Cannabis

er ! lets think about this…
drugs + police = government spending
cannabis + police + easy pickings fines = government gain.

not rocket science is it.. :roll:

they are clueless. someone needs to explain to the muppits in government that people use cannabis. people will always use cannabis because its nice, its relaxing, it kills stress and it numbs pain. it costs less than a prescription and it works with no side effects.
its a natural product with no chemicals and its non addictive. [manufactured pain killers are chemical based and are all addictive]
but lets get to the real reason they have done this u turn on cannabis. they can now tax money from the thousands of teens who buy a smoke to escape the boredom and reality of a shi*e existance thay have been dealt. the government see this drug as an easy tax and an easy headline grabber. in reality they couldnt care less, as long as the fines cover the cost of collection. why arent they hammering the coke dealers ? aaah.. tell ya why, because that would entail going into pubs/clubs and actually grabbing the dealers in situ. the polioce wont do this, because it means they have to get their hands dirty. they dont like doing that, not without riot shields and dogs. almost every town and village across britain is blighted by coke addiction, my god even international rugby players are at it..
why arent gordon andf his crones kicking pub doors in and dragging the dealers off to jail ? itll never happen because the government and the police are cowards. fine the smokers who use sensibly and leave the evil kid catchers alone, thats a problem for the next tory government god forbid.
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Hmmm, well let’s be real about this shall we. Cannabis is a drug that is smoked regularly by many peeps & for many a reason. At the end of the day it is a mind altering substance. It makes peeps do things that they wouldn’t normally do. That is a dangerous place to be & it costs lives!

My mate tried it to help cope with the effects of MS. Sadly it didn’t help & she since passed away aged 42. :(

I know a few that have the odd spliff at the weekend to unwind, each to their own. I tried it a couple of times in my younger years – (yes I know sad & gave into peer pressure). Didn’t do anything for me.

Think the real issue here like many other things in life is the effects it has on kids. They might start with the odd recreational spliff that leads on to the hard stuff. I am sick of reading the sob stories of peeps that get dragged into a downward spiral because life dealt a shyte hand & before they know where they are they are hooked on heroin etc etc & often prostituting themselves, robbing folk to pay for their habit.

Where to draw the line is a hard one to decide. An optimist might say if it has proven medical advantages then put it on prescription for those who might benefit.
For everyone else – if you get caught using it then it’s illegal but then we face the prospect of our over crowded jails being stacked full of petty criminals & the real nasty crims don’t get the long sentences they really deserve.

Good subject for debate – I personally don’t condone the use of drugs of any sort for recreaction but as I have said already each to their own.
The new classification is yet another way of the government extracting money …… but then if you can afford to buy the drug , you can afford to pay the fine??? Hmm another interesting line of thought. :wink: :wink:

It causes (or at least can cause) mental problems and i read somewhere “rots” the lungs far more than cigarettes. It isnt illegal on a whim or out of spite it’s illegal for a reason, because users dont go beating people up doesnt mean its harmless and should be made legal

But i’m not talking about using it medically MJ, if it’s that good and it works then you should be able to have it prescribed i reckon, but it’s not the miracle has no side effects drug. Sure some people try it recreationally and never go on to “harder” drugs but i dare bet an awful lot do, and the majority take it recreationally and not for pain relief.

i suffered a collapsed spine ten years ago. i had a major op toimplant a titanium rod and bone graft it into place. it gave me a new lease of life. but im left with nerve damage and its very painful at times. i smoke every night before i go to bed. it relaxesmy muscles and it enables me to break the tense pain cycle. brilliant stuff. i can now go without morphine and two sleeping pills a night. [awful] cannabis should be prescribed and sold over the counter in small doses for stress and sleep difficulty. [just not to teenage boys it tends to open the dark side in them well one in twenty thousand anyway]