Crime - part deux.

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Should crime happen

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Welshie said:
40+ years is a hell of a sentence.

We have had soft sentences in the UK for ages now though, it was ridiculous. How many repeat offenders do they need?
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I don't think the dad wants him to be allowed out at all, even if he will be 71 before he sets foot on the streets again.

Think we need to start building some detention centres for the minor crimes, free up the prison space. Some are just endless motoring offences, we've got to find a better way of dealing with these, because it's just constant reoffending, I'm not talking about parking fines and being a couple of miles over the speed limit btw.
 
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brb said:
We need to legalise cannabis, that will free up a lot of police time, prison space and raise taxes. Set it up so that it makes it pointless growing it.
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I'd go the other way and encourage smokers to grow their own.

Wherever cannabis has been legalised the prices have shot up. At first everybody has flocked to the shops/dispensaries. Once the novelty has worn off, most people who have little money have gone back to the black market (street dealers) where it's cheaper and started to fund the criminals, again.

If people could have a license to grow up to 4 cannabis plants for personal use, then you cut all that out. In theory, you should make more income on taxes through the energy companies.
 
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Saff said:
I'd go the other way and encourage smokers to grow their own.

Wherever cannabis has been legalised the prices have shot up. At first everybody has flocked to the shops/dispensaries. Once the novelty has worn off, most people who have little money have gone back to the black market (street dealers) where it's cheaper and started to fund the criminals, again.

If people could have a license to grow up to 4 cannabis plants for personal use, then you cut all that out. In theory, you should make more income on taxes through the energy companies.
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I like the idea of the energy companies paying the tax but surely they do anyway via the energy used by large producers in a country with our climate.
Better to sell it cheaper due to legal availability than the pushers and tax it whilst still getting the tax from the energy companies that provide the power.
 
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Diego said:
I like the idea of the energy companies paying the tax but surely they do anyway via the energy used by large producers in a country with our climate.
Better to sell it cheaper due to legal availability than the pushers and tax it whilst still getting the tax from the energy companies that provide the power.
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There's a few million cannabis smokers in this country, according to sources.

If 250k of them started to grow cannabis their energy bills would go through the roof. The companies would make a hell of a lot more and would therefore be liable to pay more tax.

It would be incredibly difficult to undercut the street dealer. With all of the overheads, if they were to undercut the street dealer, who has none, they'd not have a viable business. If the government were running it, it would cost the taxpayer to cover the losses.
 
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