war on drugs

[cheesey]

Documentary series examining the global story of drugs, from Afghanistan's poppy fields to the streets of New York and the estates of Edinburgh





Channel 4
Mon 02 Aug, 8PM

looks intresting .

 

[blackburngrower]

just seen this advertised deffo worth a watch

 

[cheesey]

just seen this advertised deffo worth a watch

same here lol . thoought it be worth posting up for fellow uk to watch .

 

[JamieShoes]

nice one cheesey... I'll be keeping an eye out for this on me fave uk tv torrent site

 

[EddieShoestring]

tx Cheesy-i'll watch it

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[firefox]

 

[SmokeMe]

I'll set the beatamax!

 

[daddy fingaz]

Looks like this will be quite good actually! ......

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/01/angus-macqueen-drugs-trade-policy

 

[cheesey]

bump

 

[Avid Fan]

excellent,cheers cheesy!

 

[SmilinBob]

Can someone tape this for those of us in the US?

 

[rocket high]

i'll deffo watch that .... but we all know we will cringe our way through it lol

hey smilinbob it will surely be on a world torrent site to download

 

[VerdantGreen]

i liked it. quite well pitched to not alienate a wider audience. the statistics and conclusions were telling.

 

[STUPPA]

Our drugs war - episode 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jg7da-_S5Y

 

[Avid Fan]

check out this interview,quite relevant to this
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/3/addiction

 

[Blue]

A very good program that didnt take the chiken shit approach like the BBC do.

All the facts are there to see, it was also very damning to see David nutt telling the world that the drug law in the UK is political & not down to how dangerous Drugs are.

 

[Ramius]

Tonights episode

The Life and Death of a Dealer Angus Macqueen visits the Queensbridge Estate in New York, where he explores the cost of America's war on drugs through the life of Thomas Winston, a small-time dealer struggling to stay out of prison. He follows the 28-year-old's campaigns against the Rockefeller drug laws, where people selling or possessing small quantities are given a mandatory sentence equivalent to second degree murder, and examines racial discrimination within the legal system in relation to narcotics

 

[EddieShoestring]

Anyone see last nights programme?
I found it quite upsetting. I think that if I had a friend or relative in Afghanistan i'd find it rather more upsetting.

However i think that something may be happening in the dark heart of Babylon. This programme has prompted some debate in the media-today Sir Ian Gilmore (outgoing Pres Royal College of Physicians) has said that hard drugs should be legalized-or decriminalised. Next news story (on R4this am) was that ACPO announced a doubling of the number of cann factories seized from 2007-2009 (3000 to 6000/yr)-included in the newspiece was a bit on the Vietnamese bringing kiddies into the UK to run these OPs-ie the nasty consequences of ganja criminality-another dude was on about legalizing ganja-the gov't shithead responded in the negative-but thats just political expediency.
Personally i think that the debate on liberalising the drug laws is flowing from a more liberal administration in the US, and the changes that seem to be going on over there atm.

Here is a thought-it is estimated that between 60%-80% of the 80,000 prisoners held in the UK are there because of drug or crimes committed in order to fund a drug habit. It takes £40,000/year to keep a guy locked up-bit of maths; say 50,000cons X 40large=

£2,000,000,000 thats two thousand million pounds sterling A YEAR. Now i don't know if that is 2 billion or 20 billion but I do know that out of the G20 we are the most in hoc. We can't afford that wonga. Personally i'd give the dope fiends the gear-it would cost a fraction of what it does to lock them up and virtually eradicate crime. What's not to like about that (apart from offending some bullshit morality which is always a good thing)?

eddieS

 

[RudeDog]

Yeah, I saw last nights programme. Sad state of affairs.

I think we're a long way off any kind of law change in the UK. Babylon needs the Chaos to survive.

 

[VerdantGreen]

yeah it was depressing. showed the depth of corruption that drug money can buy across the board.
it showed very well the fact that, if there is a demand (and there always will be) - someone will take the risk for the rewards of supply.

all these little things though, i hope, chip away at the block that is current drug policy. more and more people accept that 40 years of prohibition have failed. i feel we are moving in the right direction - just very slowly.

VG