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Well what does everyone think?
I reckon it should be legalised as it is not addictive and does not lead to harder drugs, although it would be hard for the government to tax.
opinions?
Phil
I reckon it should be legalised as it is not addictive and does not lead to harder drugs, although it would be hard for the government to tax.
opinions?
Phil
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Well its gonna have to be legalised soon cause your gonna need a free bag of it with Pikmin if your ever going to fully grasp the concept of the game.
Miyamoto was smoking something bloody strong that night thats for sure.
Miyamoto was smoking something bloody strong that night thats for sure.
It is currently impossible to legalise cannabis, well to any workable extent. Let me explain.
Everyone points to Holland and says whoo look they've legalised cannabis. Well they have, but not properly. It is legal to buy cannabis and it is legal, I think, to sell it in cafés because they are not technically supplying it. However, the actual supply of the drug remain illegal, with the upshot that most of the cafés are supplied by criminal organisations. And that is not a desirable state to be in.
The reason that supply is still illegal is due to a European treaty/concordat that drug supply is illegal throughout Europe. I imagine that it was part of a wider treaty coordinating international narcotics investiagations. The problem is that if one country pulls out it baggers the whole thing up. It's effectively an all or no-one debate. I can't see there being broad concensus that such a change should take place and that limits options.
The safest thing to do at the moment is to decriminalise the drug. Don't arrest people for possession and then you could save massive amounts of police time and let them focus on stopping dealers.
I haven't smoked cannabis and I don't really want to, but I can see that the current state of affairs is pretty stupid. We can't deny that drugs exist because that just makes the problem worse. Cannabis should be decriminalised and people should be educated about it, just as they are educated about the dangers of smoking and drinking alcohol.
One thing does worry me though. There is talk about a "slippery slope" of drug usage, people go from cannabis to cocaine to crack to heroin. Maybe that's a little extreme, and in most cases it doesn't happen at all. However, recently at my school 12 people were suspended or expelled for using and dealing drugs. They were aged between 11 and 14. And apparently about half of each of those year groups is involved in some way in the "network". A conservative guess about the amount of people dealing is that a quarter of the 14 year olds are actively dealing. Now that is frightening. While there may not be a "slippery slope" for grown-up people who are relatively mature, I have seen people I know progress from cannabis to other more dangerous drugs, and if they could make that progression then it's pretty likely that 11 to 14 year olds could.
I'd advocate decriminalising it, but the amount of people using the drug does worry me. It may not have done some of you any harm but some people I've known since I arrived at the school have gone from being energetic and talkative to drawling and lethargic, coming back from every lunchbreak with bloodshot eyes and stinking of it. Sure many people won't become like that, but a lot do. That's why smoking and alcohol are still legal despite, arguably, worse long-term repercussions; people can operate normally after smoking or drinking. Alcoholics can do a job perfectly well while smashed out of their faces, there was the case of an alcoholic pilot who regularly flew a plane perfectly safely despite being drunk. Cannabis makes people lethargic and in our industrial, productivity-orientated world I don't think that's going to prove too popular.
Everyone points to Holland and says whoo look they've legalised cannabis. Well they have, but not properly. It is legal to buy cannabis and it is legal, I think, to sell it in cafés because they are not technically supplying it. However, the actual supply of the drug remain illegal, with the upshot that most of the cafés are supplied by criminal organisations. And that is not a desirable state to be in.
The reason that supply is still illegal is due to a European treaty/concordat that drug supply is illegal throughout Europe. I imagine that it was part of a wider treaty coordinating international narcotics investiagations. The problem is that if one country pulls out it baggers the whole thing up. It's effectively an all or no-one debate. I can't see there being broad concensus that such a change should take place and that limits options.
The safest thing to do at the moment is to decriminalise the drug. Don't arrest people for possession and then you could save massive amounts of police time and let them focus on stopping dealers.
I haven't smoked cannabis and I don't really want to, but I can see that the current state of affairs is pretty stupid. We can't deny that drugs exist because that just makes the problem worse. Cannabis should be decriminalised and people should be educated about it, just as they are educated about the dangers of smoking and drinking alcohol.
One thing does worry me though. There is talk about a "slippery slope" of drug usage, people go from cannabis to cocaine to crack to heroin. Maybe that's a little extreme, and in most cases it doesn't happen at all. However, recently at my school 12 people were suspended or expelled for using and dealing drugs. They were aged between 11 and 14. And apparently about half of each of those year groups is involved in some way in the "network". A conservative guess about the amount of people dealing is that a quarter of the 14 year olds are actively dealing. Now that is frightening. While there may not be a "slippery slope" for grown-up people who are relatively mature, I have seen people I know progress from cannabis to other more dangerous drugs, and if they could make that progression then it's pretty likely that 11 to 14 year olds could.
