There seems to be a very basic divide in society. It defines where you stand in the political spectrum, as evident in the major split just this week on drugs policy. The media too prevent these two as the only choices in every debate. Simplistically, where you stand on this basic question is even taken to embody your general attitude to life, whether we will be your friend enemy or be your friend.
I'm not even talking of the obvious and unarguable fact that there is a spectrum of drug power and danger, obviously there is, but I refer to something else, the fundamental attitude toy have to any individual drug ...
It is either prohibit and penalise and punish
or
it is support and offer treatment
The first of these is the choice of the fascist, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the ignorant anti-scientific blockhead
The second is the woolly liberal, the focus of right wing outrage, the one who wants to spend your hard-earned taxes on benefits and treatments for s scroungers and layabouts.
But there is a third option. A way both groups above can be satisfied. Really. I don't necessarily endorse it but it really needs more press...
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