A Step Forward in a Backwards Debate
An expectedly low turn out for the proposal of amendments to a bill that advances prohibitionist drug policies – one that seems like a step backwards when compared to the progress being made around the world. While many countries are realising they need evidence-based, harm reducing policies and are relaxing their drug laws, the United Kingdom’s policy makers seem wary of making similar steps.
(Source: parliament.tv)
Many of the tabloids focused on the revelations of poppers use by MP Crispin Blunt yesterday, with the Mirror described this as a ‘desperate bid’ to stop the bill going through.
A Tory MP confessed he uses poppers in a desperate bid to stop them being made illegal.
Former prisons minister Crispin Blunt spoke out in Parliament to warn gay men like him would ignore the law as alkyl nitrites were banned in his party’s legal highs crackdown.
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