Yes there’s a risk of mental illness, but booze destroys far many more lives than weed.
I mean if we treated drugs like a public health issue rather than a criminal one we might not have a revolving door prison system that just slaps people with a criminal record that prohibits them from jobs they might be well qualified to carry out thus leaving them in a pit 🙁 but na, have drug users in the HoC while average person on the street would get fined & possibly imprisoned.
The reason it causes psychosis in some people is that the weed is unregulated and extremely high in thc on black market. If you had a legitimate market for it like alcohol it could be regulated to a safer level and protocols in place to help those addicted or suffering cannabis induced mental health problems.
Shit i thought you wrote cannibals. Had a wee panic at first
It’s high time . . Cannabis? That’s my pun of the day.
Imagine if alcohol were illegal. When it was inevitably produced on the black market, they would produce the strongest stuff possible to minimise what they transport and maximise the “high” from the consumer. This would in turn cause considerable problems for the people buying it (which would be MANY, of course).
With what we know from alcohol being legal and regulated, the argument for safety doesn’t stand up because we know it can be properly managed and we can limit the amount of damage it does. It’s not perfect of course, but it’s better than a complete ban.
You will never stop people from taking drugs and you will never stop some people from abusing them, but what you can do is intervene to minimise the damage by ensuring the product is as safe to consume as scientifically possible.
Ooo not the devil’s cabbage , it’s what junkies use on the high street /s
It’s already been made medically legal on the down low 🙂 lol can’t wait for full decrim
No party in this country is going to do this and be able to form a government. So it won’t happen.
alcohol companies must be lobbying to stop it as it will hurt them, as people will just have a smoke instead of getting a crate at the supermarket or going to the pub as it will be so much cheaper. Not that it’s that hard to get hold of but once you can just walk into a shop and buy it more people will try or use it more often.
The added pros are fewer people would go to the doctor for silly things they don’t need to go for they will just smoke or eat some weed, only issue is less cancer and more severe issues won’t be discovered until its too late
As someone who lives between the UK and Canada it still blows my mind that the government here hasn’t jumped on this bandwagon. It allows police resources to be focused on drugs that are an actual danger to the community. It pumps tax revenue into the coffers and also allows it to be regulated so that people can make an educated decision on what strength they want and make healthier consumption choices (I.e. vaping, edibles, etc)
It’s definitely time the UK gets their head out of the Regan era “just say no” bs. But I think at some point their hand will be forced once the majority of European countries legalise it.
Legalise it, tax it, spend tax on adverts saying how bad it is, problem solved
With this lot in charge?
I’d put that up there with the same chance of me winning the lottery!
I’m totally sober. I don’t drink, smoke, or do any other more illicit drugs. But I’m completely in favour of decriminalisation and lean heavily towards backing legalisation.
The only thing that puts me off completely backing legalisation is that it fucking stinks and it would have to be better managed than smoking cigarettes is currently.
Interesting they say we refuse medical cannabis to our own citizens even though we export it.
I love the way our medical cannabis industry is so under the radar that even people who are researching the subject as a journalist can’t figure out it’s legal.
It may as well not be! I mean honestly, the police don’t know it’s legal – no one does! It’s crazy…
Oh well if Thailands done it then the we might as well too!
I’m legally prescribed over 20 ounces of herbal cannabis a year in the UK to manage my disabilities.
The idea that people would get class A convictions, while I can vape almost wherever is insane.
What does it mean by “even Thailand?” Was Thailand always known as a particularly harsh on weed place?
I’m a Brit living in Canada, where weed is fully legalised. I partake a few times a week, there’s 0 stigma associated with it here. Like smoking a cig.
The country hasn’t gone to shit, everything is still standing.
The justification for keeping it illegal is completely nonsensical, when you look at Canada.
We’ve too many self righteousness and very little bipartisanship
Thersa mays husband owns or has stakes in a company that is the biggest export of medical and recreational cannabis in Europe, his pockets are being filled to much for cannabis to ever be legalised
I am in Thailand now, it is every where.
