Chief Constable Richard Brunstorm has called for the legalisation of all drugs and for heroin to be made available on the NHS.
I watched an interview by Kay Burley today on Sky News where he said that prohibition doesn't work, never has worked and never will work because at this time the UK is flooded with drugs.
The counter argument that cannabis use has increased since possession was decriminialised and causes mental health issues is total rubbish.
The fact of the matter is that 20% of cannabis users who 'start to suffer' from mental health problems already suffered from them but cannabis use has made it harder to hide as they're less inhibited.
The fact is that the more people you have in a population, a certain percentage of those people will have mental health issues. You can't blame a drug for these issues but it's society that causes them.
The way the world is geared, people have this 'need' to do well in exams and to get good grades, they have to have designer label clothes, they have to have the nicest car, everything has to be better than someone else's, they feel they have to be the best at everything they do and it's this type of pressure that causes all sorts of issues.
People feel a failure if they don't have the latest technology, if they don't have branded clothes, if they don't have a big house, a new car every year ..... The list is endless.
All that materialistic bullshit really doesn't matter, it's what inside that counts, it's who that person is that counts. But for acceptance many people feel they have to always do better or be better than someone else.
Personally I advocate cannabis being legalised on the basis if it were then many of the problems associated with it would suddenly drop. The police could concentrate more on the real crimes committed such as rape, murder, burglary, muggings and so on rather than nicking someone for smoking a joint or growing a plant.
The problem with the harder drugs such as heroin, cocaine, etc is that people just don't know what the dealers have cut it with to pad it out. They're drugs with a high risk factor, (this being the penalties are much more sever if someone is caught in possession or for dealing), and so this makes such drugs more expensive.
As Chief Constable Richard Brunstorm said today, prohibition is not working, drugs are rife in the UK and many criminal activities surround the harder drugs.
Crime is a result of the need to score, it's born from the necessity to somehow obtain money to buy the drugs from dealers.
I personally would never use or take anything harder than cannabis and that is the choice I make. I have taken LSD in the past, as well as ecstasy, speed and a couple of times coke. I didn't like the effects they had on me so I don't use them.
The problem is that the government is all too fond of telling us what's good for us and what's bad for us -
"Don't eat junk food, it makes you fat"
"Don't eat too much salt"
"Don't drink more than X amount of units of alcohol per week"
The list of don't is endless and people aren't expected to make decisions for themselves.
It's this type of "advice" that causes the bulk of mental illness, it makes people feel inferior and worthless because they can't live up to unrealistic expectations.
Not everyone can me multimillionaires, not everyone can afford an Aston Martin or a Ferrari, not everyone has a kitchen that's 30ft by 30ft with thousands of pounds worth of "equipment" in their homes from computers to television sets.
It doesn't matter is someone lives in a bedsit or in a mansion, it doesn't matter what kind of car they drive or what clothes they wear. It doesn't matter if they holiday in Butlins or the Algarve every year.
What matters is how we treat others and how we behave toward people.
The only reason I advocate the legalisation of cannabis is because people might just be able to chill out and be themselves rather than pretending or trying to be something they are not.
If we could snap our fingers and over night drugs were legalised, what would happen?
The gangs and the crime syndicates would fall because they'd have no way of making money. The substances could be controlled and deemed fit for human consumption and we wouldn't have to put up with pictures of people with needles hanging out of their arms splashed all over the news papers week in and week out.
They could all be taxed to generate revenue for therapy centers for those who want to get off them and real crimes could be more easily targeted as more resources would be available to fight the real crimes that happen every single day in our towns and cities.
If prohibition work, then the US would have been alcohol free since the 1920's, in countries where drugs are illegal nobody would be smoking, snorting or popping anything.
But it's a fact that the war on drugs is an uphill struggle for any government, it's a struggle no government can win. The only way it could be won is for every single person to be monitored every single second of every single day of their lives from birth.
Drug labs and cannabis farms are on the increase, drugs are getting cheaper and cheaper every single day. Their use and availability is getting more and more free.
Why throw money at a problem that isn't going to go away no matter what is done?
Prisons are over crowded these days because there is more scope to do something wrong. Labour has introduced around 12 new laws for every week they have been in power in an effort to try and restore and regain control over the population. But, as with all badly thought out laws, it leaves the fundamental problem that there is not enough space in prisons to lock everyone up.
At the end of the day, even places like prison where security is supposed to be as tight as a drum, mobile phones are smuggled in, drugs are still smuggled in and this in itself is proof no matter what is done, people will always break the law in one way or another.
What the government should be addressing is why people behave the way they do, why people feel this need to steal, mug, rape and murder. Why are so many people having complete mental break downs?
The answer is simple, it's the pressure on them to be the best and have the best that's causing the problem. Drugs are a form of escapism away from the pressures put on us all to be something we're not.
We're human beings and as human beings we'll often make mistakes from time to time. It's how we learn, but society says we're not allowed to be human, we're not allowed to make mistakes, we're not allowed to do, say or think anything that doesn't appear to meet with the approval of the majority.
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