why doesnt the goverment do more to fight drugs?

Question

the goverment go on about cigs and how bad they are for you but isnt drugs killers people dont rob for cigs, but they do to get thier drugs and drug dealers start on young kids ,giving them free drugs so they have new punters for this killer habit , they goverment wants to sort drugs out befor they start on cigs

Answer 1

I hear you. I wish the government would do more also. But it is very difficult to stop people using and getting drugs when they want to. If they want it bad enough they will find a way. Cigarettes are much easier to regulate because they are legal so their sale, distribution and manufacturing all have to go through proper channels which can be easily observed. Drugs come into the country through any and all means possible so there isn't just one thing you can do to stop it.

Answer 2

The Government need to look very long and very hard at this and how they deal with this growing problem.
It seems that the police and other Government agencies are concentrating more on prosecutions for those people smoking and dealing in Cannabis , there are more arrests and raids for this which is a naturally grown substance,and is relatively harmless.
The concentration should be aimed at manufactured drugs such as Heroin etc which actually kill people.
Cannabis should be taken off any banned drug list and sting those supplying everything else,at least some lives will be saved

Answer 3

I think it's important to remember that tobacco and alcohol ARE drugs. They are the first drugs most people try and that lead on to experimentation with others. People who don’t smoke tobacco rarely get a taste for smoking pot and people who don’t discover the fun of getting pissed on alcohol rarely develop an interest in getting out of their heads on anything else.

The Govt; in their own way, are doing a great deal but ultimately they cannot stop people taking drugs. The only approach they have avoided taking is the legalisation of the drugs market. This would remove much of the profit from the illegal dealers and reduce the incentive to sell - but that will never happen because drug policy is also moral a crusade and not just a pragmatic response.

We cannot close our borders to prevent importation of, for example, heroin and even if we did people would set up labs and make methamphetamine here. Drugs are here to stay. No society in human history that has taken up the use of drugs has ever put it down again. There is far, far too much money to be made and we live in a materialist society where you are valued on the basis of your wealth more than the quality of your character.

The Govt. approach is to provide treatment for those who can't stop by themselves and to concentrate on those who commit crimes against the rest of us to fund their habits. It will be a never ending treadmill as people queue up to get high as fast, if not faster, than treatment and support services can sort them out.

The best that any parent, teacher or ordinary citizen can do is to bring kids up with enough self respect and assertiveness that they can resist the social pressure to use if they don't want to and stick around and support them if they do get into trouble with substances. But as long as it is still fashionable to get out of your head then there is nothing the Govt. can do.

Greed is the deadly sin that drives the supply side of the market and pleasure seeking and the avoidance of pain are what drive the demand. There will always be parasites like heroin and tobacco dealers who have no conscience about wrecking people’s lives in order to make a profit; and unless there is a miraculous shift in human nature some people will always exploit and damage others for money.

No Government, no matter how well intentioned, can force people to be fair to each other. Nor can they stop drugs being pleasurable; so dealers will always deal and users will use, until each decide for themselves to stop. No-one can stop it, but we can, and do, continue to make strenuous efforts to minimise the harm that results.

Answer 4

Why should they? Just consider that the government receives 17.5% VAT from the purchasing power of drug dealers and addicts. They spend millions on houses and consumer goods in common with law abiding citizens and are unable to evade VAT or the 70% fuel tax so the government is on a winner. The only way to change their policy is through public pressure and as everyone says they are very busy there is little hope of stopping this evil trade.

Answer 5

The UK government does not know how to deal with the present day drug abuse problem. Back in the 1960s & 70s before Margaret Thatcher [the hag] took power in c1976; all a drug addict had to do was register as such with his/her doctor [NHS] and they would get a free fix. The number of registered addicts remained quite low. When Thatcher came to power, she did away with all of this, claiming she was going to get rid of the drug problem [which did not actually exist] once and for all. Result, we now have a bigger than ever drugs problem and no one knows what to do about it or how to deal with it.

The revenue from the sale of tabocco in UK brings in three times the cost of running the NHS. To give you an example of what that means - look at it this way; were the NHS to be classed as a nation, it would be the 30th richest country in the world. We are talking big wonga - very big wonga indeed.

Answer 6

because drugs mean money, power, jobs, from both sides of the spectrum.
and actually i think that cigarettes and alcohol are potently more harming than some soft drugs. many people (hundreds of thousands) take Ecstasy every weekend, with no harm done to there body.
if a 12 year old kid started smoking on a regular basis they open up a whole world of problems such as dependency, steeling to fund there habit, not to mention the health costs later on in life. paid for by the uk's tax payers.
its all one nasty big mess that no body can sort out. because we are human after all. we can not be controlled, it wouldn't be right to.

Answer 7

I don't agree with it but I suspect it just another means of social control. Where you have areas of high unemployment and deprivation they help to keep the populace subdued. If someone is out of their head the last thing they are thinking about is challenging the system.
The grey or black economy in this country is a fact yet you never hear the government, or any other party address the problem and why should they (from their perspective). If they solved the problem tomorrow they'd have massive social unrest so they feel it's better to ignore it.

Answer 8

Prohibition doesn't work. Banning things doesn't make them go away. The States tried that with alcohol.
Ask why some people's lives are so bad that they need hard drugs to get them through the day and you might get some sensible answers.
Most of us don't do hard drugs and most of us do take recreational drugs - alcohol is big business. Its hypocritical to pretend otherwise.
Alcohol abuse costs us far more each year than drug abuse. Think of the toll on casualty departments alone.

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Answer 10

Drugs are a form of control. The government allows certain, or rather brings certain drugs into a country, anyones country, just to control the weakest of the population, usually the poor. or the misplaced, or the desperate.