Why though?

Sitting here Waiting on some choccy to cool I cant help but think about the times we have moved into, how each of us tends not to look up at the world around us to worried if the police are behind us or has a neighbour, stranger or friend made that call. ....




The habits and practices we embrace are seen all to often by strangers and neighbours no matter how careful we think we have been, so doubt sets in and we divide ourselves from the communities around us. Free from this and once known to everyone however this has many effects dependent on law and the community you live with, after working with the police and antisocial behaviour teams throughout the last 5 years or so and as a member of a community group, seeing and hearing first hand what happens in the endless fight against people using drugs other than alcohol and tobacco, I have come to the firm conclusion that more harm is caused by fighting against the use of drugs than it does in preventing harm.

The drugs still flow the grow ops get smaller and more widespread in order to keep the chains supplied, more of our youth end up selling off their goods or get involved in crime in order to support the high price of cannabis. Many will go on to low level dealing to supply themselves and a few friends, from this point onwards we have youth & dogs patrolling our communities keeping themselves high looking after the little patches they wander around in many moving into other drugs as the partnerships grow and the ladders are climbed, we hear it every day kids with guns organised crime supplying them with guns to look after themselves, the commodities are worth so much the drugs must be protected from ourselves.... what a dizzying height we have reached in the management of people and drugs, a law that is blind to liberty and when practiced creates many times the problems in its wake.

This is me

My name is John Ellis, for the last few years Ive worked with many local groups and service providers in bringing about a cohesive community, by trying to change the attitudes of people towards Cannabis and other drugs. I make sure that everyone I come across knows I use cannabis and what I use it for.

I tend to do most of my blogging at the BBC through Mark Easton were I used to blog under the pen name CommunityCriminal, now its time to drop the chard and face the public and government face to face. This is my first attempt at my own blog were I hope to give people an insight into the problems we face as communities while drugs cause people to remain abused under MODA71.

Well thats started till next time..