Drugged Responses

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" .... Albert Einstein

Insanity Doesn't Stop Bad Decisions .....

As this blog has posted on a number of occasions, we need to adopt a completely new approach to tackling the drug crisis in the West.

Pop A Pill ... Be Happy

In just two years, the town of Kermit, in West Virginia USA, received almost nine million opioid pills, according to a congressional committee ...

Kermit On Drugs - No Laughing Matter.

...... Just 406 people live in Kermit. Its hard to grasp those figures ... but its true.

Loopy Laura

Laura Lowes is at just 30 years of age, a mother, and already a low(ish) level career criminal, of the type that we seem to produce more and more of these days ....

Laura Is No Criminal Mastermind ....

.... she has already been convicted of 73 criminal offences (including some for violence), and shows little sign of slowing down, or getting any brighter.

Coke Capital

Such is the prevalence of drug usage in our druggie society, that Londoners consumed over 8 tons of cocaine last year ....

Casual Cocaine Usage Is On The Rise In The UK ..... Even On First Dates.

.... the cost of this to its inhabitants is over £1 billion per annum.

New Use For Skunk

Heaters, lamps and temperature gauges seized by Lancashire Police, after a raid on a cannabis farm on a trading estate in Lower Eccleshill, East Lancashire, England ...

Pepe Le Pew Knows Good Skunk When He Smells It ....

..... have been donated to Blackpool Zoo.

Canada Goes To Pot

So another country has joined Uruguay in making Pot, Cannabis, Mary Jane, Marijuana, Weed, legal.

Canada  - The New Flag Bearer Of Drug Reforms

Like most people, I have my concerns and would hope that Canada makes it a state monopoly, to not only keep the price competitive, but to reap at least as much tax as cigarettes generate. It couldn't possibly fair for it to undercut legal cigarettes at price and tax.

Right But In The Wrong

One thing about being on the right in politics is that sometimes you are actually in the wrong. This seems to be particularly the case with the Trump administration, which seems to be determined to follow policies which are doomed to failure from the start, or are merely revivals of previously failed US social policies.

The War On Drugs Doomed To Defeat?

The latest of these is that apparently 'The Donalds' attorney general Jeff Sessions intends to revive the much discredited 'War on Drugs' ...

An Apology to the Portugese Police

Recently I blogged disparagingly about the open sale of drugs in Portugal ..... 

Algarve Plagued By Drug Peddlers

.... well, how was I to know that the Portuguese government has totally abandoned fighting drug dealing?