I was still Fasting Archie Layout of Poll is a bit poor for Saff's usual standards...even Sucky got it mixed up.
Yes for everything. I'm not a big drinker so it's my unwind time. Alcohol is obviously far more destructive, seeing people eat 8 pints and get into a bar fight. On the other hand, the worst thing that could happen after 8 joints is you get too ****ed to remember the oven is on and you've burnt your Findus crispy pancakes. Eventually money will talk and like alcohol, the govt will realise how fruitful legalisation would be economically when all that cash isn't lost to a black market.
A Spurs supporting mate is coming round mine to watch it, so if I support Liverpool, I’ll be quiet about it. I hope you both lose really. But ill offer a begrudging good luck to both sides
lots of tax money to be had, plus no need for drug squads, no gang wars over drug sales, clean drugs.
In all seriousness, the Yanks should have learned the lesson from prohibition in the 20s; they made booze illegal, and all that happened was the whole country went on the piss, and the Mafia built up their power base. Now that the Yanks are - finally- legalising the herb state by state, the rest of the world will soon follow suit.
Ain't my fault you can't do a poll properly @Simple Saffy Who puts a question as an answer ffs. In a stoner thread too! Its a ****ing fix bruh @Spurlock
Cannabis has only been illegal since the end of the alcohol prohibition in the USA. Why ? cos the man in charge of the war on alcohol was scared of losing his job http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-i...a-is-banned_b_9210248.html?pbx=25&te=Upworthy : Across the world, more and more people are asking: Why is marijuana banned? Why are people still sent to prison for using or selling it? Most of us assume it's because someone, somewhere sat down with the scientific evidence, and figured out that cannabis is more harmful than other drugs we use all the time -- like alcohol and cigarettes. Somebody worked it all out, in our best interest. But when I started to go through the official archives -- researching my bookChasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs -- to find out why cannabis was banned back in the 1930s, I discovered that's not what happened. Not at all. In 1929, a man called Harry Anslinger was put in charge of the Department of Prohibition in Washington, D.C. But alcohol prohibition had been a disaster. Gangsters had taken over whole neighborhoods. Alcohol -- controlled by criminals -- had become even more poisonous. So alcohol prohibition finally ended -- and Harry Anslinger was afraid. He found himself in charge of a huge government department, with nothing for it to do. Up until then, he had said that cannabis was not a problem. It doesn't harm people, he explained, and "there is no more absurd fallacy" than the idea it makes people violent.
They don't really care about the money per se, it's the votes they crave, and stoners are probably the biggest section of the population that can't be arsed to vote.
I also read that many decades ago big business feared hemp due to how cheap it was to make paper, thus endangering similarly invested organisations. Don't know how much truth there is to that.
There's much truth to that mate. Lots of industries would be threatened from the production of hemp/cannabis not just the *** and beer companies. who often fund anti cannabis campaigns and groups and such. GW Pharma has a massive contract from the govt to grow cannabis and produce sativex and make a profit on a plant/medicine anyone can grow at home
Shifty business. A former colleague had a mate who used to make his own cannabis oil years ago when the health benefits with cancer/epilepsy etc was less talked about. He used to give it out to people in need for free. He was found dead after a while, the news said that the equipment in his "cannabis farm" exploded. My mate insists with the equipment he had such an accident was an impossible and he must have been bumped off by authorities who had intimidated him about it multiple times.
I got into researching the medicinal side of weed when my old dear got cancer years ago. I don't think it will ever be sold here like it is in the states simply because of big business and mainly big pharma groups. Medicinally it's a no brainer. It works for so many things and the benefits far far outweigh the bad.
I think it was alledged to be one guy who owned a paper mill who was either a politician, or well connected, forcing the closure of hemp oriented competition. Also read it was a racial thing, fear of the blacks, jazz music with it's connection to weed corrupting the young whites. I think they're probably all pro-weed propaganda Bs, more likely it was just a carpet ban on everything remotely enjoyable due to the temperance movement, which was politically strong enough to cause prohibition.
