Opinions - Last night i sent this email to the whole goverment

[solartrinity]

I want you to tell me when the goverment will actually get round to addressing the drug classification problem? As recently outlined by the Chief of police in Scotland in past weeks there is a serious problem which is not being sorted out and he requested all drugs to be made legal or new ruling to come about addressing the unfair way that the drugs in society have been catagorised that the goverment deems fit to be seen as illegal and harmful but they have missed the fact that alcohol and cigarettes, which are the two main killers in the uk to date where drugs are concerned.

I have to admit I have no faith in the goverment or anything that they say, or promise and watch tv at the houses of parliment in disbelief as I watch grown men acting like spoilt children making snide comments about each other as if scoring points. The whole goverment idea just misses the point that it was put there for in the first place which was to represent people in the countries views and express thier will and hopes for the future and try to forfill thier jobs, and fat wallets, by carrying the peoples word and directing the country the peoples way.

There was a investigation last yr in june 2006 looking into the harmful effects of the drugs in society and the impact they were having on addiction levels, deaths and thier reasons to be classed in certain catagories to represent that. But of course you would know that already you dont need me to tell you what your day at work was about, or maybe I do as you are all usually asleep on the benches, even when the goverment is being televised, if that isnt the most rudest thing I really dont know! Not only do you sleep through your day but real isues are passing you by and you are too easy to ignore the issues that dont fit into your scheme of how the country should be run and be.

The investigation from june 2006 last year reveiled that the drug classification laws are outdated and ned to be brought up to speed and inline with todays figures and facts. The last classification review was made in 1973, thats 33 years ago! The chief drugs of destruction in society and omitted are alcohol and cigarettes with astounding figures where health issues and deaths have been a significant factor to thousands every year and there have been hardly any figures to support the classifications on the outlawed drugs currently illegal. Every weekend the cities are filled with drunken people who flock to the clubs in order to get drunk and binge drink and push crime figures and arrests through the roof on a weekly basis. Problems and arrests at weekends have been proved to be stemmed from drunken violence and behaviour with a steady rise of anti social behaviour and violence towards police and aimed at other people around them that have the unfortunate luck to get in the way when they decide they are ready for a brawl. These figures dont even include the violent incidents with domestic violence related to drunken behaviour and also to vandalism.

In the report last year Ecstacy was found to be of no physical side effects or long term damage and that it would actually make a good anti depressant and also has medical potentials for parkinsons disease, post traumatic stress disorder, therapy and counselling for delicate issues and that people who took the drug showed a calm quite manner and also that it didnt have the potential to be an addictive chemical compound.