Cheap, easy, variety.
Out in the open. Good stuff. Beer and a spliff.
Can’t ever see it personally. This country is way more conservative that people realise
the states in the US which have decriminalised it are making billions on taxes
Meanwhile, Conservative police commissioners want it to be reclassified as a Category A drug!
Nah taxing it for the new budget?, nah that’s crazy talk.
Lets just gut the welfare state instead.
Gcse economics at it’s finest.
Considering Liz Truss intervened in Bermudas legalisation bid in her first few days, there’s no chance. Tory peers are one of the biggest exporters of medicinal cannabis in the world, yet they will not allow the decriminalisation of a plant.
People claim that legalisation will lead to more “smokers”. If it was legalised I wouldn’t be smoking any weed. I’ll be vaping and eating the mother fucker.
Even NY legalized it recently. We have no official places to buy it legally yet (besides medical). Walking around you get whiffs of odor from users, not a big deal.
Naw man we’re too busy taxing the shit out of the poor.
If we keep up the fight to free the weed then with some luck (and pressure) we can finally join the 2020s!
I’d be all over the gummies if they legalised here. Always nip to the dispensary when I’m in legal states. They’re great for jetlag
The government could make money off it but they too stupid to realise that. It’s less harmful and addictive than certain prescription drugs.
Yes, and grow your own – up to 6 plants per household. More and you get to pay a fine unless you have a licence. Bring it on. (outdoor summer grows only – stop the growing of skunk in hydro-farms under lights with similar fines). Result; milder more tasty varieties of weed. No need to buy from dodgy sources.
How can our country “catch up” to other countries when our government is actively dragging us back to the 1800’s?
I’ve had police come into my house, see a table filled with weed and literally not care.
Even Thailand? What’s that supposed to mean exactly?
The war on drugs clearly has not worked and all it has done is increase the risk involved for people who take drugs. At the end of the day people will take drugs no matter the potential legal outcomes.
I believe that this is more of a health care issue than a legal one, a few other countries have shown how it can be done but of course right now the current leading party is too busy destroying the economy.
The difference in policy between the U.K. and elsewhere is stark. In Canada cannabis is legal and in BC even possession of small quantities (2.5g) of harder drugs (opioids, cocaine, meth and MDMA) will be decriminalised from January – https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022MMHA0029-000850
Even?? Literally almost only bro, Mexico is close as their judiciary ruled it a constitutional requirement but hasn’t legally enacted anything. There’s a few others that have moved but they’re a minority.
US non movement on federal legalisation and control of financial systems is preventing alot of countries from moving less they end up sanctioned.
It won’t be legalised because so many MPs take in money in the very lucrative medical cannabis industry
We actually export a shitload of weed, and they can’t be having the poors reducing their profits so they throw us in jail instead
Just take a look at the age groups that run are county (especially the House of Lords) they haven’t got a bone of progression between them. So the war on drugs BS still gets pushed.
At this point in time anybody in the UK who wants to buy and smoke weed *is already doing so*. Prohibition has failed and will continue to do so.
Legalise it, tax it and let’s all go about our day.
Oh god I wish it would happen. I’m so tired of being labeled a criminal or a druggy for something that is no different to a beer to me.
Used responsibly there’s no harm in using it (with the understanding that smoking has it’s problems)
Thailand also has lots of other laws and customs that the UK doesn’t have. That’s why British tourists like to go there. But I don’t understand the logic that the UK should follow the Thais.
Cannabis has been legal in Canada for a few years now. The social impact has not been great. I do not see any more potheads around than previously, but it has become quite common to see or smell people toking in cars that are parked. If your neighbours smoke, you are out of luck and will have to close the windows to avoid the skunk-like stench. High school kids are still into vaping rather than cannabis. Canada has a significant fentanyl problem that does not seem to interact with cannabis use.
