Best benefit would be less kids in black tea Joe’s and hoodies , and less ‘pizza’ deliveries , safer on the paths - no bloody cyclists !!
Im speaking anecdotally of course but I’ve been around friends that have taken whatever they want whenever they’ve wanted to. From a consumption point of view the risk is really minimal but I would still take a legal route if the option was there. Immediately Marijuana is one that should already be legal. It’s no more dangerous than a pint and we as a country are one of the biggest exporters of the medicinal kind anyway. Once you get into a conversation about the harder substances I really don’t know. But if you create a legal avenue for some you immediately cut down on a lot of crime and thus resources spent on it.
It was the harder ones I was thinking about. Don’t think anyone would be bothered about doing it for marijuana, it would bring in money, and may cut down on the stuff that is far stronger than what was smoked back in the 1960s (so I am informed). But what about cocaine, heroin, LSD? Party drugs? It is a complex question,
And stopping anyone under a certain age now ever smoking by stopping them buying tobacco. Can see a return to people making a nice living hopping across the channel and bringing tobacco back in to sell to them.
I don't have a problem with people vaping as long as they keep within the broad guideline of common sense and respect for others who don't. I took to vaping a couple of years ago as an alternative to my 40+ a day cigarette habit.I don't vape in public places or trains etc and I dispose of my used vapes through various recycling programmes.It's a huge concern to me when I see the streets and pavements littered with their discarded packaging and spent vapes but that's solely based on ignorance and disregard. If the government were to ban them altogether,people(myself included) will be drawn back into smoking cigarettes...Something that governments don't want to see due to the cost involved with treating chronic illness caused by them?
It's still happening to a lesser extent? Hand rolling tobacco is £35 a pouch(50g) in the U.K,a third of that in the Canaries,France,Belgium etc.Every time we go abroad I get it for the lad,saves him a fortune over the course of a year and I've seen many others buying it in bulk in the same shops(to the tune of 100-200 pouches).That's clearly to flog on at a profit.
It’s no an easy one. Given there’s a massive rise of cocaine usage in this country again you could make the argument to target that. You’d solve a lot of issues if you did that and set up the proper support networks for those using. The issue would be the occasional recreational users. I see lads on away days doing lines of it who are by and large normal people that go back to a normal working week. You could run the risk of those accessing more and more but you’d hope a legal substance in theory would be safer than whatever cut up **** is currently in their system.
MDMA/Ecstasy should definitely be legal along with marijuana without any real danger above what we already have with legal drugs like alcohol ( in fact it's probably a lot less ) Heroin is an interesting one that we could talk for days over. But a short answer is imo legalisation would help the addicts and take away the vast majority of crime around it both the selling of it and the junkies turning to crime to fund the fixes
Where I was at Uni was one of the best places in the country for finding them. There’s no denying that it actually was as posh as it sounds, but they grew all over the 9-hole golf course on site and you could find and harvest them there quite easily. Being a bit naive we made no secret amongst our peers of being able to find them and showed others how to too. Anyway, word obviously got around and I walked into our kitchen one afternoon to the sight of one of my mates sat with his back to me and a sawn-off shotgun lying on the table between him and the rather large other occupant of the kitchen. With probably the most malice I’ve ever experienced directly he reached for it and told me to **** off. Which I did, obviously. It turned out that we’d started impacting on someone else’s rather more profitable harvesting of the same crop. And I’ve seen the drug trade differently, and believed that even if the ability to purchase is limited like alcohol then legalising the supply chain would be a significant benefit to society ever since.
There’s definitely a possibility, but it’s rare. How many people die from alcohol each year in this country? My view is that all drugs ( including alcohol) should be legal. It’s been obvious for many years now that no government can stop it, it’s impossible.
Never had a pint or a skinful that made me psychotic, but a brownie in Amsterdam ****ed me up. Wouldn't go near the stuff!
Would seem there is a possibility of taken in excess. It's not a perfect solution - this would be that no one took anything that harmed them. But it's not happening, so it's best to compromise and legislate, rather than banging heads against the wall. I'm against most pornography and completely aware that I'm in the minority, but the internet means that criminalising it is impossible without removing internet access and so unlikely, so have to compromise and accept its legal status. Just think that a more practical approach has to happen now.
How many friends or family have you lost to alcoholism or alcohol related illnesses?I’ve lost a few over the years. Never lost anyone to cannabis.
