The UK Libertarian

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Entries for the ‘War on Drugs’ Category

Legal high “MCAT” to be classified as Class B

Oh, for Christ’s sake, please, go suck a fuck, all of you:
Mephedrone is to be made a class B drug after a Wales on Sunday story sparked a Welsh MP into action.
It will put the narcotic – known on the street as meow meow, MCAT or meph – on a par with amphetamines.
For all the reasons listed [...]

Video of the day: John Stossel – Prohibition in America

More shattering of conventional wisdom from STOSSEL!
Broken into 5 parts:
1. Prohibition of alcohol
2. Prohibition of drugs
3. Prohibition of prostitution
4. Prohibition of selling body parts for money
5. Prohibition of polygamy
Hat tip to Policlip for the upload:

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Amsterdam and Marijuana decriminalisation

So I just got back from a weekend in Amsterdam. Although heavily regulated, in Amsterdam it is legal to sell and smoke Marijuana if you do it in the licensed coffee shops. Some observations:
1# When you buy the weed, it is nicely packaged and in exact quantities, the quality is excellent.
2# The coffee shops are [...]

'Legal high' clubbing drugs banned in UK

In another disgusting and immoral (but predictable) attack on individual freedom the UK Government has banned the “legal high” drugs, sold around the country. People who don’t go out clubbing and take these drugs probably didn’t even know they were on the market, such was the total lack of disturbance they wrought on communities but [...]

All drugs should be legalised

All drugs must be legalised on practical AND moral grounds. Let me make a proposition:
YOU own YOUR body.
To disagree with this is to argue, presumably, that we abolished slavery, not on moral grounds, but rather for reasons of practicality. Or perhaps people who disagree with this statement don’t see anything inherently wrong with slavery and [...]