The Madness Of The Greens...

Bristol has been formally declared a “city of harm reduction”, with local politicians pledging...

Better NHS services? The deportation of foreign criminals? 

...to focus on helping and treating users of illegal drugs rather than punishing them.

*sigh* 

Green councillors, who lead the city council, said the declaration was a clear signal that public health rather than criminal justice solutions were needed to tackle the UK’s growing drugs crisis.

I might have known. Green politicians! Always reliably on the wrong side of any discussion! 

They hope the declaration will put pressure on the Labour government to rethink drug policies and, specifically, lead to a legal drug-consumption facility being set up in the city.

Withpolicing in the sorry state it is at the moment, I wonder why they need it? 

The Bristol Green councillor Cara Lavan, who lost her partner, Jake Coe, 37, to drug overdose poisoning, said it felt like an important moment.

Ah. Hard cases make bad law. 

Lavan said Coe had been in recovery for five years but when he relapsed was able to buy heroin and crack within half an hour, despite living in a new place where he did not know dealers. “The prohibition didn’t stop him getting hold of it.”

The couple had a baby and he was about to qualify as an arts psychotherapist.

 So, nothing of value was lost.

Lavan said: “We were unable to get the help we needed because the drugs he was using were illicit and there was the constant threat he would be arrested and criminalised. He desperately wanted to be drug free, but he just wasn’t able to cope and he couldn’t get support.

Bristol Green councillors want the city to be allowed to open a drug-consumption facility, as has happened in Glasgow. Lavan said: “It’s not encouraging people to use drugs, but it’s about making sure that if they are going to use drugs, they’re not being stigmatised and criminalised.”

How do the 'new Greens' feel abou that?  

Outside the meeting, a Green councillor, Abdul Malik, said that, as a mosque leader, his faith was clear that intoxicants were harmful and should be avoided.

 Quite, so will he quit in protest?

He said: “Nothing in this motion changes that. This is not about encouraging drug use or normalising addiction. It is about recognising a simple truth: after 55 years, we cannot honestly say prohibition on its own has solved this problem and we have a responsibility to look at what the evidence tells us does work. 

“If this motion helps one more person into treatment, prevents one more overdose, reduces crime on our streets and spares one more family from unimaginable loss, then it is worth doing.”

Green ideology - It's such a powerful drug evef moslims can'r resist. Just say 'No' kids!