[QUOTE]Ukip leader Nigel Farage has denied ever taking drugs as he called for laws banning narcotics to be abolished.
In colourful comments, he said Britain had lost the fight against drugs and pointed to Portugal as the way to go in decriminalising illegal substances to beat drug gangs.
[B]Farage denied being "pro drugs" but claimed criminalisation "is actually not really helping".[/B]
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I find it funny that Farage is liberal enough to want to decriminalise drugs but not allow gay marriage.
He has a Christian Capitalist mindset.
More money can be made or rather not lost, by decriminalization. If you were to legalize drugs but have it so you have to the drug administered by a registered doctor and such at say a drug cafe, you could have a good deal of tax revenue, while maintaining some sense of order and safety with drug usage.
Interesting policy, and perhaps the first one I'd outright agree with UKIP over. That's not enough for me to ever consider voting for them, though.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;44454454]He has a Christian Capitalist mindset.
More money can be made or rather not lost, by decriminalization. If you were to legalize drugs but have it so you have to the drug administered by a registered doctor and such at say a drug cafe, you could have a good deal of tax revenue, while maintaining some sense of order and safety with drug usage.[/QUOTE]
If this were to occur in the United States would we see a decrease in influence from organized crime that deal with illegal substances?
[QUOTE=seano12;44454555]If this were to occur in the United States would we see a decrease in influence from organized crime that deal with illegal substances?[/QUOTE]
Legalizing drugs and having it so theirs organized areas for usage for harder drugs would decrease influence of the cartels in the central and northern states. Border states like Arizona and California would most likely descend into gang warfare, as gangs attempt to eradicate each other for sole control of certain towns. The best the government could do is a long-war plan in which they go down hard on cartel operations in the United States, and take the drugs that are captured and auction them off to companies and corporations.
Certain hard drugs like cocaine, opiates, and otherwise in my opinion really shouldn't be to heavily regulated. Think of it this way: Competition would drive down the prices of drugs rapidly, and no matter how you attempt to deal with, in the end you'll defeat the cartels industries by having drugs open on the free market.
since I got to uni I've learned that people that want to drugs do them anyway pretty easily
law doesn't really do anything
After reading up on this guy, he's just trying to appeal to more people but I doubt he'll live up to his word.
He is the human version of the daily mail.
[QUOTE=KnightSolaire;44454674]After reading up on this guy, he's just trying to appeal to more people but I doubt he'll live up to his word.
He is the human version of the daily mail.[/QUOTE]
He also wants to legalize handguns.... :v:
The war on drugs has failed so badly that even if we were to stop it, cartels would still have a lot of power as they've became so successful that they have now diversified, just like a real business! What a shame.
[QUOTE=elevate;44454752]The war on drugs has failed so badly that even if we were to stop it, cartels would still have a lot of power as they've became so successful that they have now diversified, just like a real business! What a shame.[/QUOTE]
You don't win a war by blowing up supply trucks. You win it by killing the other dumb bastard.
Farage being a hypocritical populist, what's new?
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;44454454]He has a Christian Capitalist mindset.
More money can be made or rather not lost, by decriminalization. If you were to legalize drugs but have it so you have to the drug administered by a registered doctor and such at say a drug cafe, you could have a good deal of tax revenue, while maintaining some sense of order and safety with drug usage.[/QUOTE]
Or perhaps he just legitimately believes criminalizing drugs doesn't actually help?
[QUOTE=Rubs10;44455210]Or perhaps he just legitimately believes criminalizing drugs doesn't actually help?[/QUOTE]
Most talk about the economic problems caused by it, not the problems it causes to individuals.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;44454714]He also wants to legalize handguns.... :v:[/QUOTE]
I don't understand this statement, can you explain?
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[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;44454761]You don't win a war by blowing up supply trucks. You win it by killing the other dumb bastard.[/QUOTE]
Small victories are always neccesary for a crushing dessimation.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;44455420]Most talk about the economic problems caused by it, not the problems it causes to individuals.[/QUOTE]
[quote]"I personally think that the war on drugs was lost many, many years ago and that the lives of millions of people in Britain are being made miserable by the huge criminal element that surrounds the illicit drugs trade and I do think that Portugal does show us that perhaps there is a better, more enlightened way to deal with this."
"I'm not pro-drugs by the way, as someone with teenage children, and I've seen fairly close to hand the damage that drugs can do to young people.
"So I hate drugs, I've never taken them myself, I hope I never do, but I just have a feeling that the criminalisation of all these drugs is actually not really helping British society,"[/quote]
He didn't mention anywhere about how it impacts the economy.
[QUOTE=Rubs10;44455559]He didn't mention anywhere about how it impacts the economy.[/QUOTE]
If it wasn't an economic problem, no one would give a damn.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;44455691]If it wasn't an economic problem, no one would give a damn.[/QUOTE]
Just like no one cares about gay marriage because it's not a significant economic problem, right? Or one of the many other things where the economy isn't the biggest factor.
Just because he's a conservative, doesn't mean he's ignorant an all issues, or driven by greed all the time.
[QUOTE=gk99;44455504]I don't understand this statement, can you explain?[/QUOTE]
Until 1997 there was no law explicitly banning pistols. Since then all pistols are banned completely from ownership, even with a permit, with almost no exceptions. The ban was brought on in response to the Dunblane Massacre in which some guy with four pistols shot a shitload of kids.
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