The Telegraph: Theresa May wants to ban pleasure
By Matthew Scott
"I had rather naively thought that a central part of Conservative philosophy was that, unless there is strong evidence of harm that can be prevented or alleviated by Government action, it's usually best to let people live their lives without interference from the state.
Theresa May's Home Office thinks rather differently. It proudly announced last month that since 2010 it has banned more than 500 new drugs, as though this were an end and a self-evident good in itself.
Well, we now know it was not an end, it was a beginning, and 500 banned substances were just a taster. In its Psychoactive Substances Bill, the second reading of which is to take place in the House of Lords next week, it has made proposals to ban all “psychoactive substances” apart from a few defined exceptions."
Personally, I've long thought that the main driver of UK drugs policy was little more than a puritanical conviction that if a substance gets people high - i.e. gives them pleasure - then it must be inherently "wrong." Seems that I'm not the only one....
By Matthew Scott
"I had rather naively thought that a central part of Conservative philosophy was that, unless there is strong evidence of harm that can be prevented or alleviated by Government action, it's usually best to let people live their lives without interference from the state.
Theresa May's Home Office thinks rather differently. It proudly announced last month that since 2010 it has banned more than 500 new drugs, as though this were an end and a self-evident good in itself.
Well, we now know it was not an end, it was a beginning, and 500 banned substances were just a taster. In its Psychoactive Substances Bill, the second reading of which is to take place in the House of Lords next week, it has made proposals to ban all “psychoactive substances” apart from a few defined exceptions."
Personally, I've long thought that the main driver of UK drugs policy was little more than a puritanical conviction that if a substance gets people high - i.e. gives them pleasure - then it must be inherently "wrong." Seems that I'm not the only one....
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