The London Mayor...

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According to that video, and your comment, Sadiq Khan is going to eat all the hamsters in the UK.

They so crunchy...Khan got the munchies.
He scoffed the lot...

Kirk was livid when he found none were left for the captain's table.

 

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I’ve never bought the argument that decriminalising drugs reduces crime. If profits collapse, other way of making money will be found. It’s no different to any other business. Decriminalising drugs is like decriminalising assisted suicide, it’s not right because it makes some people feel better.

Over six months, more than 2,500 hours of police officers’ time were saved on processing cannabis arrests, while arrests for dealing class A drugs rose by almost a fifth. Non-drug crime fell by 9% overall, with sharp declines in burglaries and street robberies. Almost two-thirds thought it had improved relations between the police and the community. The Lambeth experiment would end after a year...

...but the short experiment with decriminalisation for minor offences can clearly be seen as a success. Hardened criminals will still find a way but fewer folk will be caught up in the Drugs War and penalised.

 

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Over six months, more than 2,500 hours of police officers’ time were saved on processing cannabis arrests, while arrests for dealing class A drugs rose by almost a fifth. Non-drug crime fell by 9% overall, with sharp declines in burglaries and street robberies. Almost two-thirds thought it had improved relations between the police and the community. The Lambeth experiment would end after a year...

...but the short experiment with decriminalisation for minor offences can clearly be seen as a success. Hardened criminals will still find a way but fewer folk will be caught up in the Drugs War and penalised.

More of the same over simplification. I read of very senior police officers who think crime is reduced by decriminalisation.

 

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IMO, if cannabis is illegal, then so should alcohol and tobacco be illegal.

There are deep seated cultural reasons why one is and the other isn’t. Like why we eat lambs but not puppies.

 

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Like circumcision, tattoos, piercings?
If society did not evolve I suspect humans would die out as a species.
No medicine, no vaccinations, no alternative foodstuff, no transport, no government, etc.

Society (at least Western society) is evolving into the cult of the individual, doing their own thing. Which is fine if you are a billionaire but not do great if you are an unemployed post Covid Gen Alpha.

 

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So socialisation doesn't happen any more?
And the examples and pressures of parents and peers no longer applies?

I would argue that none of the above is true, but that modern, western children are more aware of alternatives than ever before, and are more willing to explore and accept such possible alternatives.

This of course is very relevant to the use of and legality of such substances as tobacco, alcohol and cannabis.

Open to alternatives like not working. If you are employed most employers will squeeze as much out of you as possible, because cost cutting means fewer people are expected to do more work. That doesn’t appeal to some/many.

 

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More of the same over simplification. I read of very senior police officers who think crime is reduced by decriminalisation.

You imagine senior police officers don't know what they're talking about?

Worldwide studies have shown decriminalisation works well for the community.

I'd rather see a bunch o' stoners wandering about admiring the shape of clouds, than a herd of pi$$headss hurling clouds of puke into the gutters.

 

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You imagine senior police officers don't know what they're talking about?

Many of them do but there a lot who are pen pushing criminologists

 

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You have a wonderful way with words.

 

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You're welcome. It was the way it conjured up memories of my youth.

We've all been there, right? Talkin' to God on the great white telephone at 3.am...

 

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Naah, not me.
Ain't you herd, I wuz buzzy wif me OU digree.

Always time for a swift pint at t'Mill or the Lime Kiln, in those days.
I stopped drinking over thirty years ago. I can only handle one vice at a time...

...but the worst cases of misjudgment in causing an accident is combining the two: beer n' weed do not mix well.

 

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Got cold feet?