Richard Brunstrom is a Genius

For those of you who don’t know (or care), Richard Braunstrom is the Chief Constable of the North Wales Police. He recently made comments saying how “ecstacy is less dangerous than aspirine” and that drugs could be legalised within 10 years.

Needless to say he recieved a good roasting from the popular press – in particular the Daily “we hate everyone” Mail. For some reason people seem to think its immoral and irresponsible to legalise drug use. But if its not hurting anyone, other than the user, what is the big problem? Tabacco and alcohol are no less a drug than ecstacy or heroin, and yet they are readily and cheaply available.

Allowing only certain drugs to be legal seems entirely inconsistent. Indeed who has the right to say what chemicals I can and cannot put into my own body? Personally I wouldn’t take drugs, but I wouldn’t want to stop another person from doing so, unless they were physically hurting another individual through their actions.

There are many advantages to legalising drugs, and at the moment I can think of no disadvantages.

• If drugs are legal they can be heavily taxed, just like alcohol or tabacco.
• The drugs would be manufactured by major corporations (like Sony or Shell Oil). These companies are trusted to produce a good quality product.
• Making drugs legal puts the drug dealers out of work.
• Reduced risk of HIV/AIDS (or other disease) through dirty needles etc…

Ultimately it should be the decission of the individual and not some guy in a suit telling me what to do…

Fascists…!