"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in"
(Leonard Cohen)
"Ignore all proffered rules and create your own, suitable for what you want to say"
(Michael Moorcock)
"Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings."
(Andre Gide)

"I want my place, my own place, my true place in the world, my proper sphere, my thing which Nature intended me to perform when she fashioned me thus awry, and which I have vainly sought all my life-time."
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
(Franz Kafka)
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated"
(John Donne)
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
(Robert J. Hanlon)
"Life is beautiful, but the world is hell"
(Harold Pinter)

Thursday, November 04, 2010

End the War on Drugs!

EXTRACT: Plainly, the government - and the ruling class as a whole - have abandoned any attempt at consistency or logic when it comes to the implementation of Britain’s drug laws. In fact, the government’s ‘anti-drugs’ strategy - insofar as it has one at all - is a total sick joke and lacks moral and scientific legitimacy of any kind whatsoever. After waging war on drugs for 40 years or more, all we have seen is miserable failure.
No, the ‘war on drugs’ must come to end. The CPGB call for the immediate legalisation of all drugs - not to endless cycles of ‘classification’, ‘reclassification’ and so on. Not because we think that there is an inherent virtue in being bombed out of your mind or that some drugs are not more dangerous than others - far from it. But rather for the straightforward reason that openness, legality and uninhibited debate free from moral or legal censure provide the optimum conditions for a rational assessment of the relative dangers of this or that drug, habit, practice or pastime. Only such an open, honest, non-punitive culture will produce a genuinely scientific and humanistic ‘hierarchy of harm’ when it comes to drugs education - as opposed to the current situation of junk science, pseudo-education and strident moralism.
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