The Green Party has a smart and reasoned approach to recreational drug issues that focuses on harm minimisation and is in line with the Law Commission’s 2011 report on controlling and regulating recreational drugs.
The Government’s current policy in relation to drugs is 35 years out of date and fails to minimise harm. Instead, it creates a further set of problems: resources are directed into criminalising people rather than providing them with the medical help they most need and there hasn’t been enough done to protect children from the harmful effects of drug use. Our policy would go a long way to fixing these problems.
Our solutions include:
- More funding for drug education programmes in schools and communitie
- Establishing a ministerial advisory group to evaluate and improve drug education
- Prioritising the prosecution of crimes such as violent offences ahead of personal cannabis possession
- Enabling doctors to prescribe cannabis products for severely ill patients
