You don't think that may have something to do with the stress the world has been under for the last 2 years?

comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 1 minute ago
You don't think that may have something to do with the stress the world has been under for the last 2 years?
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Sure, it might well do

Don't bother looking at other countries and how they approach their issues, we're Brits, there ain't nothing we can learn from Johnny Foreigner about how to approach social and environmental policies, nothing we can learn about outside the box thinking, we're a conservative country, ar way is working.

Oops sorry, nearly forgot...

Rule Britannia!

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 2 minutes ago
Oops sorry, nearly forgot...

Rule Britannia!
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That’s the spirit Hectorrrrrr

"We've always done it this way."

comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 4 minutes ago
"We've always done it this I way."
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So Germany did much better than we did with the pandemic right?

Germany is a much nicer place than England with its supposed growing inequality

Yet in Germany drug related deaths rose by 13% in 2020 whereas in England it went up by 3.8%

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted about an hour ago
Ffs Insert look what youve done
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😂😂😂

What’s this? Incredible numbers granted, but an upward trend of overdose deaths in Portugal??? No surely not…..

https://www.statista.com/statistics/911927/drug-overdose-deaths-in-portugal/

Best not to compare such countries though

Oh come on mate, the data doesn't go back before the decriminalisation in 2001 so it's not a perfect comparison and compared to other countries Portugals death rate is low

Low comparative death rate in a country were drugs are decriminalised, imagine that!

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 4 minutes ago
Oh come on mate, the data doesn't go back before the decriminalisation in 2001 so it's not a perfect comparison and compared to other countries Portugals death rate is low

Low comparative death rate in a country were drugs are decriminalised, imagine that!
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Yeah. I remember petty crime was way down after the decriminalisation.

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 37 minutes ago
Don't bother looking at other countries and how they approach their issues, we're Brits, there ain't nothing we can learn from Johnny Foreigner about how to approach social and environmental policies, nothing we can learn about outside the box thinking, we're a conservative country, ar way is working.
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I prefer Japan's outlook to drugs - that's a country I'd prefer to learn from. Or maybe Korea.

I love statistics..

I have a £10 Sat Nav gives me £1, wahoo im 10% richer! i have £1000 sat nav gives me £10 im only 1% richer....

"look at their rising death rates" Nah... lets look at the low per capita base they are rising from, And lets consider *why* they are rising. Pandemic, Inflation.. Stagnant wages etc

As for "how do you expect us to implement the same policies as a country with 15% of the population"

Easy.. we will have more people paying for it.. its called scaling, And if you cant adequately scale up such projects you could always break it down to be managed on a county scale instead.

As an example, "Universally affordable healthcare is unmanageable for a country the size of the us"

Yeah, but they are a collection of States, and not one of those states has a population the size of the UK, where it *Is* manageable.

All these excuses are just ideological.

comment by NPEssien (U22712)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 37 minutes ago
Don't bother looking at other countries and how they approach their issues, we're Brits, there ain't nothing we can learn from Johnny Foreigner about how to approach social and environmental policies, nothing we can learn about outside the box thinking, we're a conservative country, ar way is working.
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I prefer Japan's outlook to drugs - that's a country I'd prefer to learn from. Or maybe Korea.

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Why not Singapore or Iran?

Im reading about Japans drug laws...

Why am i not surprised NPE supports such a zero tolerance approach

Cant believe they publicly shame people caught with cannabis

comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by NPEssien (U22712)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 37 minutes ago
Don't bother looking at other countries and how they approach their issues, we're Brits, there ain't nothing we can learn from Johnny Foreigner about how to approach social and environmental policies, nothing we can learn about outside the box thinking, we're a conservative country, ar way is working.
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I prefer Japan's outlook to drugs - that's a country I'd prefer to learn from. Or maybe Korea.

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Why not Singapore or Iran?
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I prefer functioning law abiding democracies without theocrat influences - Singapore and Iran both fail those tests.

comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 31 seconds ago
Im reading about Japans drug laws...

Why am i not surprised NPE supports such a zero tolerance approach

Cant believe they publicly shame people caught with cannabis
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In the alcohol shops run by the government here there are signs warning people that if you are between 18 and 24 they may as for I.D.
In the weed shops run by the government here everyone must show I.D. before being allowed entry.
EVERYONE. And they must be over 21.
Discrimination? Fook yes.

comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 4 minutes ago
Im reading about Japans drug laws...

Why am i not surprised NPE supports such a zero tolerance approach

Cant believe they publicly shame people caught with cannabis
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I think they are a good counter to the ludicrous claim only Little England is concerned about drugs and all democracies will pivot towards decriminalisation and eventual commercialisation of such substances.

Would I go as far as them? Probably not. I do see a medicinal purpose for cannabis for instance.

Cannabis helps with my glaucoma, been smoking 20 years not contracted it yet

comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 10 minutes ago
Im reading about Japans drug laws...

Why am i not surprised NPE supports such a zero tolerance approach

Cant believe they publicly shame people caught with cannabis
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Am sure Arab agrees

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 37 minutes ago
Oh come on mate, the data doesn't go back before the decriminalisation in 2001 so it's not a perfect comparison and compared to other countries Portugals death rate is low

Low comparative death rate in a country were drugs are decriminalised, imagine that!
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Yeah I’m only joking their numbers are excellent

comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 26 minutes ago
I love statistics..

I have a £10 Sat Nav gives me £1, wahoo im 10% richer! i have £1000 sat nav gives me £10 im only 1% richer....

"look at their rising death rates" Nah... lets look at the low per capita base they are rising from, And lets consider *why* they are rising. Pandemic, Inflation.. Stagnant wages etc

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You do exactly the same mate don’t pretend that you don’t

comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 37 minutes ago
Oh come on mate, the data doesn't go back before the decriminalisation in 2001 so it's not a perfect comparison and compared to other countries Portugals death rate is low

Low comparative death rate in a country were drugs are decriminalised, imagine that!
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Yeah I’m only joking their numbers are excellent
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Oh