We’re ready for fucking full blown coffee shops mate
I have passed people smoking it in the street without legal repurcussions.
It literally could be legalised and regulated within a year and nothing much would change.
The UK is arguably already one of the world’s biggest producers and exporters of “medicinal” cannabis products. One of the biggest sites is a very large glasshouse at Wissington, Norfolk which is managed by British Sugar.
Financially, the likes of Theresa May’s husband and one-time drugs minister Victoria Atkins’ husband have big financial interests in the UK’s production and processing of cannabis.
We’re already ready, there are millions of people in this country that would rather the money goes into a taxed and regulated market instead of funding organised crime.
Need to look at the Canadian example so we don’t get a huge bubble that bursts if we get the same rush.
Should really just be legalised.
Whilst I do think cannabis should be legalised, it’s probably not a wonder drug right now and likely won’t prove to be IMHO. There are probably be a limited number of patients for whom its very useful, like rare childhood epilepsy syndromes where conventional antiepileptics don’t work in individual patients. But a lot of the time it doesn’t really stand up to the evidence (and yes, that is partially because of a lack of proper trials) – lot of the trials they conduct don’t really end up providing the evidence you would need to call it a wonder drug.
Part of that is to do with the medical model we use for medicines – whole plants don’t really serve us that well. It’s difficult to create a consistent, cost effective medicine that can actually be used. There is a lot said about the fact that cannabis is somehow this perfect mix of compounds but there isn’t actually much proof for that. It also has quite a lot of undesirable properties (the ideal drug wouldn’t make you high or have narcotic effects).
Theresa Mays husband rubs hands together with glee.
It’s not happening anytime soon I seen a double page spread in the mail about brianna greys murderer it went is it any wonder why there’s so many killers on the streets off Britain when where ever you go you can smell weed I thought to me self iv smoked it for 22 years an everyday for about eighteen years an iv never once had a joint an wanted to go out an kill someone its bullshit man
I would pay above the odds to buy proper medicinal-grade cannabis from a legal source for my partner. I can’t buy it from dealers, simply because I can’t trust the strength/grade or additives.
Medical cannabis has been legal since 2018….I’ve had a prescription for flowers for the last 2 years.
I’m not sure my nerves can take just in general within the world. Legalise, regulate and help us not panic so much about everything in existence
It’s funny, my doctors will prescribe stronger and stronger pain killers and when they start to lose effectiveness, double the dosage and then start prescribing other pain killers like it’s pick n mix ( NHS specialist and GP ).
But try getting cannabis and you might as well join cirque du soleil the hoops they have you jumping through.
We’ve been ready for california style dispos for years
Been getting my prescription from Curaleaf for over a year now , long process but worth it plus it’s cheaper than street weed ..
I’ve been struggling with addiction to the shit on and off for years. The country needs to be prepped for the massive influx of people who don’t need it who’ll be making any excuse to get it prescribed.
Personally, I think it should be fully legalised and licensed and treated like a public health issue, not a criminal issue. Education around a medicine is likely to have more impact than the ‘just say no to drugs’ attitude that is completely counterproductive.
The youth of today generally seem more wary of drugs than my generation was, but a LOT of people are going to slip through the cracks and wind up wasting a LOT of time stoned at home when they could be making more of themselves.
Ended up having to do a council swap because my neighbour and all of her family smoked it in the garden constantly the stuff is so strong gave me a headache so couldn’t sit outside.My neighbour said it helped her chronic pain but her sons smoked it constantly.Suffer myself from chronic arthritis and would personally like to try a lower dose strain as have heard it can help with pain issues and have less side effects than the 22 tablets I currently take now.It should be legal and decriminalised as the young kids go around every day smoking this way too strong stuff and over the years I have seen how badly it can effect their minds.Id love to go into a shop and try lower strength gummies or vape for helping me ease pain.
Why the fuck don’t they just bloody legalise it and make a shit ton of money from it. How many people smoke a joint and go out and murder someone, Alcohol (legal) is probably responsible in part for 75% of murders in the UK. Don’t get me started on the fact the UK is the biggest producer and exporter of medical cannabis in the world.
The UK already has medical cannabis, myself and 40,000+ other people are already prescribed medical cannabis.
It is privately prescribed but is actually not that much more expensive than buying it from the street, and I live happy in the knowledge that it’s perfectly legal. I am prescribed by a consultant psychiatrist who happens to work within the NHS too, she is brilliant and seems to know her stuff, and I’ve found medical cannabis has helped me.