Also cannabis, which is constantly being blamed for drug addicted withdrawal fueled crime and the biggest threat to societys safety. People labelled as asbos and disfunctional youth of today who are preying on neighbourhoods to feed thier habit. Every week it is on the front of the paper or in the news in some shape or form broadcasting the usual let down to society selected offenders who have been cautioned for a small amount of cannabis or found to be growing a few plants, labelling them scum of society and drug dealing menaces. Now you all may live on cloud nine in the houses of parliment but I mean really, wake up and at least try and be realistic about issues here, that are for some reason always seen as bad activities and to be looked down on as thats how they should be. Pull yourself not just actually awake on those benches but into the 21st century and 2007! Cannabis needs legalisation and recognising for its amazing medical proof that it is pioneering as the next best thing to pain relief since the discovery of the asprin. It has been proved through 100s of medical trials to show decreased pain for long term illness such as arthritis and THC the naturally found organic molecular compound is working better as an anti depressant and also with mental health and helping people with the biggest factor affecting thier lives today which is the stress of living in a governed society where thier freedoms and human rights are practically none existant. Why dont you ban alcohol, why do you condon football violence that goes hand in hand with it, along with the weekend crime and disorderly arrests which are putting a strain on an already struggling police force. Alcohol has been proved along with smoking to be both more addictive and harmful than heroin! And still you sit there letting it pass you by, along with everything else that matters to joe bloggs lower class who actually lives to your laws and taxes and opinions shioved down thier throats. I refuse to vote anymore and if i could, along with thousands of others would put a tick of no confidence on my ballot form. The goverment thinks it is the one in control in thier upper class disullusioned world they surround themselves with but the reason they are still there is because no one votes anymore because theres no one worth voting for. We dont want improvements inthe NHS promised to us in your referendems we dont want more funds for our schools, new flowers around the council offices or a revision of cutting the taxes you put at such rediculaous levels in the first place reduced. We want real issues, real life, real reality addressed. We want support in our communities and the aurthorities to stop lying and twisting figures and causing propaganda and scare mongering. To stop telling people in this country how it is and what is black and white because it is and what issues are looked bad on as thats how they always have been. People are realising your lies and false promises and lack of concern for thier welfare and even though we are all going along with it for the time being you know as well as I the day is coming when we wont play ball for a quiet life and demand a change. People in society used to be middle class that doesnt exist anymore just rich and poor. We are the ones seeing the suffering and feeling the restrictions and if you check figures and the drastic rise of depression and mental illness you will see how this goverment is destroying the very thing it should be looking after and talking care of, its people and the fooled generation of parents whose votes put you there in the first place.
Mental hospitals have now all been closed and so theres no wonder theres a rise in suicide and murder and crazy twisted minds of some people out there, paedaphiles are being let off, continual rape attackers and child molesters are being given a slap on the wrist and thier issues brushed under the carpet along with our worrys. You are whats making society like it is, we are a product of your ignorance and a frustrated society lashing out at our nearest and dearest unable to vent our anger at the real offenders and stress creators. We dont want to surround ourselves with a materialistic fantasy, we jusat want to be seen as human beings with rights to live our lives being treated with respect and be given back our self respect. The goverment should know a bit about psycology and sociology. If people are mistreated and suppressed and denied the right to do simple things like afford to put dinner on the table, cloth thier kids, to be rescued from violent crime when they dial 999 or with a medical emergency as there are not enough staff on but arrive 5 hrs later, if at all. The sociology and psycology is obviously going to be a general nobody gives a shit so why should I. And so gangs form so kids feel part of something, a sense of belonging and having something, vandalism is increasing, bad attitudes in the youth of today, the chav asbo as you label them are the result and proof of this screwed up society and its out of touch system. They have nothing but themselves and each other and thier famillies and so it doesnt suprise me when i see them lashing out in bad behaviour to peers and aurthority. Lack of respect to police and lack of motivation for work and a future because as far as they are concerned they havent got one, thier hopes and beliefs are banned or outcast or not even worth trying to voice because they have already been written off and labelled and nobodies able to change any of this is willing to listen to them, unless its for an open day a cutting of a ribbon for a new church hall thats the only time figures in power rub shoulders with the real lower class as they smile for the camera and say cheese.

I dont even know why I am trying to get the goverment and my local MP to realise or listen to anything that I am saying to you. I know i will be immediately labelled and tarred with mental illness or just lashing out at you randomly asi dont feel happy today. But I am trying to put across real issues and problems that need dealing with because soon it wont be a matter of dealing with them because they wont be there not because you have sorted them out but because the goverment isnt going to matter anymore or have control over the large amount of inhabitants of this country that have been living real life behind the laws gaze and acceptable morals set by you for such a long time that they have thier own morals and laws and belief in surviving in life the best way they know and have set thier own pecking order of who is in power running the county and people to look up to and admire. And guess what it isnt you lot anymore, oops. So tell me, is it too late for the goverment to catch up with the rest of the country and where morals and standards and laws are in real world where we set them and live our lives to or are they going to just stay that comedy act on the news living out thier new world order delusions causing pain and suffering killing other human beings for oil and land allowing such cruelty to go by unrecognised, letting troops be blown up and get away with such shameful acts against other humans because they are a different colour and religion. I have eyes and see the reality and live with the post traumaed x troops who regret ever representing you and witness the truth through underground news and see proof of it all over the internet.

I will leave things here as I could discuss the state of this country all night and address 100s more concerns and issues but I some how feel I know it has already fallen on deaf ears, after all why would you listen to someone like me? Im just another chav asbo with bad attitude and proof of how society is out of control. Well what ever you think, you showed me how to treat something with contempt and lack of respect. I havent been more sure or in control of my own life and desicions. Can you say that your in control or confident with your desisions and how you are living a materialistic illusion who is out of order and who isnt facing up to the truth and dealing with it?

