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.
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.
I agree. I'm not into myself, but honestly if they want to do it and it's not harming a soul then why the **** are we wasting all this time, effort and money on this.
I know why they don't want to legalise it, I think it's because the intention is to make us a smoke free state in the very near future. I think we are probably following something like this model... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...orld-first-tobacco-law-to-ban-smoking-by-2025
They could also legalise prostitution, make it safer for everyone, and as a bonus HMRC would officially be a bunch of pimps
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.
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.
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.
There's a photo doing the rounds of one of those with his kegs down, tweet as been deleted but not sure I should post the photo, could get the board into trouble
