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With the Gorton and Denton win, our opponents have been working overtime to misrepresent Green Party drugs policy. Heroin in corner shops? Crack for kids? Let's clear this up. 🧵

Heroin? NHS prescription, under medical supervision – not on shop shelves. Crack cocaine? Supervised clinical settings only. Cannabis? Licensed retail, like alcohol. Cocaine? Fixed doses from specialist pharmacies.

Last year, thousands of people died from drug-related causes in the UK. That's under prohibition – the system our opponents want to keep. Prohibition doesn't stop drug use. It just means people use drugs of unknown strength, cut with unknown substances, with no route to help.

So is our policy actually radical? Let's look at the evidence from countries that have already done what we're proposing. Spoiler: every major element of our policy has been tried and tested internationally. Here's what happened. 👇