There’s quite a few clinics out there now. I recommend visiting r/UKmedicalcannabis if you want more info.
I know the actual content of the article is more accurate, but headlines like this make me laugh as I sit here vaping my 20% THC medical cannabis flower in England.
I guess headlines like this are also the reason a third of police don’t even know it’s legal…
I see no reason to NOT legalise it.
It’s one of those common sense subjects that the majority of people will support and are in favour of, yet for some reason politicians refuse to touch.
The future of medicinal cannabis is identifying the active ingredients which prevent seizures or stop pain etc and putting them in a pill or injection with minimal psychoactive side effects. In the same way that doctors give people fentanyl patches for cancer pain, they dont tell them to pop down the local den to smoke some opium.
Cannabis probabaly should be legalised, but a huge amount of people arguing for it to be medically available are just wanting an excuse for a recreational smoke and if anything it harms to argument of making it available for therapeutic use by the healthcare system.
I expected lower alcohol, tobacco and drugs incentives coming from governments because of multicultural tensions, poverty, standards of living decline etc…
Lol and housing will still be an issue, whooray now we can be high and cope
It’s readily available anyway, it’s a waste of police resources pursuing it, our economy needs the additional tax revenue.
When politicians talk about spending and how there’s no magic money pot, there literally is its called legalisation of cannabis. Imagine if we doubled the amount of tax revenue from alcohol, it’s basically that, but less harmful. Fucking do it already.
People smoke it completely openly in public now, it isn’t a big deal; just legalise it already. You can’t walk down a street in a city centre without smelling it, basically same as cigarette smokers.
UK
UK is the world’s biggest producer of medical cannabis – but Brits can’t access it. 14 April 2021.22 Feb 2023
We’ve been ready for decades but our spineless governments are too addicted to the prohibitionist paradigm, law enforcement loves the ‘easy busts’ of policing cannabis users etc. It’s worth bearing in mind that cannabis is actually *more illegal* than it was in the late 90s and in fact there were some fairly big moves made towards decriminalisation in the early 00s, Commissioner Paddick basically decriminalised cannabis use in London, there were several shops and social clubs where you could purchase and consume on site.
I believe it was under Gordon Brown that work was undone and cannabis was rescheduled from class C to class B, in effect making the penalties for production and distribution more serious than multiple other, more harmful substances (ketamine, anabolic steroids etc).
It is far beyond time the UK gets with the program and joins the more enlightened governments in the world, full legalisation of medical and recreational cannabis, decriminalisation of possession of the majority of other commonly used recreational substances with a view to eventual legalisation once the frameworks are in place for ethical and sustainable production.
We are already….
One of the reasons poluticians are so vehemtly against legalisation is because loads of them own shares in british medical cannabis companies. We export a fuckload of weed.
I get medicinal weed from curleaf and it’s made my life so much better. I work full time skilled job, don’t have to hide it from work. It’s hard living with ptsd and took a while to overcome it to start working in first place.
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city of london police have it on my file been stopped a few times but never search as they haven’t had a legal reason to As I am legally entitled to carry weed with me.
I’ve taken it to Alton towers, Thorpe park, TV show recordings, clubs. I take it everywhere.
I use a vape called medi+, got capsules I grind weed into and have a key ring accessory so I can do it all before I go out.
I still have my down days as anyone else with MH issues but at least I can say I’m living a happier & productive life compared to when it wasn’t legal for medicinal reasons.
It’s the one fucking thing I thank the tories for, it’s so typical of life the people I hate most have actually benefited my health the most personally, it’s so weird and understand I’m a very small minority in that opinion. It’s hard not to be so smug about it around my Tory loving, weed hating family but I think my nan has recently been persuaded.
Am so ready….
Please, please let this happen 🙏 (“in a regulated and appropriate manner, for everyone’s beneft”)
xxxx
An island a stones throw away from the dam? Ready?
Since the late 1800 at least.
Had a medical prescription for 4 year now with sapphire/Curaleaf. The fact I don’t have to worry about legal repercussions is immense. I suffer from chronic pain and use oils, flower and recently vape cartridges. The positive effect it’s had on my life is immeasurable. I wish more people knew about it and the benefits it can give you. r/ukmedicalcannabis
If it’s legalised, it should be taxed slightly higher and all that tax go to the NHS from the get go.
If we’re going to have socialised health care (which we should!) new things like this should be used as new revenue/funding avenue to keep it going.
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We’re ready for fucking full blown coffee shops mate
I have passed people smoking it in the street without legal repurcussions.
