there was only UK drugs czar who didn’t even last the entire length of the Blair era as there were so many mixed messages being given out back then that he became a laughing stock and resigned when the Blair government experimented with making cannabis Class C (a flawed half measure that failed after a few years)
Even most of the Asian countries have stopped using the death penalty against drug users/dealers (only ID has reintroduced it and they did at least have a proper democratic referendum about doing so and even then its use seems to be confined now to larger level dealers).
The last time I was nicked and cautioned for (a very small amount) of drugs I could actually sense the cops were genuinely feeling a bit awkward themselves about the whole situation; although they had kept an intelligence file on me since 1992 when it was thought I was linked to middle level dealing; it was clear to them I wasn’t currently doing any of that (I never have done, although I did purchase bulk amounts simply because its cheaper that way). they knew I came from a decent family upbringing and lived then lived with my family in an affluent middle class area of my town; and anything more than a caution could easily have driven me towards far worse crime if I hadn’t been able to get work because of it. This caution (and another I got from Metpol some years earlier) ended up getting struck out anyway due to the flawed intelligence file and other paperwork errors making the lot unreliable – I’m still amazed to this day my CRB came back clear.
