I’VE long predicted a country where enjoyment of tobacco will be outlawed but where heroin/cocaine/cannabis use will be legal.
We are fast approaching that situation with the existing legislation, and now the forthcoming ban on tobacco purchase depending on age.
The wealthy politicians who enact these measures see smoking as the preserve of people who they believe don’t really matter – those guys working in all weathers on a building site, or the bin men having a fag break. I wonder how many well-paid MPs and MSPs are partial to some cocaine at their discreet parties?
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Our government will have a “safe” place for heroin abusers to shoot up in ... while criminalising anyone having a cigarette (or pipe) in a cafe, pub or restaurant next door.
If it’s a health issue then why are drug abusers being encouraged in their illegal behaviour, free from the threat of prosecution? Is Angela Constance really saying there is a healthy way to inject heroin? You really couldn’t make this up.
Jim Butchart
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