In politics most people just critizise each other, but what did your local government actually do a good job on?

  • TrickedPrivacy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Your logic is so flawed. They’re bad for doing drugs… and the drugs have a really bad effect on people.

    Shouldn’t that be punishment enough in itself? Instead of throwing criminal records at people which makes it MUCH harder to get back on the right path.

    Wanna bank account? Oop you’ve got a criminal record sorry. Car insurance? Sorry criminal record, much more expensive now. You wanna job! Criminal record? Oooo I dunno…

    We make the problem worse dude…

    Throwing someone in jail for drug consumption is akin to calling the police as your mates just broke his leg….

    They need help not a damn jail cell, which may I point out… we can’t control drugs in our maximum security prisons either so to think we can control them in a “free society” without taking ownership of supply is borderline delusional.

    You should see the resources we spend on enforcing the Misuse of Drugs act / Drug War! It’s an insane waste of money and resources. Police themselves say they find someone with a joint, have to spend half an hour on an archaic computer system to process them and It wastes a lot of police time and money where they could otherwise be putting their time and resources towards real issues. (A Special Constable said this on question time, and pointed out the associated stabbings in London are mostly over drug territory).

    We’ve gifted organised crime a billion pound market since our gov bowed down to the United States aggressive foreign policy to enforce the Misuse of Drugs Act in our near past.

    https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-drugs