I have to admit I have been enjoying seeing that class traitor Alan Johnson being exposed as the megalomaniac idiot that he is over his sacking of drugs advisor, Professor Nutt, for daring to disagree with him about drug classification and their relative dangers. After all how could a scientist possibly be better informed than a former postman.

Now Boredom Groan has weighed in saying "It's right to say that drugs can cause such damage, particularly when dealers are pushing drugs on young people and making them victims of a cruel trade"

So its right to spread hysterical nonsense that will make youngsters think that everything the government says about drugs is rubbish to stop them buying drugs from criminals? Sorry that is just daft, when I was a teenager I was told all kinds of bollocks about how smoking a bit of dope would inevitably lead to heroin and death in the gutter. It didn't stop me trying things at the time or thinking that most adults were idiots who just reiterated nonsense they could not back up from personal experience. If anything the idea that "responsible grown ups" like parents, teachers and politicians didn't approve just made us want to do it all the more, just the same as their attitudes to loud music, sex, smoking and drinking made those things cool too.

So Gordon Brown is talking out of his arse to suggest that by sending out a strong message young people will be put off using drugs. Politicians just don't get it that people can tell when they are being peddled half truths and lies.

As to making youngsters victims of a cruel trade all I can say is present government policy is driving them into the arms of criminals who do not discriminate on the grounds of age and have a vested interest in encouraging the use of more dangerous addictive drugs. Government policy clearly isn't working anyway, as despite the millions of pounds worth of seizures their PR people blurt on about there are still dealers out there doing very well from the trade. Millions of people across all classes are still using drugs for leisure purposes despite the government's hardline policy so why not bring it out in the open and decriminalise soft drugs so supply can be licensed, regulated and taken out of the hands of organised criminals.