By the way Mr Brown, you know i said earlier that no ones voting anymore and so thats why nothings changing well are you now electing yourselves as I dont remember any election with choice votes that placed you in charge of our lives, and i dont seem to be the only one with amnesia of that event either. Oh actually i do remember something about an election, a cancelled last minuite one, see you do know you aint in control anymore, how embarrassing

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I couldn't agree more

[Purest]

An interesting piece to read however I have a few problems with the way its been constructed.

Firstly you've sworn. As soon as you swear you are essentially stating that you're enraged with the person you're writing to, in rage people are rarely able to still conduct a rational argument.

Secondly, you made a point about politicians just trying to score points against eachother, and yet you are acting exactly like them by saying later on about how they sleep on the benches, instantly throws your entire argument out the window i'm afraid to say.

Then theres the fact you said you have no faith in the government. That may be how you feel; but unfortunately its not a good way to convince a governmental official to do anything. I doubt more than maybe 2 people will read past that paragraph alone.

Admitting you don't vote proves absolutely nothing, it's been a view by a lot of people for many years now that if you don't vote you shouldn't have the right to complain. So few people turn up to elections in this country anymore, it just keeps these people in power because of the blind voters that will always vote for the same party even if they said "we're increasing income tax to 92% on anyone that earns more than £200 per year", so really you've shot yourself in the foot there. No vote, no say.

Tony Blair had 2 options when he stepped down as prime minister, he could call a general election stating he would not be part of it, which could compromise his entire party. Or he could pass across his position as Prime Minister to Gordon Brown, which keeps his party in power garuanteed until the next election. When GB took over as party leader the polls showed a huge amount of support for him from the public initially, hense the talks of another general election, which would have left Labour in power for another 4 years essentially, however after mere weeks his popularity dropped considerably, hense why they didn't call another election, why put yourself up to fail unless you really have to.

Essentially everything you've said about drugs is fair, mentioning the medical benefits of cannabis is always a good start to a debate, however most politicians will begin to read this email and say "Another junkie wants to buy his fix without worrying about getting caught *delete*" and honestly, politicians are weaseley enough to do just that. If you get a response then please post it up here, I for one would be very interested in seeing how those weasels will actually respond.

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	Good and helpful analysis. This is the sort of thing I would like to have written if I had the willpower to read past t...
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[beentheredonethatagain]

I commend you on your passion . A little bit long winded, not trying to sound mean, I just dont know if you can get them lazy bastards to read anything longer than an ad on the bathroom wall.

[radiometer]

I'd run this by a strict editor if you want people to take it seriously. The very first sentence contains a grammatical error. The massive paragraphs regarding marijuana are completely unreadable due to the lack of white space. Other valid objections were raised above.

Please do not take this as a discouragement but as a contructive criticism. I wish you the very best of luck.

[Perception Addict]

If you like, I'd be happy to edit this. I don't edit professionally but I'm often the go to girl for when my friends write formal papers.

[rxbandit]

Perception Addict is an excellent editor. I can attest to her skills. The only problem is that it was already sent... If a good number of us sent similiar emails does anyone wager it might have an impact? just curious.

[beentheredonethatagain]

Originally Posted by rxbandit

Perception Addict is an excellent editor. I can attest to her skills. The only problem is that it was already sent... If a good number of us sent similiar emails does anyone wager it might have an impact? just curious.

I dont think by us here in america sending email to the Uk would be of any value, I'm not sure if you meant that or if we sent a email to our governments figue heads , now that would be of some value, only if we all did it.

[Perception Addict]

As long as it's cordial, I think it could do some good, especially if people target the congressmen/senate members that they know have a place in their heart for drug reform. I have called the senate members/reps for my state before in support of aclu issues, and it's generally gone over well. The aclu then sends out information showing the amount of support for the issues it is protesting, and if it's weighty sometimes it really does influence the decisions of the house and senate.

Not sure how this would work outside the US, but as for here I think it would be a pretty good idea to send it around once edited.

[solartrinity]

Originally Posted by Perception Addict

As long as it's cordial, I think it could do some good, especially if people target the congressmen/senate members that they know have a place in their heart for drug reform. I have called the senate members/reps for my state before in support of aclu issues, and it's generally gone over well. The aclu then sends out information showing the amount of support for the issues it is protesting, and if it's weighty sometimes it really does influence the decisions of the house and senate.

Not sure how this would work outside the US, but as for here I think it would be a pretty good idea to send it around once edited.