I'd advocate decriminalising it, but the amount of people using the drug does worry me. It may not have done some of you any harm but some people I've known since I arrived at the school have gone from being energetic and talkative to drawling and lethargic, coming back from every lunchbreak with bloodshot eyes and stinking of it. Sure many people won't become like that, but a lot do. That's why smoking and alcohol are still legal despite, arguably, worse long-term repercussions; people can operate normally after smoking or drinking. Alcoholics can do a job perfectly well while smashed out of their faces, there was the case of an alcoholic pilot who regularly flew a plane perfectly safely despite being drunk. Cannabis makes people lethargic and in our industrial, productivity-orientated world I don't think that's going to prove too popular.
Goatboy wrote:
> I knew you reminded me of a film character.
> Heather No.1 - the one with a penchant for red.
Nah, otherwise he woul have just told you to fun him gently with a chainsaw.
> I knew you reminded me of a film character.
> Heather No.1 - the one with a penchant for red.
Nah, otherwise he woul have just told you to fun him gently with a chainsaw.
Nah
YAH YAH YAH YAH YAH etc etc...
frogy wrote:
> Goatboy,your full of crap! You rabbit on endlessly,slaging everyone
> else off. When in reality,your talking about yourself! If your going
> to talk rubbish! At least have the "intelligence",to keep it
> short! Save wasting our valueble time & intellect! If anyone has
> an over rated opinion of them selves,it's deffinately you! Then thats
> what you'd expect from a kid!
i think you'll find goatboy was having a go at post like these.
so really calling him a kid beause of his posts and doing the same thing in yours just makes you a hypocrite.
> Goatboy,your full of crap! You rabbit on endlessly,slaging everyone
> else off. When in reality,your talking about yourself! If your going
> to talk rubbish! At least have the "intelligence",to keep it
> short! Save wasting our valueble time & intellect! If anyone has
> an over rated opinion of them selves,it's deffinately you! Then thats
> what you'd expect from a kid!
i think you'll find goatboy was having a go at post like these.
so really calling him a kid beause of his posts and doing the same thing in yours just makes you a hypocrite.
Goatboy,your full of crap! You rabbit on endlessly,slaging everyone else off. When in reality,your talking about yourself! If your going to talk rubbish! At least have the "intelligence",to keep it short! Save wasting our valueble time & intellect! If anyone has an over rated opinion of them selves,it's deffinately you! Then thats what you'd expect from a kid!
Why is it that if anybody expresses a view you either disagree with or don't like, then they're stupid or it's wrong?
Pessimism is one thing, rampant self-importance is something else entirely.
I'm sorry mate, I've tried to be nice but I find you incredibly childish, egotistical and, worse than any of those, boring.
And yes, I can choose to exercise my right to not read your stuff.
And I will do.
Good day to you Insane Bartender, I have finally met somebody that serves no purpose but to troll.
Every single post you make, without exception, is to be sarcastic, obtuse or fashionably anti-opinion.
Ever seen the film Heathers?
I knew you reminded me of a film character.
Heather No.1 - the one with a penchant for red.
Pessimism is one thing, rampant self-importance is something else entirely.
I'm sorry mate, I've tried to be nice but I find you incredibly childish, egotistical and, worse than any of those, boring.
And yes, I can choose to exercise my right to not read your stuff.
And I will do.
Good day to you Insane Bartender, I have finally met somebody that serves no purpose but to troll.
Every single post you make, without exception, is to be sarcastic, obtuse or fashionably anti-opinion.
Ever seen the film Heathers?
I knew you reminded me of a film character.
Heather No.1 - the one with a penchant for red.
===SONICRAV--->, if there is one thing that is absolutely certain to me, it is that human beings cannot be trusted to run their own lives, when left to their own devices.
Lealise all drugs because people should be mature enough to make the right decision?
Hell, why not!! While we're at it, why stop there? If people are suddenly so trustworthy, why should fraud exist as a crime? We can trust people to be honest, so we can strike that right off the crime register. Throw in all theft while you're at it. Hell, no-one is going to be irresponsible enough to commit sex crimes either, THAT WOULD JUST BE STUPID WOULDN'T IT??
By your own stupid and incredibly flawed logic, we don't need a legal system. Utter, utter, utter stupidity.
Lealise all drugs because people should be mature enough to make the right decision?
Hell, why not!! While we're at it, why stop there? If people are suddenly so trustworthy, why should fraud exist as a crime? We can trust people to be honest, so we can strike that right off the crime register. Throw in all theft while you're at it. Hell, no-one is going to be irresponsible enough to commit sex crimes either, THAT WOULD JUST BE STUPID WOULDN'T IT??
By your own stupid and incredibly flawed logic, we don't need a legal system. Utter, utter, utter stupidity.
FantasyMeister wrote:
> If he grows his own, fine, if he doesn't, think about it.
Which reminds me...
I could get hold of as much as I wanted, and probably for a knock-down price, if I was interested. You see, a relative of mine grows his own.
He's been done by the police a few times in the past, but not for a while now.
> If he grows his own, fine, if he doesn't, think about it.
Which reminds me...
I could get hold of as much as I wanted, and probably for a knock-down price, if I was interested. You see, a relative of mine grows his own.
He's been done by the police a few times in the past, but not for a while now.
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