The Shambles of Nanny's Drugs' Policy - Told You!

As those of you with long memories will recall, last year I noted that Nanny's ban of the then legal high of "Miaow Miaow" would backfire and that Nanny's drugs' policy was/is a shambles.

I wrote a number of articles, and even sent a letter to Theresa May in May 2010, about this.

Can you guess what has happened now children?

Yes, that's right, the ban on Miaow Miaow appears to have done more harm than good.

Below I reproduce the full, and unedited, article from the Telegraph (no less!) about the failure of the ban.

Well, I did warn Nanny that this was destined to fail!

"The ban on designer party drug miaow miaow has failed to reduce its availability and may even have driven some users to harder drugs, according to a new report.

A survey by the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs has revealed that users have noticed little difference in their ability to get hold of mephedrone, which is nicknamed miaow miaow, since it was banned.

The report, the key findings of which are to be published this week and is the first authoritative survey of mephedrone users since the government added the drug to the list of banned substances in April 2010, reveals that more than half of those questioned had noticed no change in the availability of the drug in their area.

It also shows that 44 per cent of those who have used mephedrone said the ban made them more likely to use the Class A party drug ecstasy instead.

Professor David Nutt, a leading psychopahrmacologist who chairs the committee and has been an outspoken critic of the Home Office's approach to tackling recreational drugs which led to him being sacked as head of the government's official drug advisory council, said banning mephedrone did not appear to have been effective.

He warned that the move, which came after mephedrone had been linked to a number of deaths which were later found not to be attributable to the drug, could be driving demand for other new drugs.

It comes after recent research revealed that 40 new synthetic drugs have flooded into the UK during the past year.

Professor Nutt said: "It is not at all clear that the ban on mephedrone has helped to reduce harm.

"The ban has not greatly affected the availability of mephedrone because people were stockpiling before the ban came in but also because it has been very difficult to stop it from coming into the country.

"The government will look at this survey and say that not everyone will continue to use it and some people have been put off, so the ban is working, but we are also seeing people who did use mephedrone using other things like ecstasy and cocaine.

"One of the dangers of the approach that has been taken is that if we ban every new drug without a balanced view, then people will keep making more new drugs to replace them and eventually they will make something that is extremely toxic which, when kids take it, they will die.

"So we could be provoking harm by the way we are handling these new drugs."

Mephedrone was added to the list of banned substances by the Labour Government in April 2010 and was classified as Class B alongside cannabis and amphetamines.

Possession of mephedrone now carries a maximum sentence of five years while supplying the drug can lead to 14 year imprisonment.

There was intense pressure to ban mephedrone after it was linked to a number of deaths around the country.

On Thursday a coroner warned against taking the drug after two young men discovered hanging in woodland in Northumberland were found to have taken it.

But Professor Nutt insists that compared to other illicit substances, mephedrone is hard to overdose on and in the majority of cases where it has been linked to deaths the drug was subsequently not found to have been implicated.

The new survey, which questioned 1,500 drug users in an online questionnaire, found that 58 per cent of the respondents said they were less likely to use mephedrone since the ban, but 45 per cent said they would still try to get hold of it despite the ban and 51 per cent said the ban had not affected availability of the drug.

A fifth of those who responded said they had experienced a negative reaction to mephedrone after taking it but the drug was ranked eighth in a list of 13 harmful drugs with alcohol, tobacco, heroin and cocaine ahead of it.

Professor Nutt is now calling for the Home Office's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to review the ban on mephedrone and said future classifications of new drugs needed to be informed by scientific evidence on the effects and harm that the drugs can cause.

He said: "We need to learn lessons from the knee jerk reaction of a new drug that led to mephedrone being banned. What we have done now is to move users into contact with users and that is potentially very deleterious.

"There is the risk that dealers will encourage users onto other drugs.

"Comparatively, mephedrone is not a potent drug. We don't know if a healthy young person can die from an average dose and you would have to take an awful lot to overdose. There are drugs out there on which it is possible to overdose on 100mg."

The Home Office failed to respond to requests for a comment."

