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AJs test article & responce to Cathy Gyngell CPS

Posted on Thursday, 22 January 2009 03:22PM by A J
test news article

This is clearly the seismic shift in UK Gov Drug Policy under Blair/Brown- and Obama's new regime looks set to follow suit. Although the Tory's are committed to Zero Tolerance' for drug use, drug users, harm reduction, MMT & other maintenance provision, I suspect this is a 'blip' and they will follow the same path but pay less 'lip service' to users rights, advocacy, and medical expertise. The University of Stirling School of blind prejudice shall rule and the attack on our benefits, rights, etc, will become more aggressive, overt and abstinence obsessed.

I'm working on a rather extended piece concerning what I have identified as the 'new paradigm' of prohibition- - the switch from 'Supply side interdiction' to 'Demand side control and repression'- in short- the new front line in the war on drug users will be in our homes- courts- communities- benefits services- treatment 'providers' and funds previously focused on suppressing cultivation and production will instead divert towards suppression of consumption.
We - especially the poor, vulnerable, sick, disabled, in short those surplus to 'economic requirements' will be the targets of this choking on demand- benefits will be contingent on compliance with 'treatment and testing orders'. The information supplied  us to NGO's, to State agency's, etc, will be used to better target and oppress us.

Click the document to read Cathy Gyngel's report(warning this could seriously harm your health)

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/kFolSul1xlPgIMhHPq7bDPB3qWnYvim_0uoQbhfE2LXVbWTVjCH9cst5B5wBL-O6eLHO7XnWzYgKXz9DOTyB6xPBDSRzNIw8s5E/CPS%20Report%20%28Phoney%20Drugs%20War%29%20May%202009.pdf



Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The Phoney Argument For a New Drug War


This detailed critique of the
 Centre for Policy Studies report 'The Phoney War on Drugs' was prepared by Axel Klein, Lecturer in the Study of Addictive Behaviour, Centre for Health Service Studies, University of Kent.

For politicians, wavering between ‘honest debates’ and the need for ‘sending out messages’ the subject of ‘drugs’ is risky and unpredictable. Soon after coming into office and heading down another loop in the spiral of unpopularity, Gordon Brown and his hapless Home Secretary Jaqui Smith decided on a show of strength by moving cannabis from Class C to class B. The decision was made in spite of falling rates of cannabis use and a drop in the number of young people becoming entangled with the law because of petty drug offences. There was some discussion about a possible correlation between cannabis use and psychosis, figures on THC content, but the main purpose lay in “sending out a signal that cannabis is not only illegal but it is unacceptable." The condemnation additionally having something of a hollow ring from a self confessed former cannabis user.

To read the full article click the link below.

http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2009/05/phoney-argument-for-new-drug-war.html
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