Will Cannabis Be Legalised In The U K Within 10 Years?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49073222
....so claim a cross party group of MPs though they do include Lammy.

Editors Note: We have edited this OP for the purpose of clarity.

[ToraToraTora]

so you can't put it back in news ed?

[spathiphyllum]

Some documentary education. - Select "Use a free pass" (you get 3)

https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/stoned-kids-weediquette/5699516fa4e767937f028321

[Peter Pedant]

// Editors Note: We have edited this OP for the purpose of clarity.
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blimey ed - editing 3T's posts is a full time job !

so claim a cross party groupa MPs
who then lit up and passed around a few spliffs
became very much less cross
and sighed - "wha'eva !" - - - - ter deaah ! [doan bovva to edit]

[ABSpareEditor]

Your post is effectively in "News" it is just not appearing.

In short, we can't do anything about this.

[ToraToraTora]

well on that basis twopee you must have an entire team.

[Calibax]

Hard to square this with plans to make England 'smoke-free' by 2030.

[ummmm]

Calibax - you don't smoke it. It comes in an oil.

[andy-hughes]

I have always advocated the legalisation of both drugs and prostitution.

For far too long, society has taken its prurient attitudes to these two aspects of life, with increasingly expensive and pointless attempts to police them.

As a society, contrary to the perceived wisdom of successive governments, we do not have a choice about whether or not we have drugs and prostitution. What we do have is a choice about how we regulate and control them.

Controlled drug use exists in our society, and has done for hundreds of years - but it's just the 'acceptable' drugs, tobacco and alcohol, which are now woven into our culture.

Yes drugs bring issues, but most aspects of society bring issues.

The way forward is not to act as though those issues mean that we should attempt to pretend that we can stop them existing because we adopt a Heavens-to-Betsie's Victorian morality attitude.

It's time to grow up, accept that drugs are here to stay, the money wasted every year on the utterly futile 'war on drugs' can be better spent in proper regulation, control, and education, which is the way more civilised countries seem to be approaching their acceptance that drugs are not going to go away just because we decide they are 'bad' for us.

[Peter Pedant]

o I thought you rolled a cigarette
and put a llittle oil along it

and eat it or something ( not a great cannabis user ) Hey does anyone remember sugar cigarettes and sugar tobacco ?

[ummmm]

All well and good Andy. Drugs can be tested so you know they aren't cut with things like rat poison. But...drugs suppliers/dealers will just sell them cheaper on the street.

People who use them just for recreational use, say on a Saturday night out, they'd probably be fine, can't say the same for a jobless addict though.

[woofgang]

yep and chocolate smoking sets and liquorice pipes. I didn't like the sweet tobacco as it was strands of coconut which I loath.

[ummmm]

Couple of drops under the tongue is all that is needed, Peter.

I remember sweet tobacco, although as a child I didn't associate it with tobacco.

[spathiphyllum]

Medicinal cannabis comes in many forms from isolated crystal to full spectrum oil extracts to flowers (buds)

Smokefree by 2030 is referring to tobacco, a substance with over 4,000 chemicals, of which more than 70 are known to cause, initiate or promote cancer and are called "carcinogens".

[spathiphyllum]

Ummm, couple drops under the tongue is fine for a CBD oil. A 'couple' of drops of Rick Simpson Oil under the tongue will send you to mars.

There isn't one type of medicinal cannabis and it isn't always an oil.

[andy-hughes]

ummmm - // All well and good Andy. Drugs can be tested so you know they aren't cut with things like rat poison. But...drugs suppliers/dealers will just sell them cheaper on the street. //

Much like the millions of pounds of smuggled tobacco that evades Customs duty and is sold by people smuggling it in from their holidays abroad? As I said, no system is beyond abuse, I am simply offering a better use of millions of pounds than throwing it away year after year on the 'War On Drugs' which continues comprehensively to fail on a daily basis.

//People who use them just for recreational use, say on a Saturday night out, they'd probably be fine, can't say the same for a jobless addict though. //

Or the jobless alcoholic - but that small number does not prevent the majority of society using alcohol in a regulated and sensible fashion.

The issues cause my alcohol misuse dwarf the misuse of illegal drugs by millions to one - if as a society we are willing to accept one, then it's time to be adult, and accept the other as well.

[ummmm]

I understand your point.

[Old_Geezer]

I thought that one baked it in brownies (not the girl guide type).

[aelmpvw]

boris will have to legalise it so he can pay for another 30,000 pc's

[teacake44]

Don't really condone drugs, but drink and drugs are both a high, and both do damage to the body. Stopping people taking either is becoming impossible anyhow.

[jno]

The issues cause my alcohol misuse dwarf

where would I get one of these little chaps?