- Most drug users harm neither themselves nor those around them
- Treated as a health issue
- It is driven more by 'moral panic' than by the practical desire to reduce harm
- ABC classification - drug users pay no attention to it
- People who used illegal drugs did not harm themselves or cause anyone else any trouble however, they are breaking the law by possessing drugs
- Drugs education should be moved to primary schools
The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
- Prevents the non-medical use of certain drugs
- Drugs subject to this Act are known as 'controlled' drugs
- The Act prohibits unlawful possession
- Police have special powers to stop, detain and search people
- possession
- supply
- production, cultivation or manufacture
- import or export
- allowig premises for consumption or supply
- Moving beyond the limitations of a human
- Every human has these qualities
- Humans are never critical of their physical and mental limitations
- Human beings can alter their mental and physical state to become another being entirely
- Class A drug
- Energy buzz
- Sounds and colours are more intense
- Feelings of great love - not a drug that makes people violent
- Makes people feel chatty
- Psychological dependence
- Damage to the brain
- Linked to liver, kidney and heart problems
- 200 ecstasy related deaths in the UK since 1996
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