Isn't it "ironic" that leading politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have smoked and snorted things that they seek to deny their own voters from using?

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Quel Surprise!

I have, for those of you with long memories, warned that Nanny's attempts to ban "legal highs" (eg Miaow Miaow) and her entire drugs policy is a recipe for disaster.

As sure as eggs are eggs, chickens and "cats" have come home to roost. The BBC report that despite being banned, Miaow Miaow is still widely available on the net.

Additionally, as predicted, The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs have said that many new legal highs have flooded the market since mephedrone (Miaow Miaow) and naphyrone were banned this year.

As soon as one compound is outlawed, another slightly different one takes its place.

Nanny's drugs policy is a shambles, and is destined to fail. Using the law to enforce certain people's views on "morality" never works in the long run.

Do remember loyal readers that our government, that continues to advocate the current drugs policy, is made up of a number of highly placed people who have used (and maybe continue to use) several illegal drugs (not "just" whacky backy).

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Pussycat Pussycat V - Ding Dong Dell Pussy Didn't Kill

Good morning loyal readers.

Do you recall way back in March that I wrote a number of articles about Nanny's hysteria over Mephedrone (aka "Miaow Miaow"), the then legal high?

Here is an extract of one of my articles:

"There have been some very shouty headlines in the media (paper, TV and radio) over the past few weeks wrt the "legal high" drug Mephedrone (aka "Miaow Miaow").

Despite the fact that the toxicology reports have yet to come in, the media is absolutely one hundred percent certain that the drug was 100% responsible for the recent deaths of a handful of young people.

Dog whistle politicians have also been keen to get in on the "shouting", and have combined with the shouty media to call for a ban on the drug.

The fact that there is strong circumstantial evidence (yet to be confirmed by toxicology tests) that other substances were also being taken by these people with Miaow Miaow is being ignored by the media and the dog whistle politicians.

Nanny hates facts to impede a good "action headline" such as "government bans drug".

The actuality is as follows:

1 Until the toxicology reports are in, no one actually knows what caused the deaths of these people.

2 Ban this drug and the chemists will simply create a similar one with a slightly different chemical structure, that will be legal.

3 Prohibition created a large criminal industry in the USA in the 1920's. Banning drugs, as we currently do, has created a wealthy, powerful, vicious criminal community. Legalise drugs and you chop the legs off this community in one fell swoop...

As sure as eggs are eggs, Nanny went ahead and banned the drug.

The price of the drug then went up from £10 a gram to £40, someone did rather well out of the ban didn't they?

This week BBC South entrapped some hapless student at a Sussex university into selling a reporter a gram of Miaow Miaow. Needless to say the poor sod has been expelled (temporarily I think), and the police have got themselves involved. The BBC filmed a police spokesman saying they take this matter seriously, and that the drug has been proven to kill etc etc.

All very well, except for one very major fly in Nanny's oinkment.

You recall that at the time of the great hysteria over the deaths of two young men, that everyone ion the shouty media world and dog whistle politicians had said they were killed by Miaow Miaow?

Well, guess what?

The toxicology reports are now in.

Can you guess what they say?

Yes, that's right, the results state that the two young men did not take Miaow Miaow. Their blood streams contained a dangerous mix of booze and methadone (a synthetic heroin substitute).

So the furore kicked up by the tabloids over Miaow Miaow was in fact bollocks.

Will we be hearing an apology from Humberside police, who spread the rumour at the time that Miaow Miaow had been involved?

No!

Will we hear an apology from the shouty tabloids, who whipped Nanny into a frenzy over this lie?

No!

Will we hear an apology from the dog whistle politicians who voted through the ban?

No!

Factoid: various organisations used zero facts (one might almost infer that they lied) to push their own political/moral agenda.

The drugs policy of this country is in a total mess.

The only people who are doing well out of the current drugs policy are, the criminals (who make a fortune out of it), the shouty media who like lurid headlines and dog whistle moralising MPs who use it to manipulate their "moral majority" voters.

