Daily Mail - Les Iverson's prosecution advice shows our drugs laws have gone to pot

[edgarshade]

By Melanie Phillips

PUBLISHED: 14:51, 20 June 2012

Young people caught burgling houses or committing grievous bodily harm should be spared criminal prosecution to prevent their futures being blighted, says a government adviser.

Ok, he didn’t say that. What Professor Les Iversen, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, actually told MPs was that young people caught with small amounts of drugs such as cannabis should be spared criminal prosecution to prevent their futures being blighted by criminal records. These could stop them getting into university or buying a house later in life. He recommended instead that they should have their driving licences confiscated or be sent on an awareness course.

This is an utterly irresponsible view. Cannabis is a danger not just to the mental and physical health of the user – its implications in the onset of psychosis are terrifying – but to society from the user, through a range of antisocial behaviour from inertia to aggression.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...dvice-cannabis-shows-drugs-laws-gone-pot.html

 

[naughtynicknails]

So they want to fuck up peoples futures by fucking up their present.. because they think they're fucking up themselves

 

[Newbierock]

Guess the only way to make it dangerous to smoke, is shady shit like this..

Gotta love the start as well, me smoking my bong and playing xbox is definately the same as going out and kicking someone in. ¬_¬

 

[20max10]

Melanie Phillips is a fucking stupid cunt and noone should take her seriously