"KHAT"

[pred]

It has been criminalised in the UK now and the Somali's that use this drug are up in arms, my solution, go back to where you can buy the stuff and stick it in whatever orifice you desire!

 

[Mikefromlondon]

is that the stuff that makes them run like roadrunner and then they spend the rest of the day sleeping and awake up at night when everyone is asleep well into the early hours of the morning and play loud Bob marley and the wailers !

 

[pred]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23173985

 

[EddieM]

only logical solution is to legalise all drugs. You (the government cannot win that war)

 

[joe-90]

Sharia Law will sort it.

 

[pred]

only logical solution is to legalise all drugs. You (the government cannot win that war)

My solution would put all the drug barons out of work, pull the rug out from under Al Qaeda regards drug running in the Middle East and stop circa 99% of petty crime in the UK.

1. We buy large quantities of opium direct from the farmers. Cut the money off from Al Qaeda and get our troops back home.

2. We produce an ample quantity of morphine for medical purposes and then produce sufficient quantities of heroin for our addicts and GIVE it to them.

3. As they don't have to pay for their fix, they wont go out robbing old grannies, crime rate falls. Also no longer viable for pushers to sell the stuff at inflated prices.

Have I missed anything? Win! Win! Win! situation.

 

[EddieM]

only logical solution is to legalise all drugs. You (the government cannot win that war)

My solution would put all the drug barons out of work, pull the rug out from under Al Qaeda regards drug running in the Middle East and stop circa 99% of petty crime in the UK.

1. We buy large quantities of opium direct from the farmers. Cut the money off from Al Qaeda and get our troops back home.

2. We produce an ample quantity of morphine for medical purposes and then produce sufficient quantities of heroin for our addicts and GIVE it to them.

3. As they don't have to pay for their fix, they wont go out robbing old grannies, crime rate falls. Also no longer viable for pushers to sell the stuff at inflated prices.

Have I missed anything? Win! Win! Win! situation.

Nearly, apart from you don't buy it, you make it and control it. administered in a controlled environment.Benefits? pretty much as you describe. Puts the drug barons, growers, and pushers out of business immediately. Stops the need for "legal" highs.

I really would never want anyone to get hooked on drugs at all, but if you can't beat it, control it!

 

[JBR]

Pred's idea is a good one. The only 'drawback' is that those who partake of the free drugs will suffer the consequences. However, that is their choice. I'm sure that everybody knows by now what the adverse effects of drugs are.

My only question is, would the NHS have to pick up the pieces?

 

[tony1851]

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[crystal ball]

Qat (the alternative spelling) is a big favourite with Scrabble players trying to use up the Q

 

[JBR]

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But that picture is extolling the 'virtues' of mother's ruin (gin), which is perfectly legal.

 

[chapeau]

2. We produce an ample quantity of morphine for medical purposes and then produce sufficient quantities of heroin for our addicts and GIVE it to them.

Heroin is just two morphine molecules stuck together and it's also called diamorphine. You will get heroin used in a medical setting all the time, it's very good stuff. I forget the actual circumstances, but I once had 15 litres of medical grade heroin on me walking down a London street. Probably only cost £50 to make too back then, dirt cheap. Reasonably harmless if used properly.

 

[EddieM]

Yes, with a known purity, safely administered in a controlled environment with necessary support, far better alternative to the current system and far far cheaper. And before anyone asks no apart from a couple of "herbal" cigs at uni (which made me violently sick) i have never touched anything more powerful than a solpediene. I neither condone their use, nor condemn it, its life it happens, the current system of denial and criminalisation is daft.

 

[Whitespirit66]

I think that we should all get behind the ban and give it our full support.

Here's why -

http://raedwald.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/why-i-support-qat-ban.html

 

[JBR]

I think that we should all get behind the ban and give it our full support.

Here's why -

http://raedwald.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/why-i-support-qat-ban.html[/QUOTE]

From the Guardian;

"They are always talking about a ban," said one Somali man in his 20s, who chewed qat from a blue plastic bag while sitting on a table where paperwork recorded the day's deliveries. "But if they ban it, I will go back to my home country," he said.

Well that's just done it now. They won't want to upset any of our 'ethnics', so my guess is that the ban will be quietly forgotten about.