I will happilly resend it if you would like to edit it for me. I would be very interested in hearing about any way that I can get involved with campaigning for our rights. Any ideas pm me or message me I have all day every day to send emails and letters. Even if it does fall on deaf ears at least I know in my heart I have tried.

emma

[solartrinity]

Just to let you know that I have editted my email and took out the rage parts and swearing and will be sending to all mps on monday in letter form, will keep you posted

emma

[FuBai]

Whilst I commend your obvious passion, the likley hood is that you will have done more harm than good. We are playing a political game and, whether you like it or not, it's at least 50% PR. If you want to get change going then volunteer Transform or ask them what you can do - they have a structured and respected campaign and they can steer you onto which forms of protest will be efficacious. Firstly e-mails are seen as less important by MPs because they can be easily bulk sent and spammed, so use letters, handwritten for preference. Others have said what I would say about swearing etc - as soon as you do so you get classed as being an irate and impolite person and they will almost certainly stop reading as soon as they find that objectionable language. Even the opening lines are abrupt and aggressive, where you actually want them to think your are sensitive and intelligent.

[solartrinity]

Suprisingly enough I didnt get a reply apart from one asking me for my address and what constituency I live in. I suppose it is only so that they can say oh well, it isnt where I operate so go to your own MP.

I am not very good at English grammer, never have been. I think that even though I havent managed to get anyone to reply to it maybe one at least may have read a bit of it before deleting it so at least i have made an effort to get my point over.

I just wanted to let my views be known to the top nobs running the show. Rememberence day is on sunday for all the troops who died in the world war for the future of the country. I feel its a discrace how the country has ended up after all those people gave thier lives and lost loved ones to fight for the freedom of the country. It really does frustrate me. Especially when the polititions on sunday will be wearing the poppys and going church on sunday and then sitting about on monday planning the next seige on some other innocent peoples country.

emma
xxxxx

peace

[rxbandit]

I wonder what would happen if someone went through the phone book and made various similar messages complaining about the drug problem, went through the phone book attaching various names and addresses and spent a lengthy amount of time until a large number of these letters were sent. would this make any sort of impact?

I know this is immoral and wrong and all of that but hypothetically would it do anything?

[Paracelsus]

I doubt it would make any impact. For example, politicians know that the majority of the US population agree with making medical marijuana available to those who need it.

As a side note, a similar method was used to persuade a governor to prevent a death sentence in John Grisham's The Chamber. The governor never found out that the hundreds of phone calls were fake, yet refused to pardon the accused person because of his ties to the victims' family.

[solartrinity]

How I see it theres not much action you can take personally to change the goverments minds other than keep on expressing your opinions in letters and emails. I know that the goverment have to reply to a letter but not an email. I know it is a lengthy process posting letters and printing them off but as long as i know i am doing the best i can to express my feelings it makes me feel a lot happier than doing nothing. The only other way to try and change things is to register as a party and get support and votes to be heard on a wider scale. I can remember someone standing as the 'raving lunatic party' ages ago and being on ballot papers, and actually got votes so anything is a possible. We all know the people running the goverment are a bunch of closed minded rich boys, the fact they got the job was from studying the law and goverment policies and then telling everyone what they wanted to hear about lower taxes, better schooling and more policing against the over exaggerated drug crime problem of youth of today. I would be interested in the amount of votes you would get if you stood up against the goverments out of date policies and laws and properly informed people about the issues with real research proof so that they had the evidence then to make thier own decisions. I dont know about trying to run for election, I think it is about £1000 to register your party and stand for a local election. I dont know what people would think of someone running for election who has bright pink hair, but i would give it a go. I may not be a highly educated politition but I known morals and live in the real world and treat people with respect and honesty, maybe if we had someone like that in the houses of parliment, even one seat, you would get a say and be able to air an opinion. Most of the house of lords is run by religious background x lawers and police, the same as judges in court and the research groups the goverment set up to do the last classification evidence. When the home secretary made fresh psilypsy (excuse spelling) mushrooms illegal it was due to the fact there was such an import of them being brought into the country and they couldnt contol it and he broke the protocol for passing such a law by not even consulting the research group of scientists for any research or evidence and he got away with it. To present there has only been one death from these mushrooms and that was someone who ate nearly his whole body weight of them, so not suprising. Its so frustrating that the goverment gets away with breaking its own rules and getting away with it, I dont mean to get on my soap box and rant but the way that they have dealt with the missing child benefit data discs was a breach in the data protection act and all they did was send a mass produced letter saying they are probably in the goverment building still and when I phoned to lodge a complaint I was told the department wasnt accepting any complaints so I couldnt have any say about the fact my 3 childrens details are somewhere lost along with my bank details and address. In the apology letter the acting chair explained about the data loss and then said 'this will not affect your benefits being paid out. Stuff my benefit money what about the wrong person getting my details and my children being at risk. Our rights are being taken away and theres nothing we can do about it.