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They’re too busy profiting from it being illegal still
https://www.verdict.co.uk/british-sugar-cannabis-uk-medical-marijuana/
Links for the silly cunt below
Yes there’s a risk of mental illness, but booze destroys far many more lives than weed.
I mean if we treated drugs like a public health issue rather than a criminal one we might not have a revolving door prison system that just slaps people with a criminal record that prohibits them from jobs they might be well qualified to carry out thus leaving them in a pit 🙁 but na, have drug users in the HoC while average person on the street would get fined & possibly imprisoned.
The reason it causes psychosis in some people is that the weed is unregulated and extremely high in thc on black market. If you had a legitimate market for it like alcohol it could be regulated to a safer level and protocols in place to help those addicted or suffering cannabis induced mental health problems.
Shit i thought you wrote cannibals. Had a wee panic at first
It’s high time . . Cannabis? That’s my pun of the day.
Imagine if alcohol were illegal. When it was inevitably produced on the black market, they would produce the strongest stuff possible to minimise what they transport and maximise the “high” from the consumer. This would in turn cause considerable problems for the people buying it (which would be MANY, of course).
With what we know from alcohol being legal and regulated, the argument for safety doesn’t stand up because we know it can be properly managed and we can limit the amount of damage it does. It’s not perfect of course, but it’s better than a complete ban.
You will never stop people from taking drugs and you will never stop some people from abusing them, but what you can do is intervene to minimise the damage by ensuring the product is as safe to consume as scientifically possible.
Ooo not the devil’s cabbage , it’s what junkies use on the high street /s
It’s already been made medically legal on the down low 🙂 lol can’t wait for full decrim
No party in this country is going to do this and be able to form a government. So it won’t happen.
alcohol companies must be lobbying to stop it as it will hurt them, as people will just have a smoke instead of getting a crate at the supermarket or going to the pub as it will be so much cheaper. Not that it’s that hard to get hold of but once you can just walk into a shop and buy it more people will try or use it more often.
The added pros are fewer people would go to the doctor for silly things they don’t need to go for they will just smoke or eat some weed, only issue is less cancer and more severe issues won’t be discovered until its too late
As someone who lives between the UK and Canada it still blows my mind that the government here hasn’t jumped on this bandwagon. It allows police resources to be focused on drugs that are an actual danger to the community. It pumps tax revenue into the coffers and also allows it to be regulated so that people can make an educated decision on what strength they want and make healthier consumption choices (I.e. vaping, edibles, etc)
It’s definitely time the UK gets their head out of the Regan era “just say no” bs. But I think at some point their hand will be forced once the majority of European countries legalise it.
Legalise it, tax it, spend tax on adverts saying how bad it is, problem solved
With this lot in charge?
I’d put that up there with the same chance of me winning the lottery!
I’m totally sober. I don’t drink, smoke, or do any other more illicit drugs. But I’m completely in favour of decriminalisation and lean heavily towards backing legalisation.
The only thing that puts me off completely backing legalisation is that it fucking stinks and it would have to be better managed than smoking cigarettes is currently.
Interesting they say we refuse medical cannabis to our own citizens even though we export it.
I love the way our medical cannabis industry is so under the radar that even people who are researching the subject as a journalist can’t figure out it’s legal.
It may as well not be! I mean honestly, the police don’t know it’s legal – no one does! It’s crazy…
Oh well if Thailands done it then the we might as well too!
I’m legally prescribed over 20 ounces of herbal cannabis a year in the UK to manage my disabilities.
The idea that people would get class A convictions, while I can vape almost wherever is insane.
What does it mean by “even Thailand?” Was Thailand always known as a particularly harsh on weed place?
I’m a Brit living in Canada, where weed is fully legalised. I partake a few times a week, there’s 0 stigma associated with it here. Like smoking a cig.
The country hasn’t gone to shit, everything is still standing.
The justification for keeping it illegal is completely nonsensical, when you look at Canada.
