According to mental health charity "Rethink", advertising for all tobacco related products should be banned, to help cut cannabis use.
Since the ban on tobacco advertising came into being, which coincided with the reclassification of cannabis from B to C, the numbers of people using cannabis have shown a small decline.
During the same period however, heroin and cocaine use has taken a catastrophic jump, and alcohol is killing over 9000 adults per year, and hospitalising almost the same amount of young people between the ages of 10 and 18 years of age, which begs the question, are we in fact concentrating on the right social issue here?
Under a drug strategy based around prohibition, the numbers are not going to drop by any substantial amount. We know this, as the last 80 or so years of prohibition have proven. Numbers of drug users continue to climb exponentially year on year.
So surely its time to look at other means of reducing harms, not centered on arrest and incarceration as a means of reducing drug user figures?
The UK government needs to take responsibilty for drugs policy by regulating the supply at the highest level.
Remove the drug trade from the vice like grip of the criminal underworld. Increase the quality control aspect and do away with drug users ingesting contaminants and adulterants which are added to boost profits, and harm reduction will follow.
Unfortunately neither the Labour government, nor the Conservative opposition are prepared to undertake these actions and with this in mind I will make a prophecy; this time next year, under the current Labour party drugs strategy, drug user figures and drug deaths, including those from alcohol and tobacco, will be at a higher figure, than they are today in 2008.
They will continue to follow the pattern of the last ten years, proving once and for all, the labour party, is bad your health, as well as your wealth.
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