Johnny Depp’s recent trial comes to mind – he openly admitted to doing cocaine but as far as I’m aware no action was taken
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Possessing these drugs might be illegal but having them in your system isn’t illegal unless your in public and being antisocial enough to warrant the polices attention. Criminalising having drugs in your system creates a fear amongst users who are in medical trouble to avoid seeking help due to fears telling the ambo dispatcher that there high and having an adverse reaction ie chest pain after taking cocaine, will result in the cops being called aswell as the paramedics. When this stigma exists, drug associated deaths go through the roof and people lose loved ones. It’s morbid but true. Some counties in America have grey lines about this with underage drinking which has caused big problems because cops have been sent to scenes where a friend has called an ambo for there friend whose unresponsive and vomiting in there sleep after sculling a bottle of spirits, and so other teenagers have been scared to call ambos for there drunk friends and boom, friend dies from OD on alcohol
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