Drugs don’t work

[IanF]

Because they keep diluting them!

https://news.sky.com/story/money-news-j ... eblog-body

[ZedLeg]

Whereas weed is getting stronger if anything and prices have been completely unaffected by inflation

[jamcg]

I’d love to see a study of how much tax revenue the country could earn from legalising cannabis, vs all the extra costs to the NHS etc they usually site as a reason not to- whilst also including the current cost of policing it the number of saved police hours, the cost of stolen electricity and the cost the NHS has to foot as so many people smoke it these days

Essentially a study with no agenda either way

Nb I don’t smoke, cannabis tobacco or vapes or otherwise

[ZedLeg]

The illegality of weed has been a purely political project imo.

One of the first real pushes against it wasn’t even a moral angle. It was lobbyists from the timber, paper and cotton industries protecting their interests from a growing hemp industry.

I’m an alcoholic and have a complicated relationship with booze but there’s no doubt in my mind that it’s been one of the most damaging things in my life.

Weed on the other hand just slows my brain down a bit so I can get some peace

[Jimmy Choo]

I'd support the legalisation of weed but only in edibles. I hate the smell of the stuff. If you're caught smoking it, you should be loaded into a catapult and shot out to sea.

[ZedLeg]

Fair, edibles are better anyway. If I could reliably get them I wouldn’t smoke it.

I’d make my own but infusing the weed into a fat makes your house stink like a grow house.

[V8Granite]

My neighbour over the road runs a mental health facility. He says that the every single young person he has in is a smoker of the stuff. He also has a business getting young people who have been homeless, a shit start in life etc back into the world, sets them up with an house, work, teaches them basic life skills etc again weed is a massive factor.

He does say it’s a lot stronger than when he was younger.

I hate the smell and it makes me gag, also I don’t want it in my lungs (as I drive about in old petrol shit ) but if it helps people then edibles etc with controlled amounts I don’t see an issue with.

Dave!

[ZedLeg]

People in a shitty situation turning to a cheap and easily accessible drug for relief tracks though?

Like, it could just as easily be cider, glue or smack.

I’m not making any claim beyond my own experience where booze helped me nearly ruin my life on several occasions and the worst that happens with weed is that I fall asleep and miss the end of a film

[Carlos]

Is that a lack of mental and social health care rather than a cannabis issue though Dave.

And 3% Lager is not doing anyone a favour

[V8Granite]

He is busier than he ever has been but no idea if that’s because there is more of a problem or less help.

There are more people on the streets in Peterborough than there ever used to be, more programs to help them but that may be as the council is doing less to stop them going on the streets in the first place.

Dave!

[Mito Man]

Legalised weed would be good as I’ve seen the effects of the other side of it - teenagers employed by gangs to distribute it and that’s a sure way to ruin a young persons life.
However I have zero faith that it would work in this country because they’d tax weed at such a high rate that the criminal market wouldn’t be measurably affected.
Remember that the government don’t actually care about the population and only care about tax receipts.

[scotta]

From a personal and possibly selfish view id say absolutely not. I absolutely hate the smell of it. My mate visited New York recently where its been legalised. Said the whole city was stinking of it.

[dinny_g]

That's very true - it's everywhere there. I even saw guys openly selling pre-rolled joints in Times Square.

The smell is pretty pungent but it's no better or worse than cigarette smoke or bubble-gum or watermelon vape fumes. They're all just as bad as each other

[240PP]

I don’t smoke it myself and haven’t for years. Even spent a year or so in Amsterdam in my late 20s and never bothered with it.

I quite like the smell though

[IanF]

Yeah, tinfoil hat me thinks it’s a US gov plot to control the masses..

[eliot771]

Legalised weed would be good as I’ve seen the effects of the other side of it - teenagers employed by gangs to distribute it and that’s a sure way to ruin a young persons life.
However I have zero faith that it would work in this country because they’d tax weed at such a high rate that the criminal market wouldn’t be measurably affected.
Remember that the government don’t actually care about the population and only care about tax receipts.

Legalising it could help pull younger people out of those dangerous circles, but if it’s overpriced and overregulated, the black market will just keep thriving anyway. I’m not saying cannabis solves everything, but there’s a better way to do this which is safely, and without ruining lives early on.

In case anyone’s looking into what people actually use medically and recreationally in the UK, hybrid weed strains like the ones listed here are where I get mine. It’s not a dispensary or anything, just a good UK-based place for checking out legit strains