A new law was passed to force anyone found to be an experimenter of drugs and also diagnosed with a mental disorder to be arrested and detained for them to be referred to rehab clinics and have no choice but to go along with it. There are two hospital buildings been set up so far for this rehab programme. The policy explained that duel diagnosed people were lightly to be from uneducated background involved in crime and violent and lightly to commit murder. The type of mental illness they are expressing is personality disorder of the worse case senario, Charles Manson was diagnosed with this very illness. I wonder does that mean that someone found to be taking drugs and suffering from post natal depression or panic attacks will be carted off in the back of a riot van and be treated like a Charles Manson? Details of the policy can be found on the goverments website under the group futurescope who are supposed to be treating people fairly in society and with respect over drug issues. The result of the rehabilitation programme was to move the person out of the area they lived in to a distant area so they didnt relapse back onto drugs again. How unrealistic is that? People with mental illness need care and support the same as someone with a broken leg or illness visiting the doctors. Seems the goverments promises have been broken yet again. The goverment were setting up a rewards programme for people willing to deal with duel diagnosis people as no one wants to take the job positions and deal with high risk unpredictable clients. It involved pay bonuses and incentives and also to be given a position as high standing people in society.

Happy to post links to the evidence of the above if anyone is interested in reading offical goverment meeting minutes
and the sly laws they are bringing in behind closed doors.

Sorry for the long post I just have studied these subjects so much and i want everyone to know what injustices are being made without our prior knowledge or to air our own opinions.

Emma

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[FuBai]

The Monster Raving Loony party are still a legitimate political party. Last election one of their manifesto pledges was to double the size of hospitals by erecting huge mirrors next to them.

You are right about the general ineffectiveness of un-cohesive small scale political action, which is why there are a lot of posts discussing how to get reform. In my opinion you, as an individual, should do the following if you are not willing to devote your life to it:

1) Donate to Transform, Drug Policy Alliance or the major drug legalisation pressure group in your country. Donations give these groups sufficient muscle to get media attention, or to buy it.

2) Write to your MP (/representative) and request a surgery session to discuss it. Make sure you follow the guidelines outlined on the Transform website and, perhaps, read some of my thread on how to win drugs debates.

3) Attend mass action initiatives such as marches etc

4) See something drug related in your local newspaper or media? Write in and voice your view, but make it specific to the issue in question. Be careful when you do this and grab only what you think you can get away with, you don't want to be sidelined as a nut.

5) Every time someone brings up drugs and you are in a position to debate it, do it. Follow the rules outlined in the Transform guide and on my thread, but make sure you convince as many of those around you (whilst not becoming "that drugs nut").

These are some pretty un-arduous things you can do whilst maintaining your current (read normal) life style. If you want to go beyond that volunteer for Transform or some other pressure group on the issue.

As for the rest of the diatribe I don't know where to begin, however in politics you can do one of two things - play by the rules and reform from the inside or smash the playing board and melt down the pieces. You can only do the second one with considerable money, support and/or military power, which means most of us have to play the game if they want reform put through. In short, only run in shouting if everyone knows you could have run in shooting (metaphorically obviously). People tell me that 84% of Americans want Medical Marijuana, however nothing is done about it. It's because those people passively want reform, they are not prepared to say "I will only vote for a party that will implement Medical Marijuana." So no reform occurs because there is no block vote in it, support is spread out an tenuous and those people will vote either Republican or Liberal Democrat based on their pre-conceived political views. It has to be the consensus of the swing voters, those people who are up for grabs when it comes to the votes in the next election; those are the people to target because their largely uninformed, wavering votes are what decide elections.

[fnord]

how exactly did you send it to the whole government?