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Weed
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Kashinda
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04-16-2018, 10:47 PM -
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You have to imagine this will be legalised soon. Been reading about a boy recently who has been having over 30 seizures a day, and he's been using cannabis oil to take it down to 1 a day. 
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.c...e-43318408
How can you realistically continue to deny it to sick people who it very obviously helps and relieves. Legalise it for medicinal use first, and then control and tax it for recreational use.
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04-16-2018, 11:49 PM -
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You're a what?
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04-17-2018, 06:44 AM -
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I’m in favour of legalisation of it tbf.

Legalise, regulate and tax. Put the money in the national coffers rather than in the hands of organised crime gangs.
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04-17-2018, 06:54 AM -
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Legalise the lot. Folk are going to get their drugs either way; might as well put the big dealers like Morph out of business at the same time.
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04-17-2018, 07:30 AM -
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I don’t think it’s anywhere close to being legalised for medicinal use here never mind recreational Laugh
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04-17-2018, 07:43 AM -
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(04-17-2018, 06:54 AM)Acey Wrote: Legalise the lot. Folk are going to get their drugs either way; might as well put the big dealers like Morph out of business at the same time.

Hekens

End prohibition and take drugs out the hands of lowlife criminals (Morph). Tax em all and regulate them. Put the proceeds into drug education and safe use initiatives. Making drugs illegal hasn't worked and never will.
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04-17-2018, 07:59 AM -
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While i agree about the money that can be made from it. I think it should be kept illegal or decriminalised. People who want it will always find guys like Morph to buy it from anyway.

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04-17-2018, 08:04 AM -
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(04-17-2018, 07:59 AM)Yum Yum Wrote: While i agree about the money that can be made from it. I think it should be kept illegal or decriminalised.

Why?
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04-17-2018, 08:07 AM -
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(04-17-2018, 07:59 AM)Yum Yum Wrote: While i agree about the money that can be made from it. I think it should be kept illegal or decriminalised. People who want it will always find guys like Morph to buy it from anyway.

Exactly. So drugs being illegal is pointless. All you do is enrich gangsters and make criminals of their customers. Its counterproductive and profits nobody but the real criminals (Morph)
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04-17-2018, 08:09 AM -
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We will look back on the war on drugs with bewilderment in years to come.
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04-17-2018, 08:10 AM -
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(04-17-2018, 08:04 AM)Acey Wrote: Why?
Because, i think it will be opening the floodgates to a level of people doing it like drinking. I must admit i preferred smoking to drinking. And long term use comes with psychological problems. It would put even more strain on the NHS. Also, it will increase the the knock on effect of people taking up smoking, while the government has done quite well over the years in getting people to stop. Im not sure throwing all the money made at any issues with the tax made will make a difference.

Does the benefit, (the only being financial) outweigh the risks?

Edit:  Ok. It will save the police time and money also.
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04-17-2018, 08:11 AM -
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(04-17-2018, 08:04 AM)Acey Wrote: Why?

I assume because it can steal the best years of peoples lives.

I'm in favour of decriminalisation but there are valid arguments for it to be kept illegal, often from ex addicts experiences.
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04-17-2018, 08:15 AM -
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(04-17-2018, 08:11 AM)Gregory Wrote: I assume because it can steal the best years of peoples lives.

I'm in favour of decriminalisation but there are valid arguments for it to be kept illegal, often from ex addicts experiences.

very good point.

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04-17-2018, 08:15 AM -
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(04-17-2018, 08:10 AM)Yum Yum Wrote: Because, i think it will be opening the floodgates to a level of people doing it like drinking. I must admit i preferred smoking to drinking. And long term use comes with psychological problems. It would put even more strain on the NHS. Also, it will increase the the knock on effect of people taking up smoking, while the government has done quite well over the years in getting people to stop. Im not sure throwing all the money made at any issues with the tax made will make a difference.

Does the benefit, (the only being financial) outweigh the risks?

Edit:  Ok. It will save the police time and money also.

Fair enough. Sound I suppose there’s also the fact that more crime = more business for lawyers too. Tony Hmm
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04-17-2018, 08:22 AM -
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Drugs fuck people up. I see that every day in my job. I can see why people are reticent about going the whole hog into legalisation.

For me though, it would be a complete game changer that would render an entire criminal industry obsolete overnight and would free up the police to focus on other things rather than booking in a junkie for possession for the umpteenth time. The amount of revenue made would be colossal too.

It'll never happen with class A's I dont think. Too much of a jump. But I would certainly like to see it happen with cannabis.
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04-17-2018, 08:28 AM -
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Herzog makes fair points but people are always going to use it. The drugs have won the war on drugs. Time for a truth and reconciliation commission.

On that note legalise prostitution as well. Have licensed brothels and make the ladies that work there have licences and safe places to work. If they have to get a licence by interview (or whatever) it would decimate the human trafficking industry.
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04-17-2018, 08:29 AM -
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I think the general Western trend of increased tolerance, ultimately leading to legality, is the right one.

There are plenty of other reasonable arguments for decriminalisation, but I think the most pertinent one nowadays is the economic one. Brexit Britain is going to need to add as many strings to its production bow as it can, and a properly structured and taxed weed market would create jobs, business opportunities and lucrative taxation opportunities in a market that's undoubtedly popular.

That said, you just know the Tories will be against any form of tolerance or decriminalisation. They'll take some Rees-Mogg-inspired moral stance on it and make a cunt of it.
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04-17-2018, 08:34 AM -
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Think in Portugal drug related crime went down something mental like 90%. The number of overdoses also drastically dropped (a bit different just from weed I know). Colorado seeing considerable economic growth from legalising weed as well. There appear to be plenty positives anyway.

We'll need to wait for a Labour government though.
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04-17-2018, 08:36 AM -
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(04-17-2018, 08:34 AM)Alan Partridge Wrote: Think in Portugal drug related crime went down something mental like 90%. The number of overdoses also drastically dropped (a bit different just from weed I know). Colorado seeing considerable economic growth from legalising weed as well. There appear to be plenty positives anyway.

We'll need to wait for a Labour government though.

Think Lib Dem had it as a policy previously - so maybe a wee coalition with them and the pinkos at the next election.

I'll look out my Snoop Dogg CDs Shitwine
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04-17-2018, 08:41 AM -
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Weed has been effectively legal for white people for ages.

Did Colorado release the folk doing prison sentences for weed?



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