However, we would not oppose the acute treatment and rehabilitation of those injured while playing sports. Many sports in fact carry higher statistical risks of death and injury than many forms of drug-taking. When a dance-drug user takes ecstasy, he's statistically 700 times less likely to die than a parachute jumper. This is despite the fact that prohibition escalates and enhances the potential health and social risks of drug use. Where drug users face difficulties, they would be better managed in a climate free of judgment and punishment.
Mainstream culture borrows freely from drug culture.
Yet New Labour's leaders instinctively scapegoat drug users. Many dance-drug users languish in British prisons for up to five years, for buying the equivalent of a round of drinks. In Chemical Britannia, the drug culture creates significant wealth for both illicit and legitimate businesses, while expecting the consumers to live with a constant fear of exposure and discrimination. The move toward routine use of drug screening by the government and companies threatens our rights to drive and to be employed, despite the fact that a period of intoxication may have taken place more than a month prior to the test. This singles us out for persecution.