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Newsbrief:
British
Opposition
Promises
Tough
New
Drug
War
if
Elected
3/4/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/377/ukcons.shtml
As British Conservatives
gear up for elections in May, they are staking out a tough anti-drug position.
So is Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labor Party, but the Tories are
trying to one-up them. At a February 23 news conference, Tory party
leader Michael Howard laid out his anti-drug program, emphasizing plans
to enact mandatory minimum seven-year prison sentences for three-time drug
dealing offenders.
"People will face a clear
choice at the next election: tougher sentences and more police with the
Conservatives or lenient sentences and more talk from Mr. Blair and the
Liberal Democrats," Howard said, attempting to trump tough anti-drug talk
from Blair in recent weeks.
Howard also criticized the
reclassification of marijuana under Labor, blaming the government for sending
young people "mixed messages" about drug use. If elected, the Tories
would reverse that decision, he said.
Howard promised a massive
expansion of drug treatment facilities, which his government would use
as a hammer against drug use. "Of course some children will get into
drugs. We have a duty to offer them the chance to change -- the chance
to go straight," he said. "So a Conservative government will give
them a choice: rehab or prison."
Howard said he would expand
drug treatment beds ten-fold. "In Britain today there are fewer than
2,500 residential rehab places available for young people. We will
expand this massively, providing 25,000 residential places for hard drug
users where they can spend six-months getting intensive treatment to get
them off drugs. "That's enough to help 50,000 addicts a year.
It will allow us, over the course of a year, to treat every young teenage
drug addict in Britain."
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