice“, “make em work for it”, “three strikes” and other such lines.

Yep, even heard this from people who were breaking multiple laws at the same time while coming out with it. One rule for me...