It’s Saturday night in Manchester and I’m on my way to meet a group of men who say they’ve had enough of heroin users in their area. Drugs Map of Britain II: Manchester, Heroin Haters
Some violent shocking behaviour against the addicts. ibid.
Valium has been a silent partner … with many users craving a tranquillized existence. Drugs Map of Britain III: Scotland’s Valium Crisis
‘You’re wrapped in bubble-wrap and things don’t matter as much.’ ibid. addict
Not all the blue pills on the street contain genuine Valium. ibid.
In the USA there’s been a medicinal cannabis revolution. It is now legal in half the country’s fifty states to treat illness. In Britain the drug is illegal with the government saying it’s proven to damage mental and physical health … Many people believe in the medicinal power of cannabis. Drugs Map of Britain IV: Dying for Weed
There is a big demand all over the UK for his cannabis oils. ibid.
For years the rolling valleys and sprawling towns of South Wales have hidden a pervasive underground drugs scene. High levels of injecting mean thousands of users experience a serious wound or injury every year. Drugs Map of Britain V: Swansea: Injecting Gone Wrong
Britain’s love affair with ecstasy has lasted three decades … What started as a club drug has broken through the darkness and into streets, pubs and homes across the UK … But the pills in MDMA crystal are stronger than ever before. Drugs Map of Britain VI: Newcastle: Super-Strength Ecstasy
‘I hate when I’m like this. Can’t stay still.’ Drugs Map of Britain VII: Alcohol: Britain’s Most Harmful Drug
78% of deaths in Thames Reach Hostels are directly attributed to super-strength alcohol. ibid.
Victims believe the offender(s) to be under the influence of alcohol in 53% of all violent incidents. ibid. Public Health England
Kenneth has just picked up an emergency dose of Pregabalin from the chemist, a drug he’s prescribed to treat anxiety … In Northern Ireland prescriptions have increased by 27% in the last 6 years, and the drug is more widely prescribed here than any other region in the UK. Drugs Map of Britain VIII: Belfast Buds
Doctors have a history of prescribing drugs to people affected by the mental and physical trauma. ibid.
‘Fentanyl is taking the opioid epidemic to a new level of emergency.’ Drugs Map of Britain IX: Fentanyl: Deadlier than Heroin, US
The substance has now been linked to a recent spike in overdoses on UK soil. ibid.
‘Lost a lot of my good mates to it.’ ibid. user
In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared an all out War on Drugs. 35 years later over a million non-violent drug offenders live behind bars. American Drug War: The Last White Hope, 2007
I question the motives that go into making our modern drug laws. ibid.
It’s a massive deceptive; it’s a massive profit scheme. ibid.
The longest and most costly destructive war in American history. ibid.
Crack: It was like watching a strategically engineered ad campaign; talk about perfect product placement – did we mention it’s cheap and strong and very addictive? It’s only five dollars now so stay away from it! ibid.
Private Prisons: ‘It’s a slave-labour market.’ ibid. Tommy Chong
‘People in government bureaucracy are addicted to the drug war funding.’ ibid. government geezer
Every war has its casualties. The images of those who’ve suffered in the war against drugs have become as familiar as old pictures of the trenches from the First World War … In the war against drugs we lost touch with the truth a long time ago. Dispatches: Drugs: The Phony War, Channel 4 2001
Last year Britain spent £1.7 in the war against drugs. ibid.
This global campaign of prohibition is the most dishonest and destructive social policy of our time. ibid.
The strange and generally untold truth is that properly prescribed opiates like heroin are very safe drugs. The politicians have got it wrong. ibid.
Prohibition creates the very dangers it pretends to be removing. ibid.
We could call a halt to the whole war. ibid.
Not victims of drugs but victims of the war against drugs. ibid.
Social exclusion, crime, disease, death. ibid.
Psychedelia: the realm of ancient rituals, and a place where space and time bend for recreational drug users. LSD: the most infamous of all the hallucinogenic drugs once thought to be a magic bullet for curing mental disease become a catalyst for social change. Psychedelics are banned but the chemists don’t stop. Psychedelic Underworld, National Geographic 2017
LSD: Insight or Insanity? ibid. 1968 documentary
Psychedelics became a Schedule 1 drug. ibid.
[Nicholas] Sand: manufactured a 300 micro-gram hit of LSD said to have special karma: Orange Sunshine … ‘10 million doses per kilo x 14.’ ibid.
DMT trip lasts just 15 minutes. ibid.
Ecstasy causes tachycardia or raised heart rate. ibid.
The late-night streets of Britain now so full of drugs not even the dealers know them all: ‘… Have you got the triple sub? … Yellow Bentines …’ Brass Eye s1e2: Drugs, Channel 4 1997
‘I’ll give you thirty quid for one clerky cat. ibid.
It is legal to carry drugs if you’re not actually touching them. ibid.
It’s also legal to buy and sell drugs if you do it through a mandrill. ibid.
A new legal drug from Czechoslovakia called Cake. ibid.
It stimulates the part of the brain called Shatner’s Basoon. ibid.
The company’s used drugs to improve its performance for the past seventeen years. Brass Eye s1e6: Decline