UK: On drugs, protests and direct action
By Henry Fisher
On 1st August I attended my first ever protest outside the houses of Parliament. There was no kettling, shouting, or even any placards. Instead, there were balloons, balloons filled with nitrous oxide – laughing gas. This was the protest against the Psychoactive Substances Bill, organised by The Psychedelic Society to highlight the idiocy of the Bill, both in its principle and in its wording.
I could fill this entire post, and a few more, with criticisms of the Bill itself, from its illiberal premise, to its impact on medical research, to its utter unworkability, but I won’t.
If you’d like more, I suggest you listen to Lord Paddick, Lady Hamwee and crossbencher Lady Meacher’s destruction of the Bill during its hearings in the Lords. It was both heartening to hear so many practical, evidence based arguments and amendments put forward against the Bill, and of course slightly crushing, albeit inevitable, to see them...
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