Daily Mail - Drugs need to be de-criminalised, not legalised

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Dr Robert Lefever's Blog

26 September 2011 1:37 PM

With reader comments

The legalisation of drugs would be a disaster. Consider the present situation concerning cigarettes. There is a vast black market in contraband cigarettes that exploits the high taxation levels on cigarettes in the UK. Criminals are just as happy to import cigarettes as canabis or cocaine for one simple reason: there’s money in it.
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Consider now the situation with drugs. Drug users come into two categories: naives and addicts. There is no category labelled ‘recreational user’. All mood-altering substances damage the clear functioning of the brain. In high doses they damage the brain itself.
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The law has a confused place in our society where drugs are concerned. In approximate numbers in the UK, nicotine kills 300 people a day, sugar kills 200 people a day, and alcohol kills 100 people a day. Yet all these substances are legal. All the illegal drugs together kill approximately 15 people a day.
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Understandably, addiucts clamour that the law should be changed. In practice the law could be used as a very useful diagnostic tool. Addicts change their behaviour only when they are in pain. When the pain is taken away by families believing that love is a sufficient prevention mechanism or by well-meaning welfare services, judges or politicians, the problem is perpetuated.
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http://lefeverblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/09/drugs-need-to-be-de-criminalised-not-legalised.html
 
"Consider now the situation with drugs. Drug users come into two categories: naives and addicts. There is no category labelled ‘recreational user’. All mood-altering substances damage the clear functioning of the brain. In high doses they damage the brain itself. "
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Seriously?
This shit gets worse everyday. Who still believes enough in this Daily Mail rubbish to still support them by buying their piece of shit newspaper?
 
Just like there's no "recreational" Daily Mail reader because reading it simply isn't fun!

This has to be one of the most prejudiced, patronising doctors I have ever had this misfortune of reading. I just feel sorry for whoever is on the receiving end of his "treatment".
 
oh media.....why are over half the articles in DiTM horrendously misinformed? Seriously its no wonder when I try to talk about the difference between your average E pill and MDMA most people are just like "ecstasy is MDMA"
 
Commets

Can people who can argue a point , backed up with fact please comment on how shitty this article it.
 
well seeing as.

Comments are moderated, and will not appear on this weblog until the author has approved them.
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There will be fat change that any comment that do not agree with his world view will see light of day.

It also seems he is a proponent of some qack science called "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)" as a treatment for PTSD.


Some choice bits from his website.

Many smokers of cigarettes are not addicted to them. Nor are all users of cannabis or even cocaine. The crucial issue is not what is used or how much or when but why these substances are used. If they are used primarily to alter the mood then the user is probably an addict
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I use all sorts of things to alter my mood(even including food), I am not addicted to anything apart from the real physical addiction to nicotine.


He has twitter account if anyone would like to tweet him directly.

http://twitter.com/#!/drrobertlefever
 
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deko said:
There will be fat change that any comment that do not agree with his world view will see light of day.

It also seems he is a proponent of some qack science called "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)" as a treatment for PTSD.

He has twitter account if anyone would like to tweet him directly.

http://twitter.com/#!/drrobertlefever
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found this also.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/adult-care-facilities/robert-lefever-promi/robert-lefever-promis-recovery-dad36.htm

she called Lefever's helpline where they said she could go in for a free assesment. However, far from being free, the ultimate goal was to extract as much money from my sister as possible. The following day, she was pressured to go her bank by a member of Lefever's staff where she withdrew two thousand pounds to pay for one week of "treatment" at the PROMIS Recovery Centre in Kent. This escorting to the bank happened every week for six weeks until my sister's savings, all she had in the world, were almost gone
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http://www.ripoffreport.com/adult-c...r-pr/dr-robert-lefever-promis-recov-a2wd8.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/clinics/promis-addiction-cen/promis-addiction-centre-took-a6a9d.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/clinics/dr-rorert-lefever/dr-rorert-lefever-the-promis-r-c84z4.htm

Very Quack like.
 
deko said:
It also seems he is a proponent of some qack science called "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)" as a treatment for PTSD.
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Yeah I've had that done on me. I'm not sure what the point of it was but it was pretty tedious.
 
deko said:
There will be fat change that any comment that do not agree with his world view will see light of day.
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The DM are usually quite good at publishing comments. The only time they don't is when the article is in such a backwater of the DM that probably no one will ever find it or read it. I think this is the case here.
 
Can't parliament look out the window and see the swarms of people on E sucking each others' dicks, wearing monocles, and dressing like school children? The damage is already done! Let them have their pills, bow ties, and angel costumes!
 
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Did anyone comment ? nothing is showing.

His promis centre charges 4k per week WTF. and it even managed to go bust a couple of times and re appear with the same people running it.

Found this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbeeqt6zvHw

Hmmmm.

Still no comments.
 
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