Cannabis Cafes Here

[joggerjayne]

http://www.telegraph....afes-in-Brighton.html

How coolio would that be !!

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[Joanne130]

Wouldn't bother me either way i know lots of people smoke it anyway often the people you would least expect, once when i was at a relatives house someone had left a coat & in a bid to identify the owner i went through the pockets & found a lump of what i recognised as cannabis i was also very surprised to find out it was my aunts friend who is in her 60s & seemingly law abiding & vocal in her anti drugs philosophy lol i never mentioned it to her when i returned the coat & of course left the lump in the pocket, but i now look at her with different eyes :)

[ummmm]

I think tourists go for more than the dope!!!

[joggerjayne]

Encouraging tourists seems to be part of the rationale.

[sir.prize]

erin-x - as you associate with the cannabis fraternity, can you say why they do it? Does cannabis have qualities that compensate for lack of the ability to face life and become responsible and respectable citizens? Or are they, as has been said, 'yobs' and 'undergraduates' and ultimately 'MP's'?

[ummmm]

You can't call them yobs...they can barely get off the sofa!!

Seriously, I know dope smokers...they all work full time.

[erin-x]

I don't have to justify why anyone does it! I honestly don't see how it's worse than smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol, both of which are socially acceptable. It's more than likely that you do one or both of those, can you tell me why?

[jno]

people smoke because they like it, same as alcohol and cigarettes. It seems to do less harm than both.

[cazzz1975]

im not a fan of cannabis, I used to see my neighbour permanently fried on it, too spaced out to look after her kids.

[WyeDyed]

Portugal has gone one step further and it seems to be working there:
http://www.time.com/t...,8599,1893946,00.html

[MarkRae]

It's the old adage that no bloke ever came home and beat seven rakes of crap out of his wife after ten joints...

[EDDIE51]

I am in favour of decriminalising ( NOT legalising) all drugs. There is a huge diffrence between decriminalising and legalising.
Portugal has decriminalized drugs and 'street crime' has dropped by 80% .
Decriminalising means you do not prosecute users and you allow sale / use of drugs at cost price under strictly controlled conditions.
This means there is no profit to selling drugs as they are available free on prescription with the dealers out of the picture the rest of the problem is far easier to fix. Remember over 80% of ALL crime is to buy or supply drugs make them freely available at cost price and under full quality control and there is no need for crime.
Portugal had all the doom sayers predictions that the place would be awash with drugs and deaths would increase but it has just not happened.
The problem is that one town alone can not 'decriminalise; drugs it has to be the entire country.

[Prudie]

I didn't know that about Portugal - now I understand why one particular work colleague wants to live there :-)

[sir.prize]

Ummmm - my mistake. Perhaps I should have referred to them as dopes.

[DaisyNonna]

Here we go again. Some things are illegal. Under age sex, many abortions, cannabis. If enough people turn a blind eye no one is ever prosecuted. What a travesty of a legal system.
JJ. Please grow up.

[sir.prize]

erin-x. I find you have a strange outlook on life.

///I honestly don't see how it's worse than smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol, both of which are socially acceptable.///

Except of course, cannabis is not considered to be socially acceptable. That is why it is 'outlawed' and every effort made to destroy plantations and prosecute the offenders.

Ironically (and honestly) I am not a partaker of alcohol or tobacco. But good try erin-x.

[erin-x]

I never said it was socially acceptable. I said that smoking and drinking were, even though they have a much more detrimental effect on your health.

[jno]

and that's how it should be, DaisyNonna. The law only works by consent. If the public no longer supports a law it should be repealed. The Labour government passed about 5 million laws a day. It's a fair bet that a lot of them could safely be done without.

[sir.prize]

erin-x correct - you didn't say it was socially acceptable, but you inferred it should be considered as such aligning it with smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol within the same sentence.

[erin-x]

You are the one who inferred it actually.