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"Cannabis - yah or nah?"

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

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:

it simply cannot be healthy to deliberately inhale smoke.

If you think that, then why is Alcohol so healthy? would have thought more people die from liver and kidney failure.

It's abusive to your body, I know Cigerettes are too but if the Government made them Illegal other Taxes would rise 100% then we'd be stuffed, honestly, they should just tax Rizlas, then everyone would be happy, if you've ever been stopped with cannabis, they don't do anything, maybe take it off you if your unlucky Policemen really couldn't care less about it, they think it's a waste of their time trying to catch kids with it (adults being more careful with it, not smoking it in a busy high street) they'll always be Police wasting their time catching the other drugs and with due cause, drugs have always been a culpret for deaths, mainly because they're kept so secret and so much moneys involved, I think Cocaine in London is about 20% pure.

er-no wrote:
> I don't really ever want to smoke anything

There is another point there, actually.

Regardless of whether weed is as dangerous or as bad for you as normal cigarettes, it simply cannot be healthy to deliberately inhale smoke.

I think it needs to be legalised asap. From a strictly libertarian point of view, I don't believe anyone else has the right to tell me I can't do something like that. I'm sure there are many others on these forums who smoke the odd ounce of white widow here and there, and I'm sure they'd agree it's all good, OK it's a bit harmful, but so is opening my window for a lungful of traffic fumes.
Plus, if we had Amsterdam style coffeshops in London (which just maybe we do already) the UK 20 somethings might move away from the binge-drinking pub culture, and start going to the cinema, theatre, galleries etc. And on the other hand the little ghetto yoots on the Aylesbury estate might chill out a bit, especially if the freed up police resources are used to stop crack.
I'm a respectable law-abiding citizen in every way, and if I happened to have been a herbaholic for the last 7 years of my life, why should that be punished? Especially when the people casting judgement are all off their crackers on legal cocktails of valium and prozac. I always have and always will indulge in a couple of spliffs of an evening, and to me, and everyone around me, that is no worse or better than a couple of pints of lager after work...

Same kinda mind set as Grix for me.

I don't really ever want to smoke anything, been offered many many times, simply said no. Pier pressure depends on the strength of the individual. You can say no.

Only in Amsterdam, I think what happened was, there was such a huge population of people (if not all) that smoked it or grew it, and they couldn't do much about it, that was always my theory.
Anyone know why it was made illegal in the first place? I heard it was the Cotton companies in the 1700s that were being put out of business because Cannabis/Hemp is such a useful material. Hemps still used now but it's not a drug so you'd be a fool to smoke it.

Personally I think its a pro-social thing.

At College its definitely a pro-social thing. Last year about 5-6 of us used to go to a quiet spot in the college and just pass around a spliff and that was when most of the serouis conversation in our lives was done...

You obviously hang out in the wrong places Goatboy. The wrong pubs at least. Yes, anyone who has one too many and goes off on one should damn well be ashamed. Perhaps people should require certificates to be allowed to drink in public, would be a good idea in my opinion.


The anti-social thing about a group of smokers is that you have to not mind the foul stench of their emissions if you want to join in a conversation. You don't have to put up with such an atrocity to sit down in a pub with some friends who are drinking alcohol, you don't passively damage your health nearly as much, and you don't have to join in the drinking.

And in my experience, a few drinks is just as good at unlocking the gates of outward thinking as any other drug.

Bar the odd combination of cocaine and ecstacy, which makes people jabber like loons whilst hopping around like mentally diseased rabbits.

How does it all work in Holland and Portugal?

Never smoked it myself, but I know people who do. Would I if it were offered? I don't honestly know.

But I see no reason for it not to be legalised, apart from - as Goaty says - the fact that the Government would immediately outlaw people growing their own, and tax what you bought in the shops.