In 1997 the Conservative government passed a 'three strikes' policy which imposed a minimum sentence of seven years for those convicted for a third time of drug trafficking involving class A drugs. Soon after, the Labour party passed legislation that enabled Judges to reduce the sentences in cases they find to be unjust.
22% Yes |
78% No |
22% Yes |
49% No |
1% Yes, they should be removed from society |
18% No, first offence should result in a mandatory rehabilitation program, further offences result in jailtime |
6% No, we should decriminalise most drugs |
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6% No, only if they were arrested for trafficking |
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@9K6HZTR2mos2MO
Depends on the drug. Cannabis has many health properties. Where as cocain should be fined and put to work
@98CPNG41yr1Y
No, we should decriminalise all drugs, something which has proven to remove the risk of gangs many drug related crimes in Switzerland and Portugal.
@986YLQP1yr1Y
No unless it is repeated offence or a severe instance
@9866KWG1yr1Y
No, and all other jail sentences should be elminated too
@97YSRL31yr1Y
No, we should decriminalise all drugs and abolish prisons
@96X79XZ1yr1Y
Give them a fair trial first
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Ecuador's president has ordered that criminal gangs be "neutralized" after days of violence culminated in an attack on a television studio.Masked gunmen broke into public television channel TC's live studio during a broadcast, forcing staff to the floor.Police made 13 arrests following the attack, which injured two employees.At least 10 people have been killed since a 60-day state of emergency began in Ecuador on Monday.The emergency was declared after a notorious gangster vanished from his prison cell. It is unclear whether the incident at the TV studio in Guayaquil was related to the disappearance from a prison in the same city of the boss of the Choneros gang, Adolfo Macías Villamar, or Fito as he is better known.President Noboa said on Tuesday that an "internal armed conflict" now existed in the country and he was mobilising the armed forces to carry out "military operations to neutralise" what he called "transnational organised crime, terrorist organisations and belligerent non-state actors"
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From a thriving fentanyl business with Mexican cartels, to connections in illegal marijuana busts across the nation, alarms are being raised about Beijing's fingerprints being found on the US drug addiction crisis.The Drug Enforcement Administration has substantial evidence dating back a decade of Beijing’s role in flooding U.S. citieswith a wide range of addictive and harmful drugs.“I'm just saying that from a strategic plan of the CCP, it's a brilliant concept that if we can get into America and sell this very pure marijuana and destroy Americans' brains, so then they go to pills and other drugs, that's a brilliant, unrestricted warfare,” former DEA Chief of Special Operations Derek Maltz Sr. told Just the News on Wednesday.“When you look at the Chinese Communist Party. And you look at the role of China and their criminal networks in the overall drug crisis in America – because people are not connecting the dots – this is way bigger than just a bunch of, you know, illegally selling marijuana up in Maine. First of all, it's all over the country. It's not just Maine, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington State, California. And, you know, all different states,” Maltz said during a wide-ranging interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast.
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