Police join ranks of the dope deniers

ONE by one, respectable and respected organisations in this country become mouthpieces for the well-funded and cynical campaign for drug liberalisation. This happens even though evidence of the grave dangers of marijuana grows by the day.

The latest citadel to fall is the Police Federation, a major catch for these people. Sergeant Simon Kempton, who speaks for that organisation on drug matters, called for an ‘honest and open debate based on results because prohibition has not worked’.

This is the standard fake claim peddled incessantly by the liberalisers, who use the word ‘prohibition’ to make an entirely false parallel between Britain’s drug laws and the failed US attempt to ban alcohol nearly a century ago.

He also made the usual fatuous claim that if police stopped enforcing the drug laws they would be free to pursue supposedly more important crimes.

Actually, the problem is that the police stopped seriously enforcing the drug-possession laws decades ago. And there is no sign that doing so has made them more effective against any other sort of crime. Rather the opposite.

If Sergeant Kempton really wants an open and honest debate on this subject, I challenge him to hold one with me, in front of his members.