Thread by @OzKaterji

I don't know about you Tim mate but I choose to judge a policy on its progressiveness based on an empirical analysis of the more than 100 years we've spent fighting a losing drug war through criminalisation with no positive benefit to society whatsoever.

https://twitter.com/forwardnotback/status/1425103750465732613?s=20

If you are able to look at the results of our drug policies over the past century and still think they have had any progressive benefit for British society, then I suspect you are either a deeply reactionary individual at heart or simply aren't very bright. Take your pick Tim.

I just spent the weekend at Wilderness Festival with 20,000 mostly posh white folk. You can guarantee if they were the ones being disproportionately imprisoned for their ubiquitous mediocre cocaine habits people like Tim would probably be singing from a different hymn sheet.

Anyway, ignore Tim. Legalise drugs, tax them highly and re-invest that revenue in healthcare and addiction programmes, that's what a progressive drug policy looks like, not sending teenagers from ethnic minority backgrounds to prison for holding an ounce of grass.