I’ve Never Taken Drugs or Drunk Alcohol, Says Zack Polanski

THE GUARDIAN: Green party leader wants to legalise all drugs, regulate their use and not be ‘the fun police’

The leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski, has said he has never taken drugs or “even drunk alcohol” in his life, but wants to legalise all drugs and regulate their use.

Polanski was asked on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme if he had taken drugs at university. “I’ve actually never taken a drug in my life, or even drunk alcohol, but I still don’t sit here as the fun police,” he said. “I very clearly believe people should be able to do what they want to do. It just wasn’t for me.”

He told Kuenssberg that politicians who admitted taking drugs and then advocated for incarcerating drug users were taking a “hypocritical approach”, when a “public health approach” was needed to prevent deaths.

“It’s about legalising and regulating. If someone has a problematic relationship to drugs then surely the answer is to make sure they’re seen by a medical professional who can help them,” Polanski said. » | Donna Ferguson | Sunday, February 1, 2026

Legalise drugs? How absurd! How about you clowns stop the war on smoking cigarettes first? Talk about killing joy, you are the killjoys killing it! I’ll tell you one thing for nothing: Were I to be a father, I’d prefer my son to come home and tell me he had taken up smoking cigarettes than come home all tattooed up, pierced God knows where, and high on drugs! Little wonder people are pissed off with democracy! — © Mark Alexander