go to thailand?
there is always Prague
lol smoking cannabis makes you a junkie since when, minimum 5 years for having it i think there is more to worry about than weed smokers, how about alcoholics drink driving ect, remember no one has died from a cannabis overdose compared to how many drunks have died or killed someone behind the wheel? people frown on it because they dont understand it, and the goverment allow it because it makes them a fortune,
lol smoking cannabis makes you a junkie since when, minimum 5 years for having it i think there is more to worry about than weed smokers, how about alcoholics drink driving ect, remember no one has died from a cannabis overdose compared to how many drunks have died or killed someone behind the wheel? people frown on it because they dont understand it, and the goverment allow it because it makes them a fortune,
The idea is to stop young peope getting into it/ using it, to avoid trying harder drugs down the line, and to stop the destructive metal illnesses that are associated with use.
Its not rocket science.
hey if you wait long enough people will always talk about the "drugs ladder" another myth peddled by the ill informed. As for the mental illness issue why is that? because the whole business is unregulated and has been allowed to progress without any checks or balances. I'm sure if you banned alcohol then illegal "stills" would crop up all over the country with super strength spirits been brewed in back bedrooms and sheds far beyond exceptable limits.
I should state at this point that in the late 90's i worked as a drugs councillor in a residential rehab - so i'm coming at this from a basis of experiance and education, and not the pages of the daily mail or the "red tops". People who use cannabis do not automatically move onto other drugs - its not a career you know!! Just because someone drinks beer doesn't mean that they will start hammering spirits. If they do its because they have a problem with alcohol - its not an automatic progression.
If cannabis users do move on to harder drugs its because they are exposed to them by dealers because of current drugs policy.
I'm not arguing that drugs to do not cause problems because they do and i've seen the wreckage of some peoples lives. However just because some people have a problem doesn't mean that the majority do.
Because a few have a problem it affects everybody else. Alcohol isn't banned because a relative minority have a problem.
My own personal view is that all drugs should be legal, brushing it under the carpet never works and it never has. Its part of the human condition to get high it always has been and it always will be.
The problem with drugs policy in this country (and many others) is that policy is not even allowed to be discussed without the ill informed throwing their arms up in the air and saying that the world will go to hell in a handcart. Do you know that? and what evidence can you provide that it will - the swiss experiment with Class A drugs as worked and the Dutch do not have problem with drug use - but they do have a problem with "drug tourism".
one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Current drugs policy has clearly failed - yet the alternatives are not even allowed to be discussed.
G
hey if you wait long enough people will always talk about the "drugs ladder" another myth peddled by the ill informed. As for the mental illness issue why is that? because the whole business is unregulated and has been allowed to progress without any checks or balances. I'm sure if you banned alcohol then illegal "stills" would crop up all over the country with super strength spirits been brewed in back bedrooms and sheds far beyond exceptable limits.
I should state at this point that in the late 90's i worked as a drugs councillor in a residential rehab - so i'm coming at this from a basis of experiance and education, and not the pages of the daily mail or the "red tops". People who use cannabis do not automatically move onto other drugs - its not a career you know!! Just because someone drinks beer doesn't mean that they will start hammering spirits. If they do its because they have a problem with alcohol - its not an automatic progression.
If cannabis users do move on to harder drugs its because they are exposed to them by dealers because of current drugs policy.
I'm not arguing that drugs to do not cause problems because they do and i've seen the wreckage of some peoples lives. However just because some people have a problem doesn't mean that the majority do.
Because a few have a problem it affects everybody else. Alcohol isn't banned because a relative minority have a problem.
My own personal view is that all drugs should be legal, brushing it under the carpet never works and it never has. Its part of the human condition to get high it always has been and it always will be.
The problem with drugs policy in this country (and many others) is that policy is not even allowed to be discussed without the ill informed throwing their arms up in the air and saying that the world will go to hell in a handcart. Do you know that? and what evidence can you provide that it will - the swiss experiment with Class A drugs as worked and the Dutch do not have problem with drug use - but they do have a problem with "drug tourism".
one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Current drugs policy has clearly failed - yet the alternatives are not even allowed to be discussed.
G
Yeh, what he said!
If cannabis was to be a gateway drug then it is because the average pothead cannot get his/her weed without visiting a rather shadey character who is only trying to make some tax free cash (Another thing legalisation would solve). This guy will probably try and make some more cash from some harder and more expensive drugs.
Now if it was shop based, and government approved, then you would never have to see these folk. The masses that sit on the dole and make more money than I do selling drugs would for once REALLY BE OUT OF A JOB!
The local pot head would no longer have to associate with seeded types.
And heroin would be a lot safer if it was legal. Morphine for example.
And for all those that still support the escalating ladder theory, how about banning free choice, cos we all know that that leads on to smoking cigarettes that lead on smoking cannabis, that leads onto heroin & Cocaine, that ultimately leads onto Cake & Czech neck!
depends on the person and there personality but for alot they do go on to try other drugs after using cannabis, its a simple fact im afraid.