Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins

Bassman27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• rah@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why won’t they just take the shot?

  Religion. Many people (like Theresa May, whose father was a Christian minister and Gordon Brown, whose father was a Christian minister) see taking drugs as inherently immoral.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Do they drink?

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    • rah@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Alcoholic drinks are the blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    • frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Its only Americans that I see being puritanical as a general rule. There are Christian sects in the UK who are against drinking, but its not the majority.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I doubt it’s religion.

    Theresa May was all about drug control because her husband is high up in a company that pretty much has a monopoly on medical cannabis export. Relaxing the rules would be bad for his business. Wouldn’t surprise me if that company was a donor to the Tory party.

    New labour, in the early 2000s, made moves to be more lenient on cannabis, and they were absolutely hounded by the conservative press for it, which then prompted them to reverse track.

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    • rah@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Theresa May was all about drug control because her husband is high up in a company that pretty much has a monopoly on medical cannabis export.

      It looks like you’re confusing Theresa May and Victoria Atkins:

      www.bbc.co.uk/…/uk-england-lincolnshire-44109060

      …stackexchange.com/…/did-the-husbands-of-theresa-…

      New labour, in the early 2000s, made moves to be more lenient on cannabis, and they were absolutely hounded by the conservative press for it, which then prompted them to reverse track.

      No. New Labour under Tony Blair didn’t just make moves, they changed they law in 2001 and reclassified cannabis from class B to class C. This was fine and even up until 2006, the Blair government stated that they would not be reclassifying cannabis to class B. Then, after Gordon Brown (whose father was a Christian minister) became prime minister in 2007, his government changed the law again in 2008 and reclassified cannabis back from class C to class B, based on lies which they themselves produced.

      I’m not sure where you got the idea that the right wing press had anything to do with it. This was entirely the doing of Gordon Brown (whose father was a Christian minister).

      …wikipedia.org/…/Cannabis_classification_in_the_U…

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