Double standards for drugs

If you aren't a citizen you get deported after a 12 month sentence black or white.

The key point is they aren't citizens.

If you aren't a citizen you get deported after a 12 month sentence black or white.

The key point is they aren't citizens.

Now I'm white, but it angers me so much in my school when I see rich, white kids talk brazenly about cocaine and other drugs they take, when I know almost for a fact they'll never get stopped and searched, imprisoned etc, whereas as we've recently seen, black people guilty of the same offense end up being deported. Now I know some of them had done other things, but it seems ridiculous to deport them, but that's another issue for another day. Anyone else agree with me on this one?

Now I'm white, but it angers me so much in my school when I see rich, white kids talk brazenly about cocaine and other drugs they take, when I know almost for a fact they'll never get stopped and searched, imprisoned etc, whereas as we've recently seen, black people guilty of the same offense end up being deported. Now I know some of them had done other things, but it seems ridiculous to deport them, but that's another issue for another day. Anyone else agree with me on this one?

But white people have far more fredom to use drugs. They're just as or more likely to commit drugs offensese as blacks but far less likely to be arrested.

These are the most recent figures I could find on the matter.

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/health/alcohol-smoking-and-drug-use/illicit-drug-use-among-adults/latest

So Black people are more likely than any other ethnicity to use drugs.
However ethnic minorities are overrepresented in the CJS for drug offences.

County lines gangs are a terrible problem and are affecting the whole country and abusing young vulnerable people. I know it's controversial to say, but these posh white kids are just taking it for their own use, they're not part of a drug network dealing/supplying and knifing people.

Doesn't say anything in particular about cocaine though, which is typically associated with the wealthy.

That's a really old stereotype IMO, crap coke because mainstream well over a decade ago, It is basically Burberry™

Now I'm white, but it angers me so much in my school when I see rich, white kids talk brazenly about cocaine and other drugs they take, when I know almost for a fact they'll never get stopped and searched, imprisoned etc, whereas as we've recently seen, black people guilty of the same offense end up being deported. Now I know some of them had done other things, but it seems ridiculous to deport them, but that's another issue for another day. Anyone else agree with me on this one?

Two people being guilty of the same offence does not mean the circumstances surrounding the offences are the same. There are many factors that can influence a sentence. What quanitity of drugs were they carrying? Were they purely for personal use or was there evidence of drug dealing? What were they doing before the police approached them? Did they have a weapon? Did they comply with the police or attempt to flee? Do they have any previous convictions?

The circumstances being, one was black, one was white.

No, in all seriousness I do understand, but if people didn't use the drug in the first place, traditionally white, middle class people like Michael Gove et al there wouldn't be any supplying, meaning people wouldn't have to carry weapons, meaning people wouldn't have to murder.....you get the idea

Doesn't say anything in particular about cocaine though, which is typically associated with the wealthy.

Those figures are just the tip of the iceberg, there are probably more white people who take drugs.

If posh white kids weren't taking cocaine, there would be no drug supply networks because the demand would not exist. And I know for a fact that lots of white kids - rich or not - are involved in drug dealing etc, I just know that they are far less likely to get profiled than black people.

Regardless of whether they were UK citizens or not, most of these people had lived in Britain for most of their lives. These people are not just recent arrivals causing trouble. They have served their time in prison. What's to stop them from just coming back illegally when they've deported them?

That is such an outdated stereotype, cocaine like cannabis is a drug that is used at every level of society. From your rich clubs to your local town boozer, cocaine is everywhere.

There is always demand for cocaine regardless of "posh white kids".

If you have lived in Britain most of your life then you can apply for citizenship through naturalisation. If you have failed to do that then you only have yourself to blame. They can certainly try to come back illegally but we do have a Border Force who are more than happy to deport them again.

It is starting to be used outside of the middle class, but most things start off in the middle class and then stream down into other sections of society.

It is starting to be used outside of the middle class, but most things start off in the middle class and then stream down into other sections of society.