Cannabis "should remain class C"

2 years for possession of a Class C drug? I don't know anyone who has even gone to jail for being caught smoking a class C drug.

I once convinced a friend from Thailand that weed is legal in Britain (this is when he first came to the country). He started smoking in front of some police officers, the officers asked him "what are you smoking?", he goes "a joint", the cops just looked at him and walked off. Took him a whole month to realise weed was illegal in Britain.
 
cannabis should be legalised. So should all other narcotics. Unless you like crime of course.
 
People should be made aware of both the pros and cons of using cannabis and should be able to make an informed decision about whether they want to smoke it.

Knowing this country though the education would be totally biased =/
 
the government are daft and they should get their priorities straight. they make people focus on drugs being the ultimate problem in britain when its just something they can pin all sorts of stuff on

i love it how they're focusing on reclassifying cannabis back to class B when they're overlooking a far more potentially dangerous class C drug, ketamine, which basically renders you a spacker for about half an hour or however long you choose to do it. not that i'm complaining however, makes it a slap on the wrist if i get caught with it
 
The bureaucrats and do-gooders who think it's their business or even their obligation to tell other people how to live their lives are nothing more than parasites sucking away at the life and soul of every useful or interesting person in the world.
 
Harryz said:
I once convinced a friend from Thailand that weed is legal in Britain (this is when he first came to the country). He started smoking in front of some police officers, the officers asked him "what are you smoking?", he goes "a joint", the cops just looked at him and walked off. Took him a whole month to realise weed was illegal in Britain.
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Kind of a dick thing to do, don't you think? :|
 
Bad^Hat said:
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Kind of a dick thing to do, don't you think? :|
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True, but no bad intentions were supposed to come out of it. The conversation moved on and just completely forgot about it. A month later he said "remember that time when you said weed was legal...", and I replied, "You still believe that..?"
 
Cannabis is completely wronfully advertised. Unlike Cocaine and Heroin, which can completely ruin your life, Cannabis does nothing more than relax you, with on a small chance of any dangerous of bad outcomes if someone is irresponsible with it. But to be honest, can't you say that with anything? If Cannabis is class B, so should alchohol and nicotine.
 
repiV said:
The bureaucrats and do-gooders who think it's their business or even their obligation to tell other people how to live their lives are nothing more than parasites sucking away at the life and soul of every useful or interesting person in the world.
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... so basically, you're an anarchist?

LackingSaint said:
Cannabis is completely wronfully advertised. Unlike Cocaine and Heroin, which can completely ruin your life, Cannabis does nothing more than relax you, with on a small chance of any dangerous of bad outcomes if someone is irresponsible with it. But to be honest, can't you say that with anything? If Cannabis is class B, so should alchohol and nicotine.
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Yeah. But the advisors can't say that, because of politics. I hate politics.
 
Godron said:
... so basically, you're an anarchist?



Yeah. But the advisors can't say that, because of politics. I hate politics.
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Politics is for people who's mum decided that coca cola before bedtime was bad.
 
Godron said:
... so basically, you're an anarchist?
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No. The perception that you can't have a society based around personal freedom without being anarchist is a myth borne of the level of meddling we now accept in our lives.
A select number of specific and limited freedoms which are by no means guaranteed with a side-order of state-funded entitlements is NOT liberty, it's a mild form of tyranny.
 
I think the only reason Cannabis is frowned upon is it's simalrity to the name for a person who eats other people.

Not really a great name. Cannibis should have been called 'Biozimenades'.
 
I liked how the ''drugs tsar' who quit over the decision to lower it to class C was on BBC this morning talking about the reasons why we should be against cannabas.

There was one argument in particular that I was astounded to hear still being used: that it is a "gateway drug". One is given to question exactly what socioeconomic and legal conditions might lead users of cannabis to try harder drugs - because it seems very unlikely that the substance itself has the chemical effect of making one brave heroin.
 
In that case alcohol, cigarettes or greasy kebabs are gateway drugs, because they cause you to meet all sorts of unsavory types.
 
kirovman said:
In that case alcohol, cigarettes or greasy kebabs are gateway drugs, because they cause you to meet all sorts of unsavory types.
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Yeah, one day it's greasy kebabs, the next they're onto post-pub stuffed crust meat feast and a Smirnoff Ice.

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I have to admit that visiting a kebab van for the first time made me want to do it again as soon as possible.
 
It's pretty simple to me, I've never heard of anyone crashing their car when they were stoned, or beating the hell out of their wife after getting high. The only thing in danger after someone smokes a joint is that bag of Cheetos on the counter....
 
My brother is working on being a Los Angeles sheriff, and used to work for the LAPD, and he told me that most cops here nowadays don't care much for weed crimes because frankly they have bigger, more serious crimes to deal with. And from my experiences, the most they will do is take away your weed and/or take/destroy your piece, but even that is pretty rare.

The only times you'll get a ticket or some form of trouble is if you are on probation, other than that its not much of a crime anymore.
 
Well, look, alchohol causes people to do things they wouldn't do in a normal state of mind, usually resulting in deep regret. Marraiges have been ended due to alchohol abuse. But all cannbis does is calm you down, and put you in a more zen-like mood. Would that end a marraige, or cause you to wake up in an alleyway a day later with a splitting headache?
 
Aside from the fact that cannabis doesn't pose any major health risks or effect negative change on its users, there's one other huge argument in favor of legalization - the fact that illegal drug culture is dangerous and marijuana would have little to do with it if it were legal, instead of being fully enmeshed in it as it is now. People are going to smoke cannabis regardless of penalties for doing so (this is self-evident when you consider that it's the most popular illegal drug in the world) and so we should make it legal and therefore safer for them instead of wasting time futilely trying to stop them from doing it. That takes care of the so-called "gateway drug" problem, virtually eliminates the illegal weed trade which impacts crime quite a bit, and makes the cannabis "problem" safer for everyone involved.
 
Gordon Brown needs to take a chill pill and think this one out otherwise the whole justice system will be clogged up with pot heads and the odd smack head. We all know what happens when police forces are given targets by government cronies that have no life outside of politics. The shit hits the fan and those of us who are not angels nor murderers/rapists pay a heavy price in the name of statistic's.
 
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