At the moment the UK’s Illegal drug trade is worth £4.6bn.
The cost to the UK to police it, insurance for criminal damage and lost work hours is between £12 to 18bn.
Its predicted that 55% of property crime is related to fundraising to buy illegal drugs.
Why do we spend so much money trying to change something that CAN NOT be changed?
The price of 1 kg of cocaine is £1,000 in Columbia, but its £30,000 over here, those profits result in international criminal gangs taking over, more crime, more human trafficking etc
The police says that its best efforts do not change the market that much. They have been taking more and more drugs off the streets, but the prices keep getting cheaper.
In 2004/5
4.65 million ecstasy tables were confiscated. But you can still but them from £2-5 each.
83 tonnes of cannabis and 88,000 plants were confiscated, but the price has not changed.
Are we ever going to make this legal, tax it and stick drug abusers in rehab rather than prison?
2007-02-06
00:03:42
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speedball182
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