Mark Mardell over at the BBC has a closer look at Transform's cost-benefit analysis of legalising/regulating drugs and the Home Office's turgid response: Today's Home Office statement offers another reason for not considering the legalisation/regulation model: "The legalisation of drugs would not eliminate the crime committed by organised career criminals; such criminals would simpl...
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Mark Wadsworth on 9th Apr 2009 (via markwadsworth.blogspot.com)
If you’d like to know why the world is in such an awful state try reading this article. From the head of the UN’s office on drugs (no, sadly, the office about drugs, not the one actually taking them, the consumption of which would do much to explain this godawful logic) we get the following: The
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TimWorstall on 5th Sep 2010 (via timworstall.com)
Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were “the only liquid investment capital” available to some banks on the brink of collapse last year. He said that a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs
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TimWorstall on 8th Sep 2010 (via timworstall.com)
From the BBC: Council advises ecstasy downgrade The body that advises the government on illegal drugs is to recommend ecstasy be downgraded to a Class B drug... The Home Office has made it clear it will reject the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs' recommendation. Last month, the Home Office restored cannabis from Class C to Class B, against the wishes of the advisory council... The Pol...
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Mark Wadsworth on 11th Feb 2009 (via markwadsworth.blogspot.com)
Oh look - the Home Office has put 17 movies on YouTube . The most popular one is “drugs raid” (39,000 views, three stars). Most have a couple of thousand views (still some way behind my former band the Mystery Girls) - five stars. Thought: perhaps the Home Office should engage the Mystery Girls out of retirement as consultants. We could brainstorm on drugs policy or makeup tips for the...
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IdealGovernment on 20th Sep 2008 (via idealgovernment.com)
Today, Bob Ainsworth MP, former Home Office drugs minister and Secretary of State for Defence, has called for the legalisation and regulation of all drugs. He is to lead a Parliamentary debate in Westminster Hall, at 2.30pm.
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LiberalConspiracy on 16th Dec 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Scotland's leading crime-fighting agency seized drugs worth more than £20m and arrested 49 “serious and dangerous” criminals in the last year.
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TheHerald on 22nd Sep 2008 (via theherald.co.uk)
Are UK drugs seizures really going up? The Home Office said exactly this in a press release last week but closer inspection reveals the most extraordinary statistical manipulation, rumbled by my colleague at the Centre for Policy Studies, Kathy Gyngell, who blogs on it here. Here’s the scam. The Home Office boasts about “a record 186,028 drug seizures by police and HMRC… an incre...
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Spectator on 2nd Nov 2008 (via spectator.co.uk)
A former Labour home office minister will today call for the legalisation of all drugs.
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Telegraph on 16th Dec 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Asked why there had been talk of the Home Secretary performing a "u-turn" on knife criminals attending A&E, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) replied that the Home Secretary had made the position quite clear at Home Office Oral Questions. What the Home Secretary and the Home Office had been talking about, and had been clear about throughout, was developing Knife Referral Schemes. These were sch...
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DowningStreetSays on 15th Jul 2008 (via downingstreetsays.com)
Labour demand to know whether the Home Office can account for the "precise whereabouts" of all foreign criminals awaiting deportation.
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BBCPolitics on 19th Dec 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
