Legalising cannabis was a hoary old chestnut even when I was an undergraduate, and that was before many of today's were born. So there is a feeling of "the oldest swingers in town" about the likes of Sajid Javid, 48, suggesting it on the day that it turns out that almost one third of under-25s do not even drink alcohol. The Second Georgian Age is on its deathbed, and the Second Victorian Age is well into its birth pangs.
Still, legalising drugs has always been the logic of neoliberalism. Radical change can never come while the workers, the poor and the youth are in a state of stupefaction. That is what the Big Dope lobby wants. Of course it does. Look at who and what it is. We have been here before.
Margaret Thatcher herself was against legalisation for cultural reasons of her own, but the younger Thatcherites, who are pretty much the only ones alive today, have always treated it as an article of faith. And there are still plenty of those in all four of the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, and the SNP.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and our people need to hold the balance of power in it. My crowdfunding page is here, or email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com for other options. That address accepts PayPal.
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