It literally could be legalised and regulated within a year and nothing much would change.
The UK is arguably already one of the world’s biggest producers and exporters of “medicinal” cannabis products. One of the biggest sites is a very large glasshouse at Wissington, Norfolk which is managed by British Sugar.
Financially, the likes of Theresa May’s husband and one-time drugs minister Victoria Atkins’ husband have big financial interests in the UK’s production and processing of cannabis.
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44197038](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44197038)
[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/09/inside-one-of-the-first-licensed-medical-cannabis-labs-in-britain](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/09/inside-one-of-the-first-licensed-medical-cannabis-labs-in-britain)
We’re already ready, there are millions of people in this country that would rather the money goes into a taxed and regulated market instead of funding organised crime.
Need to look at the Canadian example so we don’t get a huge bubble that bursts if we get the same rush.
Should really just be legalised.
Whilst I do think cannabis should be legalised, it’s probably not a wonder drug right now and likely won’t prove to be IMHO. There are probably be a limited number of patients for whom its very useful, like rare childhood epilepsy syndromes where conventional antiepileptics don’t work in individual patients. But a lot of the time it doesn’t really stand up to the evidence (and yes, that is partially because of a lack of proper trials) – lot of the trials they conduct don’t really end up providing the evidence you would need to call it a wonder drug.
Part of that is to do with the medical model we use for medicines – whole plants don’t really serve us that well. It’s difficult to create a consistent, cost effective medicine that can actually be used. There is a lot said about the fact that cannabis is somehow this perfect mix of compounds but there isn’t actually much proof for that. It also has quite a lot of undesirable properties (the ideal drug wouldn’t make you high or have narcotic effects).
Theresa Mays husband rubs hands together with glee.
It’s not happening anytime soon I seen a double page spread in the mail about brianna greys murderer it went is it any wonder why there’s so many killers on the streets off Britain when where ever you go you can smell weed I thought to me self iv smoked it for 22 years an everyday for about eighteen years an iv never once had a joint an wanted to go out an kill someone its bullshit man
I would pay above the odds to buy proper medicinal-grade cannabis from a legal source for my partner. I can’t buy it from dealers, simply because I can’t trust the strength/grade or additives.
Medical cannabis has been legal since 2018….I’ve had a prescription for flowers for the last 2 years.
I’m not sure my nerves can take just in general within the world. Legalise, regulate and help us not panic so much about everything in existence
It’s funny, my doctors will prescribe stronger and stronger pain killers and when they start to lose effectiveness, double the dosage and then start prescribing other pain killers like it’s pick n mix ( NHS specialist and GP ).
But try getting cannabis and you might as well join cirque du soleil the hoops they have you jumping through.
We’ve been ready for california style dispos for years
Been getting my prescription from Curaleaf for over a year now , long process but worth it plus it’s cheaper than street weed ..
I’ve been struggling with addiction to the shit on and off for years. The country needs to be prepped for the massive influx of people who don’t need it who’ll be making any excuse to get it prescribed.
Personally, I think it should be fully legalised and licensed and treated like a public health issue, not a criminal issue. Education around a medicine is likely to have more impact than the ‘just say no to drugs’ attitude that is completely counterproductive.
The youth of today generally seem more wary of drugs than my generation was, but a LOT of people are going to slip through the cracks and wind up wasting a LOT of time stoned at home when they could be making more of themselves.
Ended up having to do a council swap because my neighbour and all of her family smoked it in the garden constantly the stuff is so strong gave me a headache so couldn’t sit outside.My neighbour said it helped her chronic pain but her sons smoked it constantly.Suffer myself from chronic arthritis and would personally like to try a lower dose strain as have heard it can help with pain issues and have less side effects than the 22 tablets I currently take now.It should be legal and decriminalised as the young kids go around every day smoking this way too strong stuff and over the years I have seen how badly it can effect their minds.Id love to go into a shop and try lower strength gummies or vape for helping me ease pain.
Why the fuck don’t they just bloody legalise it and make a shit ton of money from it. How many people smoke a joint and go out and murder someone, Alcohol (legal) is probably responsible in part for 75% of murders in the UK. Don’t get me started on the fact the UK is the biggest producer and exporter of medical cannabis in the world.
The UK already has medical cannabis, myself and 40,000+ other people are already prescribed medical cannabis.
It is privately prescribed but is actually not that much more expensive than buying it from the street, and I live happy in the knowledge that it’s perfectly legal. I am prescribed by a consultant psychiatrist who happens to work within the NHS too, she is brilliant and seems to know her stuff, and I’ve found medical cannabis has helped me.
