"I've actually never taken a drug in my life, or even drunk alcohol, but I still don't sit here as the fun police,"
"It's about legalising and regulating. If someone has a problematic relationship to drugs, then surely the answer is to make sure they're seen by a medical professional who can help them."
"We've had ministers both from the Labour and the Conservative government who have openly said on record that they've taken drugs, yet they're putting in prison people who have taken drugs, and very often again, it's disproportionately young black and brown people."
Zack Polanski said he has never taken drugs or drunk alcohol. He supports legalising and regulating drugs and favors treating problematic drug use with medical professionals rather than imprisonment. He criticized politicians who admit past drug use while supporting incarceration as hypocritical. He argued that a public-health approach is needed to prevent deaths. He said illegal drug enforcement is racialised, with young black people far more likely to be stopped and searched than white peers. He rebuked Keir Starmer for mocking the Greens as 'high on drugs' and for making jokes about Putin and Russia while ministers were absent to defend their parties. He initially evaded a direct answer about legalising class A drugs including heroin and cocaine.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]