Legal highs bill savaged by home secretary's own advisers

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[url]http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2015/07/03/legal-highs-bill-savaged-by-home-secretary-s-own-advisers[/url]

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The deafening chorus of criticism over the psychoactive substances bill grew even louder today when the home secretary's own drug advisers launched a blistering attack on it.

It's damning stuff. They found that what the legislation intends to do is "impossible" and that "psychoactivity", the very effect the bill is trying to outlaw, "cannot be unequivocally proven". They are singing from the same hymn sheet as all the chemists, legal experts and sensible commentators who have looked at it. This is a Micky Mouse bill, dealing with a cartoonish reality which bears no connection to the way substances interact with the human body in the real world.

Will it make a difference? Undoubtably not. One of the primary functions of the psychoactive substances bill is to sideline the council, mostly because it keeps on doing things like this. The council works on the basis of evidence gathering and assessment of harm, both concepts which the bill turns its back on. But it is still worth looking at the council's eight objections, which offer a concise account of some, but by no means all, of the problems in the bill.
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[Col. Buggernuts]

The British government has consistently ignored evidence it doesn't like and reports that don't toe the party line, it's why Professor Nutt got axed in the first place. Fuck knows why they bother commissioning reports in the first place if they're not going to listen to them, it's basically a deliberate waste of taxpayer's money at this point.
Hopefully there's enough MPs that are capable of functioning as sufficiently intelligent human beings that it doesn't get through Parliament.

[ramkeham]

If this passes would it mean that UK police would just have to pick and choose what to arrest for?

[ultra_bright]

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;48115541]The British government has consistently ignored evidence it doesn't like and reports that don't toe the party line, it's why Professor Nutt got axed in the first place. Fuck knows why they bother commissioning reports in the first place if they're not going to listen to them, it's basically a deliberate waste of taxpayer's money at this point.
Hopefully there's enough MPs that are capable of functioning as sufficiently intelligent human beings that it doesn't get through Parliament.[/QUOTE]

This is not how politics works, it's all based on a politicians morals and emotions, and getting re-elected.

If you want to make a difference you need to start a movement on social media these days and get people to flood their offices with petitions. I've realized we can't just trust our representatives to do what's right every single time they vote, sometimes they need a push in the right direction.

[Mugofdoom]

Hopefully this makes a difference. This bill is bad news for every citizen of the UK, drug user or not.

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;48115541]The British government has consistently ignored evidence it doesn't like and reports that don't toe the party line, it's why Professor Nutt got axed in the first place. Fuck knows why they bother commissioning reports in the first place if they're not going to listen to them, it's basically a deliberate waste of taxpayer's money at this point.
Hopefully there's enough MPs that are capable of functioning as sufficiently intelligent human beings that it doesn't get through Parliament.[/QUOTE]

this statement still holds true in America too, all our drug laws are based on moralist principles and not a scrap of concrete evidence that they work, while the alarmingly large mountain of evidence to the contrary is blown off and downplayed because people who advocate for legalized drugs are stoners who want to get the children high tol