It really makes me sick that after the loss of 25million British peoples details by Revenues and Customs the man who was responsible for it(or the man who at least took responsibility for it)Paul Gray is now in another job at the cabinet office on exactly the same wage!
This is just thirteen days after the scandal and his resignation from his old post. Now hold on a second It took me about a month and a half to get my shitty job and that included a written application and two interviews. So how can one of the top jobs in the country be given to someone in just under two weeks! If this is not corruption then what is? This guy obviously resigned to protect those higher up i.e Alistair Darling and was rewarded by getting to keep his civil service job and wage. Surely for a job of that profile and responsibilty an application should have been made by Paul Gray followed by a series of 'extensive' interviews conducted by the home Office and this would have took much longer than 13days to achieve. This stinks of the rich old boys network to me and this guy should have been SACKED and not allowed to resign!!! i know if I did my job wrong i would be fired, not given a nice resignation package. The civil service and government just blatantly tells lie after lie, it is so two faced. IT MAKES ME ANGRY!!!!!!!!!

So why isn't marijuana legal?
is it any worse than alcohol?
NO its not. I'm not going to espouse the same arguments we've all heard a million times but it just seems to me that it would be commonsense to legalise a plant that grows naturally and has probably been used as a recreational drug longer than alcohol. In fact to the best of my knowledge Marijuana was only made illegal about 50 years ago(in Britain). You may have realised that yes i smoke marijuana. In fact i smoke at least one spliff a day everyday and i have done for about 5 years. I'm not proud of this and i do realise its pretty detrimental to my physical and mental health. At the same time though I would have to argue that it would not be as detrimental as if i had drank a pint of beer or a single measure of spirit everyday. In fact, probably due to the amount of cannabis I smoke, i hardly ever drink a drop of alcohol.
so, why isn't ecstasy legal?
Is it any worse than alcohol? NO it isn't. This really baffles me why there is such a stigma surrounding ecstasy when it is probably one of the safest drugs you can take. There are about 3 fatalities a year as a result of ecstasy. Compared to alcohol, cocaine, crack cocaine and heroine that is a tiny number. Where I come from you can get about 3 pills of 'supposed' ecstasy for £10, this of course depends on who you get it off. Now I personally would only take a max of two pills in a night, although plenty of people take alot more I feel that is a sensible limit. So basically you can have a night out for about £20(including water, taxis etc) compared to the £50-£60 alot of people spend on alcohol.
My point with this is drugs can wreck families and relationships if used in bad ways. For instance whereas i believe its safe to take pills I wouldn't turn myself into a vegetable by taking them every weekend or every time I went out like some people do(of course people also do this with alcohol and every other drug). If people had a better knowledge and understanding of all different drugs then we could all have a much safer experience with them. I believe this can be done through legalisation of all drugs.
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