I agree with this. I think even Canada is on the verge of legalising cannabis in July 2018. The state will benefit from the collected tax revenues. I am a drinker but would much prefer to see cannabis made legal within appropriate properties ie cafes, than witness piss heads walking about with an open can of alcohol. I'm not sure but is this not the custom that Amsterdam follow, ie cafes allowed but walking about with an open can of beer will incur you a fine? As said above the best way to manage it is to licence and regulate it and tax revenue collected can go into the health service. Maybe a basic narrow view but one i think it is about time the UK considered.
As a public health issue, alcohol is by far and away a bigger problem, yet it’s available 24/7 and you can buy it for peanuts. Successive govts have criminalised cannabis and lumped it together with other drugs and tried to ‘fight’ it with their ‘war on drugs’ and it’s been a total failure. It’s also criminalised thousands of people who are otherwise law abiding citizens who have nothing to do with crime. Whenever govt has sought advice from the medical, legal and ethics community, they have all said that cannabis needs to be decriminalised. But no MP has got the balls to do it. It will come though, because this generation of ‘drugs are bad m’kay’ law makers are gradually falling of the perch.
Entirely agree. If it became legal people would know what they were buying too. I used to grow some of my own or get it from friends, etc. But in those days it was just straight weed or resin. Nowadays it’s pumped full of **** knows what, some of it!
That’s what the narrow minded don’t grasp. Alcohol is a drug - and a potentially very dangerous one too. Like any drug, abuse it it and it will **** you up.
Govt’s don’t have a problem with alcohol because they collect so much revenue in duty on it, but fail to make the link between that income and how much then they have to spend mopping up the effects of alcohol abuse in society.
Skiddy is the man to run a cafe. A day doesn’t go by without him posting a plate of **** on here. He could call it 50 shades of brown
He does eat some **** that man. Some of the stuff he posts makes me want to throw up... sick bastard.
I never saw anybody want to start a fight when they were stoned. That’s gotta be one big plus over the drink!
