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NEWS: Inthemix.com.au 24 Nov 01: Recreational Ecstasy Use OK, Says Top London Cop

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Recreational Ecstasy Use OK, Says Top London Cop
Posted: Saturday, Nov 24, 2001 @ 3:14 pm
Courtesy of Jonty Adderley @ http://www.skrufff.com
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Senior London cops this week called for radical drug law reforms including downgrading ecstasy from Class A to Class B with one suggesting arresting people for ecstasy possession was a “waste of time”.
Speaking before a government enquiry on drugs, Commander Brian Paddick who controls policing in Brixton, was unusually realistic in his assessment of London’s drug culture.
“There are a whole range of people who buy drugs, not just cannabis but even cocaine and ecstasy who buy these drugs with money they have legitimately earned,” he said.
“They use a small amount of these drugs, a lot of them just at weekends. It has no adverse effect on the rest of the people they are with, either in terms of who they socialise with, or within the wider community and they go back to work on Monday morning and are unaffected for the rest of the week.”
Telling the committee that such offenders are already a low priority for him personally, Commander Paddick also came out against sending police into night clubs and raves.
“If I felt my officers were going into nightclubs looking for people who were in possession of ecstasy, then I would say to them- and I would say publicly- that they were wasting police resources.”
Though the Commander was later rebuked by Scotland Yard, his views remain on the conservative side compared to many other authorities across Europe, such as Spain.
This week, Spain’s Supreme Court proposed to increase maximum personal drugs allowances to effectively legalise low level dealing (having already effectively decriminalised personal possession of all drugs).
“The idea behind this greater leniency is to protect individuals of diminished resources who are compelled by circumstances, or by drug mafias, to transport small quantities of narcotics,” Ibiza Online reported this week.
If the new Spanish laws are passed, individuals will be allowed to possess up to 2.5 kilos of cannabis and 750 grams of cocaine.
From: http://www.inthemix.com.au/p/np/viewnews.php?newsid=1006575242,83592,
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BigTrancer
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decriminalised the possession of up to 750g of charlie... that's full-on... i'm packing my bags and movin to spain!!
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Can you imagine the pile that 750g of coke would make?
Think about it, that's 3/4 of one of those kilo bags of flour you get at the supermarket.
Holy hogging-the-rolled-up-note Batman!
 
holy fuck... i mean 750g is a bit excessive... that's some serious money for someone... and decriminalising that amount... that's pretty revolutionary...
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Maybe that's a typo - because 750mg could be considered for personal use... but then again 2.5kg of pot is more than the average stoner can probably handle in one sitting so maybe they do mean 750 grams of coke...
Bugger me!
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Well, who knows if this is for the better or worse(I hope for the better) but it's worth a try as our current laws are way to strict for the recreational/one time drug user etc......but maybe not for the big time dealers.
*thinks of all the liquor shops & distillerys then points a finger*
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I guess the is just another instalment in the shift in public sentiment therefore public servant sentiment. As more people drop as a % of the popultaion that means a higher % of the voting population.
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Finally, a realistic experiment. The rest of the world will follow the outcome in spain.
So far, the results in Holland have proven insubstantial to provide evidence either for or against. Thats been over 20 years.
It make take time, but one day we will develop a solution!
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Well yeah, I know that, you know that - but do they know that?
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And on the flip side, I can't imagine that 750g is for personal use...
Then again... hmmmmmm...
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This' what I've been waiting for; it's begun.
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Look to the future, one day this war on drugs will be declared over, if for nothing else, for our yearning for headlines which sell.
...fuck I'd love that 750g's
 
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