If Drugs Were Legal

Evidence from Switzerland suggests that prescribing heroin can reduce crime and increase levels of employment among addicts. While still illegal in the UK, cannabis was downgraded to a category C drug in January 2004. Would drug legalisation really reduce crime overall, and would it make drug use any safer?

Based on rigorous research and interviews with experts, the programme hears the arguments for leaving the most dangerous drug of all -- crack cocaine -- illegal, and examines how a legal and regulated system of drugs would work.

It is 2015. In the film, an ex-drugs policeman investigates two girls' deaths. The government, persuaded by the vast economic cost of prohibition, has decided to legalise drugs. The UK, along with a coalition of progressive countries from Europe, Canada and Australia, has opted out of the UN treaties which control drugs. Much of the trade from possession to use, and production to supply, has been legalised.

The drama opens with the collapse and subsequent deaths of two girls in a club which is licensed to sell drugs. In the scenario, most drugs are readily available, with government health warnings and lists of ingredients, from various outlets. Drugs of addiction, like heroin, are free but only available on prescription from Swiss-styled heroin clinics.

Cocaine is still illegal. The whole trade is regulated by a new agency, called Ofdrug. The film follows the investigation into the two girls' deaths by an Ofdrug agent who works closely with an ex-drugs policeman. Experts such as former chief constable Francis Wilkinson argued the case for pro-legalisation, while David Raynes of the National Drug Prevention Alliance was one of the voices arguing against.

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[jaymorpheus11]

@uk7roomdaddy When did my pro alcohol messages and habit start? Seriously, I'd really like to know

[MisterNickOtine]

@uk7roomdaddy you are absolutely right, i apologize.

[uk7roomdaddy]

@vidbaugh most ppl have some personality disorder traits which could then be put as a pyschopathic tendecies but doesnt mean that there a pyschopath or a antisocail disorder as pyschophathics are nott labled that any more its down to personality disorders

[uk7roomdaddy]

@MisterNickOtine but a crack head has the right to wash the adulterants from there coke so please dont knock a crack head thats like me insulting aperson who injects heroin even tough i may love chasing the dragon do you get my point

[uk7roomdaddy]

@jaymorpheus11 fffs please so its okay for pepole to rob and abuse with great violence for alcohol every week end 100s are in hospital as of fighting best thing is the person theyve assaulted is either there best friend or partner hey great but start drinking again

[HaTeR545F76U6672C72K]

I want to make pure 6-monoacetylmorphine legally! I need my suppositorial euphoria! 

[jaymorpheus11]

Yeah, might as well legalize drugs like they did in China in the 1800's. Opium(heroin) smoking houses would spring up like popcorn, and every week or so there will be a news story about some meth user holding some kid hostage(like in thailand). Beautiful.

[MisterNickOtine]

god fucking dammit legalize all drugs you bastards. if i want to grow my own coca plant (probably not possible outside tropics anyway) i should be able to. natives have been chewing coca and making coca leaf tea for thousands of years,but not extracted cocaine! just because some stupid crackhead has to freebase cocaine to smoke it making it more dangerous shouldn't ruin it for everyone else. it's all or nothing,you can't just pick and choose which drugs to make legal that makes you a hypocrite.

[Scorpitarios]

@invisibleisolation The only reason you didn't prostitute yourself or commit crimes for the legal drugs is due to their low price. If they were illegal, they would be far more expensive and there would be people, who are going to prostitute themselves or even commit crimes to be able to buy them.

Prohibition only made things worse and supporting the War on Drugs puts you on the same level of morality as supporting the shooting of refugees at the Berlin Wall or the stoning of adulterers in Iran.

[Scorpitarios]

@Inferno350 That's because he regards us users of illegal drugs as sub-humans, a phenomenon typical for totalitarian systems. They even feel good doing that, since they regard themselves as the good ones, while we as a group are their enemy that need to be contained, incarcerated and in some states even destroyed. Ironically, most illegal drugs are in fact less dangerous for the users and society than alcohol (used by 80% of the population) is; but somehow, using that drug is O.K. for them.