We have drug testing in sport and many other work places. Why don’t our mp’s face random drug tests, with their seat going to a by election for any that fail.

Sport - to stop cheating

Construction sites - to stop people dying

Mps- why?

People claiming benefits next?

They are the people who make the laws, if they are not able to stick to them they don’t deserve to hold such a privileged position.

Sport and construction are not the only sectors to look upon unfavourably on drug taking, most public sector workers would lose their jobs if they were caught doing so.

So they'll legalised heroin and crack on.

If only we'd have done it in the 40's.

Wed be speaking German

Yep. Drugs test once a week for benefits claimants.

The hypocrisy is what bothers me - Michael Gove for example, introduced a teachers code of conduct, which included provision that any teacher found to have used class A drugs, would be banned from teaching for life.

It seems that in this country, cowed and subservient as we are, being posh is a licence to do whatever you like; drunkenness, racism, yobbish behaviour and casual drug use are all seen as somehow more acceptable, if you went to a private school and can pepper your language with Latin phrases. Bizarre.

Spot on, Bren.
Was he (Gove) also Minister for Justice), what kind of example was he setting or, had he given up taking class A drugs by that point ?

It's quite increddible that he is allowed to remain in the leadership race, unless of course, drug taking is so prevalent amongst the Troy elite, that there would be nobody left.

The main issue here is that it wasn't recreational drugs, taken as a student who, "didn't know ant better", they were taken as a grown man, who knew exactly what the score was (deliberate pun)

With regards Gove, isn’t it funny that it only comes out once he joins the leadership race to be PM?

We have a cocaine epidemic in this country, it’s a rarity for people not to sniff it there’s days IMO.

What is really strange is that this didn't come to light last time he was vying for the leadership.

Also it was an interview to the Daily Mail which isn’t it his wife works for? Seems strange but then again Gove is, you only need to see him run or clap to see that he is not from this planet.

Not when you know that someone was about to reveal it to the press anyway - so he's used his wife and Mr Murdoch, to whom he has always been a faithful lapdog, to try and get in front of the story and manage the message in his own way.

Good point.

Drug use should be decriminalised, not further outlawed and greater punishable penalties being enforced for their use (and don’t mix up use with growing, dealing and trafficking - they should still be criminalised).

The more you restrict and outlaw drug use, the more underworld activity there is. More illegal money changing hands, more robberies, more kidnappings, more violence, more murders, more health complications and more of the dark world activity (human trafficking, child exploitation and abuse etc.) due to the underworld growing and darker areas growing within it with people/organisations becoming more secretive and getting away with more because these people/organisations activities are harder to detect.

Since Portugal decriminalised drug use in 2009 there have been far fewer robberies, kidnappings, murders, STIs, drug related diseases (infections through sharing needles, for example), overdoses and less underworld activity.

Since when have the people that make the laws ever stuck to any of them?

Enacting illegal wars, illegal financial activity and going against what they said they’d do in their manifestos are far more serious crimes than the odd joint or line they’ve had in their past.

I completely agree and would support the decriminalisation of drugs.

However if the lawmakers (mps) aren’t willing to do this, which they are not, we should at least make them stick to the laws they enforce on others. This is why I suggested drug testing them, as they are known drug users.