Factoids

1 The semi civil war in Mexico over drugs, that is now spilling over into the USA, will eventually force legislators there to legalise drugs in order to cut the legs off the criminal drugs lords who are destroying the country.

2 Leading politicians on both sides of the Atlantic (a President and a Prime Minister) have admitted to, or have almost admitted to, taking a variety on illegal substances. yet they have managed to lead fulfilling, non self destructive lives. How is they seek to maintain a ban on substances that they have taken?

3 Drugs finance terrorist economies, eg Afghanistan. Legalise drugs and the terrorist economy is decapitated.

I say again, without any lack of clarity or fudging of the issue, drugs should be legalised.

Once legalised, they can be taxed and the public properly educated as to their effects.

The legalisation will bring about the end of the stranglehold that the criminal gangs currently have on many of the run down estates in this country. The ending of their supply of easy money will remove their power, kudos and "bling"; their power over others will end.

That surely is a good thing?

Is it not ironic that those who would most strongly resist the legalisation of drugs are those who currently make money of them?

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Pussycat Pussycat IV

Drug Ban Chaos

As expected!

"The war of attrition between the Government and its scientific advisers over how to curb illegal drug use claimed another casualty yesterday as an eighth member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) resigned over claims of ministerial interference.

Eric Carlin said he believed the Government's decision to rush through a ban on the dance drug mephedrone had been politically motivated in order for the Government to look tough prior to the election."

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Pussycat Pussycat III

Without wishing to go on and on about the issue of banning Miaow Miaow and other drugs, I see that some doctor is now warning that Miaow Miaow may cause impotence.

Well so does booze if drunk in sufficiently large quantities!

Drink, fags and caffeine are part of our culture.

A large percentage of those who are under 30 go clubbing regularly, and a large percentage of those who go clubbing take drugs such as Miaow Miaow and cocaine. They regard these drugs in the same way as we regard alcohol.

The "moralists" can hide their heads in the sand on this issue, but that is the reality.

Like it or not, in a few years time, a very large percentage of the population will have/be used/using drugs that are deemed by our political lords and masters (some of who have/are used/using them too) illegal.

The key groups who are anti legalisation are:

- the shouty media
- dog whistle politicians (how ironic that we may have a PM soon who has allegedly used cocaine, even though he does not admit to it)
- the criminals who sell banned drugs (that speaks volumes about the failure of the current anti drugs policy)

The solution:

-Legalise them
-Tax them
-Use the tax proceeds to educate people as to the health issues (as we do with booze and fags)
- Produce them domestically, thus financially emasculate the terrorists and criminals who produce them in third world countries

This will happen in a generation whether the "moralists", who seek to deny human nature (our brains are programmed to seek pleasure from sex, sleep, food and intoxication), like it or not.

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Pussycat Pussycat II

As predicted the other day, Nanny has been roused to action by the shouty media and dog whistle politicians into banning Miaow Miaow (aka mephedrone).

This substance has allegedly been involved in the deaths of a number of people, yet there are no toxicology reports to back these claims up and there is heavy circumstantial evidence to suggest that the users were also taking other substances at the time.

However, facts and emotions tend not to mix and Nanny prefers to look busy rather than contemplative; therefore Nanny is trying to ban Miaow Miaow before mid April.

As with all of Nanny's "brilliant" plans there are a few flies in her oinkment.

Professor David Nutt, who was sacked as ACMD (Nanny's drug advisers) chairman after saying ecstasy was less harmful than alcohol, said that Nanny should have waited for the results of a study from The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction, which is due to report in July.

He noted that it was "very difficult to support criminalisation of people who are using drugs which are less dangerous than alcohol".

Adding:

"These knee-jerk reactions aren't dealing with the core of the problem.

They need to have a proper, mature debate about how best to deal with drugs.

Why don't we at least think about alternatives and allow people like me to mention them without being vilified.

We regulate other drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Why are we so hostile to (regulating) new drugs?

One way of reducing drug harm may be to regulate their use in controlled environments.

Maybe we would allow clubs to sell small amounts of drugs, like mephedrone and ecstasy, in a safe environment, just like we sell alcohol.

