57: Make all drugs legal & abolish prisons: Chris Daw QC

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🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Top barrister Chris Daw QC talks about how more and more people are being incarcerated with tougher sentences. Being tough on crime is a vote winner – it appeals to our primal urges as well as our sense of schadenfreude – there but for the grace of god go I - punish them! But there’s sufficient evidence that such tough sentences and appalling prison conditions in the US and the UK in particular lead to more crime, making the world a less safe place for you and your family. Thanks to today's sponsor, VPN Express - sign up with a discount on https://vpnexpress.com/edge Buy Chris' book and subscribe/follow him here: Chris Daw QC Links: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Justice-Trial-Radical-Solutions-Breaking/dp/1472977882 https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisDawQC https://twitter.com/crimlawuk Andrew Gold Links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://patreon.com/andrewgold http://andrewgoldpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.0	If as a society, with our eyes wide open, we choose through the ballot box to have ever longer sentences and ever more vindictive punishments, provided we know as a result of those
1:16.6	policies that I am 50% more likely to be murdered and my daughter is 50% more likely to be raped or my son is 50% more likely to be raped,
1:27.0	then I would just about accept that that's democracy and action.
1:30.2	It would still be wrong. Hope you're all doing well on this fine summer's day,
1:36.0	or winter if you're in the southern hemisphere, as many of you are,
1:39.0	or also winter if you're listening to this six months later then it came out.
1:44.0	And I hope you're all staying out of trouble too.
1:46.0	As today's guest, Chris DorQC, will tell us,
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