We’ve too many self righteousness and very little bipartisanship
Thersa mays husband owns or has stakes in a company that is the biggest export of medical and recreational cannabis in Europe, his pockets are being filled to much for cannabis to ever be legalised
I am in Thailand now, it is every where.
Cheap, easy, variety.
Out in the open. Good stuff. Beer and a spliff.
Can’t ever see it personally. This country is way more conservative that people realise
the states in the US which have decriminalised it are making billions on taxes
Meanwhile, Conservative police commissioners want it to be reclassified as a Category A drug!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63115171
Nah taxing it for the new budget?, nah that’s crazy talk.
Lets just gut the welfare state instead.
Gcse economics at it’s finest.
Considering Liz Truss intervened in Bermudas legalisation bid in her first few days, there’s no chance. Tory peers are one of the biggest exporters of medicinal cannabis in the world, yet they will not allow the decriminalisation of a plant.
People claim that legalisation will lead to more “smokers”. If it was legalised I wouldn’t be smoking any weed. I’ll be vaping and eating the mother fucker.
Even NY legalized it recently. We have no official places to buy it legally yet (besides medical). Walking around you get whiffs of odor from users, not a big deal.
Naw man we’re too busy taxing the shit out of the poor.
If we keep up the fight to free the weed then with some luck (and pressure) we can finally join the 2020s!
I’d be all over the gummies if they legalised here. Always nip to the dispensary when I’m in legal states. They’re great for jetlag
The government could make money off it but they too stupid to realise that. It’s less harmful and addictive than certain prescription drugs.
Yes, and grow your own – up to 6 plants per household. More and you get to pay a fine unless you have a licence. Bring it on. (outdoor summer grows only – stop the growing of skunk in hydro-farms under lights with similar fines). Result; milder more tasty varieties of weed. No need to buy from dodgy sources.
How can our country “catch up” to other countries when our government is actively dragging us back to the 1800’s?
I’ve had police come into my house, see a table filled with weed and literally not care.
Even Thailand? What’s that supposed to mean exactly?
The war on drugs clearly has not worked and all it has done is increase the risk involved for people who take drugs. At the end of the day people will take drugs no matter the potential legal outcomes.
I believe that this is more of a health care issue than a legal one, a few other countries have shown how it can be done but of course right now the current leading party is too busy destroying the economy.
The difference in policy between the U.K. and elsewhere is stark. In Canada cannabis is legal and in BC even possession of small quantities (2.5g) of harder drugs (opioids, cocaine, meth and MDMA) will be decriminalised from January – https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022MMHA0029-000850
Even?? Literally almost only bro, Mexico is close as their judiciary ruled it a constitutional requirement but hasn’t legally enacted anything. There’s a few others that have moved but they’re a minority.
US non movement on federal legalisation and control of financial systems is preventing alot of countries from moving less they end up sanctioned.
It won’t be legalised because so many MPs take in money in the very lucrative medical cannabis industry
We actually export a shitload of weed, and they can’t be having the poors reducing their profits so they throw us in jail instead
Just take a look at the age groups that run are county (especially the House of Lords) they haven’t got a bone of progression between them. So the war on drugs BS still gets pushed.
At this point in time anybody in the UK who wants to buy and smoke weed *is already doing so*. Prohibition has failed and will continue to do so.
Legalise it, tax it and let’s all go about our day.
Oh god I wish it would happen. I’m so tired of being labeled a criminal or a druggy for something that is no different to a beer to me.
Used responsibly there’s no harm in using it (with the understanding that smoking has it’s problems)
Thailand also has lots of other laws and customs that the UK doesn’t have. That’s why British tourists like to go there. But I don’t understand the logic that the UK should follow the Thais.
Cannabis has been legal in Canada for a few years now. The social impact has not been great. I do not see any more potheads around than previously, but it has become quite common to see or smell people toking in cars that are parked. If your neighbours smoke, you are out of luck and will have to close the windows to avoid the skunk-like stench. High school kids are still into vaping rather than cannabis. Canada has a significant fentanyl problem that does not seem to interact with cannabis use.