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Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Professor Pertwee says he has developed an 'extreme' scheme that would see certain forms of cannabis legalised and sold as a branded product. BBC News
Would you buy and use cannabis if it were legal? Do you think current users would buy or go for the strands of cannabis that would still be banned?
Personally, I don't think I would - I experimented in my 20's and was never really interested beyond a short 2 months trials. I do think however that preventing cannabis use is a waste of police / legal resources and we might do better legalising and taxing it properly.
Doubt that it would happen under the present government. But personally I would not, but I agree with Gardener (must wash myself!!!) that it should be legal and taxed. The same should be for most drugs.
Doubt that it would happen under the present government. But personally I would not, but I agree with Gardener (must wash myself!!!) that it should be legal and taxed. The same should be for most drugs.
Legal, taxed and out of the hands of criminals who are able to charge huge premiums and make a fortune from its "illegality".
I think I wouldn't buy. (I already tryed it years ago)Would you buy and use cannabis if it were legal?
Me too. :shock:I must be getting old. When I saw the title of this thread I thought it said "call for licensed cannibals".
Legal, taxed and out of the hands of criminals...
I would not legalize it, and instead of making money through taxes, just enforce the laws and impose very heavy fines on those caught using cannabis.
Well, if tobacco is also responsible for schitzophrenia or cancer then well, why legalise another evil weed?
..Or indeed, banning one to make room for the other?
But consistency was never the strong suit amongst liberals. Probably cos of all that pot they smoke!
Might as well legalise burglary, happy-slapping, mugging, murder and rape then. Not to mention suicide. After all, if people want to do it that bad that they break the law...
Though I wonder how many of these people wanting legalised pot also want tobacco banned or cripplingly taxed?!
marijuana can cause:
memory loss
disorted perception
loss of coordination
reduced blood pressure
increase heart rate -> heart attack
hallucinations
delusions
lung infections
lung cancer
obstruct airways
you wonder why it's illegal?
It comes down to whether the public is willing to pay for adequate law enforcement and the actons required to enforce the law. Right now and the last 100 years no, they're not.
Such is an illuminating insight into the minds of those on the 'liberal' side. They want to do something illegal so badly, which is why it mustn't be illegal any more --
..... etc.Man had too many convictions to be sent to jail (from The Daily Mail)
A career criminal with 112 convictions was spared jail under a controversial Government programme. The policy which allowed Kevin Page to walk free from court was bitterly attacked by police and campaigners for victims’ rights. Page began his life of crime in his teens, has caused damage and stolen property worth tens of thousands of pounds, and has been sentenced 37 times including 13 custodial sentences totalling six years. But instead of being jailed for his latest offence of breaking into a car, magistrates placed him under the Prolific and Priority Offender Scheme for 18 months. The order means Page, 23, will be allowed to remain in the community under the scrutiny of probation officers and other agencies. That is despite the fact that the drug addict had been released from prison only four weeks before the offence for a previous crime and was under a Community Rehabilitation Order – which meant he was already meeting with probation officers on a regular basis. Police have repeatedly said he will continue to commit crimes unless he is put behind bars.
P.I. comment: Whenever the PC brigade bleat about how jail doesn't work, I have to remind them that it works in at least two ways. 1) people can't commit further offences when they are in jail and 2) at least the police won't be tied up chasing them or investigating their misdeeds, releasing them for the more important work. (like filling speed cameras with film?)
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