Peter Reynolds

Crispin Blunt MP

If you want something slightly less psychoactive than poppers, I suggest you try a crack pipe.

Seriously, poppers produce an instantaneous high as powerful and intense as anything I have ever known. Cannabis, alcohol, even cocaine are mild and gentle compared to the rush that you get from inhaling the vapour from a bottle of poppers.  Maybe crack or crystal meth are stronger.  I don’t claim knowledge at that extreme end of drugs experiences.

It’s well established fact that successive UK governments are dishonest and corrupt on drugs policy.  You cannot trust anything the Home Office says about drugs.  The reality of the policies of both Labour and Tory governments is that they maximise harm and cause enormous damage to our society as well as individuals.

The announcement today that poppers are to be excluded from the Psychoactive Substances Act because they are ‘not psychoactive’ is as ludicrous a statement as ever made by any government anywhere.  See minister Karen Bradley’s announcement here. 

The Psychoactive Substances Act is universally recognised as the most ridiculous and scientifically-illiterate legislation ever passed by Parliament – universal that is with the exception of the slippery fools that sit in the House of Commons. Most of them have no idea at all of what they are doing on drugs policy and their only concern is to appease the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and the hysteria drummed up by the prohibition lobby.  However, when one of their own, Crispin Blunt, MP for Reigate, complains about his drug of choice being banned, in record time the Home Office has obtained fake scientific advice and reversed its decision to ban poppers. Meanwhile, benign, largely beneficial, mild and virtually harmless cannabis remains banned, even for those in desperate need to relieve their pain, suffering and disability.

Don’t misunderstand me, I don’t think poppers should be banned.  They are known as a sex aid amongst gay men as they relax the anal sphincter, enabling easier ‘backdoor’ sex.  There’s a good argument that this helps to prevent injury and therefore infection but they are also an intense sexual stimulant.  I can confirm they are great fun for straight sex too.

I’m very pleased that Crispin Blunt will continue to have access to his drug of choice and I have no argument with him at all.  He is an MP who is on the record as supporting cannabis law reform, particularly for medicinal use.  It’s the sickening, dishonest and corrupt conduct of Home Office ministers that must be condemned.

I’d like to see the craven fools at the Home Office take a big whack off a bottle of poppers and then say they aren’t psychoactive.  Black is white and pigs fly over Marsham Street when it comes to drugs.