There’s quite a few clinics out there now. I recommend visiting r/UKmedicalcannabis if you want more info.
I know the actual content of the article is more accurate, but headlines like this make me laugh as I sit here vaping my 20% THC medical cannabis flower in England.
I guess headlines like this are also the reason a third of police don’t even know it’s legal…
I see no reason to NOT legalise it.
It’s one of those common sense subjects that the majority of people will support and are in favour of, yet for some reason politicians refuse to touch.
The future of medicinal cannabis is identifying the active ingredients which prevent seizures or stop pain etc and putting them in a pill or injection with minimal psychoactive side effects. In the same way that doctors give people fentanyl patches for cancer pain, they dont tell them to pop down the local den to smoke some opium.
Cannabis probabaly should be legalised, but a huge amount of people arguing for it to be medically available are just wanting an excuse for a recreational smoke and if anything it harms to argument of making it available for therapeutic use by the healthcare system.
I expected lower alcohol, tobacco and drugs incentives coming from governments because of multicultural tensions, poverty, standards of living decline etc…
Lol and housing will still be an issue, whooray now we can be high and cope
It’s readily available anyway, it’s a waste of police resources pursuing it, our economy needs the additional tax revenue.
When politicians talk about spending and how there’s no magic money pot, there literally is its called legalisation of cannabis. Imagine if we doubled the amount of tax revenue from alcohol, it’s basically that, but less harmful. Fucking do it already.
People smoke it completely openly in public now, it isn’t a big deal; just legalise it already. You can’t walk down a street in a city centre without smelling it, basically same as cigarette smokers.
UK
UK is the world’s biggest producer of medical cannabis – but Brits can’t access it. 14 April 2021.22 Feb 2023
We’ve been ready for decades but our spineless governments are too addicted to the prohibitionist paradigm, law enforcement loves the ‘easy busts’ of policing cannabis users etc. It’s worth bearing in mind that cannabis is actually *more illegal* than it was in the late 90s and in fact there were some fairly big moves made towards decriminalisation in the early 00s, Commissioner Paddick basically decriminalised cannabis use in London, there were several shops and social clubs where you could purchase and consume on site.
I believe it was under Gordon Brown that work was undone and cannabis was rescheduled from class C to class B, in effect making the penalties for production and distribution more serious than multiple other, more harmful substances (ketamine, anabolic steroids etc).
It is far beyond time the UK gets with the program and joins the more enlightened governments in the world, full legalisation of medical and recreational cannabis, decriminalisation of possession of the majority of other commonly used recreational substances with a view to eventual legalisation once the frameworks are in place for ethical and sustainable production.
We are already….
One of the reasons poluticians are so vehemtly against legalisation is because loads of them own shares in british medical cannabis companies. We export a fuckload of weed.
I get medicinal weed from curleaf and it’s made my life so much better. I work full time skilled job, don’t have to hide it from work. It’s hard living with ptsd and took a while to overcome it to start working in first place.
​
city of london police have it on my file been stopped a few times but never search as they haven’t had a legal reason to As I am legally entitled to carry weed with me.
I’ve taken it to Alton towers, Thorpe park, TV show recordings, clubs. I take it everywhere.
I use a vape called medi+, got capsules I grind weed into and have a key ring accessory so I can do it all before I go out.
I still have my down days as anyone else with MH issues but at least I can say I’m living a happier & productive life compared to when it wasn’t legal for medicinal reasons.
It’s the one fucking thing I thank the tories for, it’s so typical of life the people I hate most have actually benefited my health the most personally, it’s so weird and understand I’m a very small minority in that opinion. It’s hard not to be so smug about it around my Tory loving, weed hating family but I think my nan has recently been persuaded.
Am so ready….
Please, please let this happen 🙏 (“in a regulated and appropriate manner, for everyone’s beneft”)
xxxx
An island a stones throw away from the dam? Ready?
Since the late 1800 at least.
Had a medical prescription for 4 year now with sapphire/Curaleaf. The fact I don’t have to worry about legal repercussions is immense. I suffer from chronic pain and use oils, flower and recently vape cartridges. The positive effect it’s had on my life is immeasurable. I wish more people knew about it and the benefits it can give you. r/ukmedicalcannabis
If it’s legalised, it should be taxed slightly higher and all that tax go to the NHS from the get go.
If we’re going to have socialised health care (which we should!) new things like this should be used as new revenue/funding avenue to keep it going.