Bunch of fucking idiots.
Proper education about substances so that adults can make informed choices about what they want to take and how to do so in a safe manner. Couple that with proper regulation and production of these substances so that people can buy what they want in a safe and legal manner, guaranteeing them they are getting exactly the substance they want that hasn’t been cut or adulterated with other things they don’t will go a lot further in the reduction of deaths if they actually wanted to reduce substance abuse deaths.
Add on to this the taxation of selling them all which would instantly boost income massively and then you can not only fund out reach services to help rather than demonise people that have issues but also fund community projects or schools or the NHS or what ever else needs help funding with the surplus.
But noooooo, they have to perpetuate the idiocy that is the “drugs are bad” line of thinking and continue to fight this pathetic “war” that only drives a black market, impure substances, misinformation to their citizens and deaths!
People should be able to get whatever kind of high they fucking want if it isn’t negatively impacting other people, instead criminalisation and misinformation harms people even more. Often the most vulnerable are the ones that feel it the hardest.
Well yeah. Conservatives are trash. Tell your conservative grandpa he’s a fucking cunt and put him in a terrible home.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
MPs have issued a stark warning about the impact of cuts to local authorities as drug-related deaths claim nearly 3,000 lives across England every year.
The Public Accounts Committee has called for guaranteed funding so that councils can ensure they have the resources necessary to tackle the scourge of illegal drug-related deaths, which have risen by 80 per cent between 2011 and 2021.
The committee, made up of cross-party MPs and chaired by Meg Hillier, says annual spending on drug and alcohol treatment services has fallen by 40 per cent in real terms between 2014-15 and 2021-22.
Funding allocated back in 2021 by the government to tackle drug use has only been committed until 2024-25, creating a level of uncertainty that has made it difficult for local authorities to recruit staff and rebuild the workforce.
Ms Hillier said: “Our committee is having to remind government that local authorities need long-term certainty to carry out what is some of the most challenging treatment there is to provide.
Dame Carol’s review in 2020 found that drug deaths in 2018 were the highest on record and that local government funding cuts had severely curtailed the effectiveness of treatment programs.
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