There is no scientific reason why mephedrone and alcohol should be seen as different.

I hope that we start doing some very careful assessments of the consequences of making it illegal.

We have to make sure there is not a rise in criminality, with gangs getting involved.

We've heard already the Chinese are gearing up to make another drug.

We will be in the same boat in a few more months, possibly with a more dangerous drug."

In a nutshell (pardon the appalling pun):

1 Booze, caffeine and fags are all drugs. Yet these drugs are part of our mainstream culture, and are used (one or more) by the majority of the population on a daily basis.

2 Drink, smoke or take caffeine in sufficiently high enough and regular doses, and you will become addicted.

3 Drink, smoke or take caffeine in sufficiently excessive doses, and you will die.

Can not the same be said of all other drugs (ie those that are illegal, or about to be made illegal)?

What am I missing here?

Why are some drugs illegal, yet the "holy trinity" not?

Answer: social acceptability and shouty media organisations crushing any attempt to discuss the issue calmly and rationally.

Factoid: at the turn of the 19th/20th century Harrods sold "Welcome To London" kits.

What did these contain?

Answer: Cocaine and a syringe

The prohibition movement (anti drugs, anti booze), which was growing at the time on the back of a "morality movement", managed to ban drugs but failed (in the UK at any rate) to ban booze.

Booze was banned in the US, with the consequences for organised crime that the US and the rest of the world still live with today.

Ban a substance and the only people who benefit are the drug dealers, who use the money they make from drugs to run their criminal empires and to inflict misery on the local populations that they supply.

However, Nanny doesn't care so long as she continues to be supported by the shouty media and dog whistle politicians.

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Ding dong dell

Pussy didn't kill

There have been some very shouty headlines in the media (paper, TV and radio) over the past few weeks wrt the "legal high" drug Mephedrone (aka "Miaow Miaow").

Despite the fact that the toxicology reports have yet to come in, the media is absolutely one hundred percent certain that the drug was 100% responsible for the recent deaths of a handful of young people.

Dog whistle politicians have also been keen to get in on the "shouting", and have combined with the shouty media to call for a ban on the drug.

The fact that there is strong circumstantial evidence (yet to be confirmed by toxicology tests) that other substances were also being taken by these people with Miaow Miaow is being ignored by the media and the dog whistle politicians.

Nanny hates facts to impede a good "action headline" such as "government bans drug".

The actuality is as follows:

1 Until the toxicology reports are in, no one actually knows what caused the deaths of these people.

2 Ban this drug and the chemists will simply create a similar one with a slightly different chemical structure, that will be legal.

3 Prohibition created a large criminal industry in the USA in the 1920's. Banning drugs, as we currently do, has created a wealthy, powerful, vicious criminal community. Legalise drugs and you chop the legs off this community in one fell swoop.

4 The semi civil war in Mexico over drugs, that is now spilling over into the USA, will eventually force legislators there to legalise drugs in order to cut the legs off the criminal drugs lords who are destroying the country.

5 Leading politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have admitted to, or have almost admitted to, taking a variety on illegal substances. yet they have managed to lead fulfilling, non self destructive lives. How is they seek to maintain a ban on substances that they have taken?

6 Drugs finance terrorist economies, eg Afghanistan. Legalise drugs and the terrorist economy is decapitated.

Liverpool's John Moores University has now incurred the wrath of the shouty media and Nanny by allowing 50 students to take Miaow Miaow as part of an experiment to see the effects.

Needless to say, Nanny (having made up her mind already) has (in the shape of Liberal Democrat MP John Pugh, who represents Southport, Merseyside) branded this to be "highly irresponsible".

How can this man be so certain of his view, if the drug is not tested?

One thing is for certain, the enormous amount of publicity that the media and dog whistle politicians have kicked up over this drug has ensured that an awful lot more people will be trying it this weekend.

Tell people that something is "naughty" or "wrong" and they will want to try it, especially if you threaten to ban it.

Nanny's drug current policy is causing more problems than it is solving.

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