About on par with renationalising the railways and water supply, implementing a wealth tax, raising wages, outlawing buy-to-let mortgages and a host of other solutions to the solved problems of the country.
Not going to happen. Tories a d Labour are too scarred to commit to this
I think the Lib Dems are already on board with this, and whilst they are a long way from power I do think it’s going to happen eventually.
Maybe not in the next five years, but ten, maybe fifteen years I’d be surprised if we’ve not seen significant movement.
Even with all the will in the world, this stuff takes time, and the last decade of British politics has been an absolute disaster for meaningful legislation. We’ve spent a decade debating Scottish independence, British independence, COVID strategy and now CoL stuff; absolutely nothing meaningful has happened aside.
I’ll go with never, because none of the parties really have any appetite for it.
And it’s probably going to become more of a hot potato when we have liberal locations that decriminalised it look to roll back some of the rules.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/portland-oregon-drug-laws.html
- Portland - Oregon - Failure
- Portugal - Success
Difference? Healthcare and treatment of mental illness. Canada, Amsterdam, Portugal, Mexico, South Africa and Thailand all have legal weed consumption. The only reversal is coming from Thailand and that’s only cos they don’t want a “reputation for being a druggie country”. I think it will be re-legalised when they discover it hits their tourism and it’s impossible to police. Germany is also working hard to legalise weed within the EU so it the entire EU could lose the criminalisation in the next decade.
Portland, Oregon decriminalised everything then provided no help for addicts. That’s an American problem I’d like to think we wouldn’t suffer from if we have the NHS and more compassion.
I think we’ll decriminilise it eventually but we’ll be one of the last countries to do it (50yrs+). We won’t do it under Starmers Labour or current Tories.
Whilst I like to think that we would provide better support, I still think that Portland will be used as a stick to delay any sort of reform.
We also have to understand what is happening there, in typical American fashion once it because available they started to crank up the levels to the point where they are seeing mental health issues from marijuana consumption levels that no one else gets.
It’s already pretty easy to get on a private prescription.
