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Wrong again.
You're making a habit of that.
Careful now, it could become addictive.
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I don't have an addictive personality or a stash of dope.Careful now, it could become addictive.
So, you can give up drinking today and it's no problem then.
Not often Simon Jenkins @ The GarundiA agrees with Sadiq Khan...
...(seen here in his greenhouse.)
But he does make several good points on decriminalisation:
...the divide in Britain is not between those “in favour” of cannabis and those against. It is between those who care about the impact of criminalisation and those who don’t, a subset of whom merely want to sound macho. In 2004 cannabis was reduced to class C but not decriminalised. Then, in 2009, Gordon Brown played tough and returned it to class B. The then home secretary sacked the government’s drug supremo, Prof David Nutt, for even breathing the word reform. By 2010 there were 43,000 convictions a year for drug possession, more than half of them for cannabis. An internal government report recommended decriminalisation in 2016 but was suppressed. The government even denied a freedom of information request, as if national security were at stake.
The UK is adrift in the western world in still wasting billions on its “war on drugs”. Half of US states have legalised and licensed cannabis, including cities such as New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In California there are cannabis cafes, cannabis farming estates and even cannabis sommeliers...more Americans today smoke cannabis than tobacco, including an astonishing five times more among those aged 18 to 34. There has been no noticeable collapse in American people’s health. Even Donald Trump favours legalising cannabis for personal use in his home state of Florida.
The damage is done not by cannabis, but by criminalisation, which draws young people into gangs that deal it and from there towards hard drugs and imprisonment. The result is that society suffers a monster misdirection of police resources. Violent crime in London has increased almost every year for the past decade. There has been a rise in sexual assault, car and phone thefts and petty fraud. Shoplifting in London rose by an extraordinary 54% last year. Imagine how much time the police would have were they not spending so much of it stopping, searching, and testing people for drugs.
The truth is that what is lacking is not more reports or more brains, it is more guts. On drugs, Britain is still in the dark ages.
...(seen here in his greenhouse.)
But he does make several good points on decriminalisation:
...the divide in Britain is not between those “in favour” of cannabis and those against. It is between those who care about the impact of criminalisation and those who don’t, a subset of whom merely want to sound macho. In 2004 cannabis was reduced to class C but not decriminalised. Then, in 2009, Gordon Brown played tough and returned it to class B. The then home secretary sacked the government’s drug supremo, Prof David Nutt, for even breathing the word reform. By 2010 there were 43,000 convictions a year for drug possession, more than half of them for cannabis. An internal government report recommended decriminalisation in 2016 but was suppressed. The government even denied a freedom of information request, as if national security were at stake.
The UK is adrift in the western world in still wasting billions on its “war on drugs”. Half of US states have legalised and licensed cannabis, including cities such as New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In California there are cannabis cafes, cannabis farming estates and even cannabis sommeliers...more Americans today smoke cannabis than tobacco, including an astonishing five times more among those aged 18 to 34. There has been no noticeable collapse in American people’s health. Even Donald Trump favours legalising cannabis for personal use in his home state of Florida.
The damage is done not by cannabis, but by criminalisation, which draws young people into gangs that deal it and from there towards hard drugs and imprisonment. The result is that society suffers a monster misdirection of police resources. Violent crime in London has increased almost every year for the past decade. There has been a rise in sexual assault, car and phone thefts and petty fraud. Shoplifting in London rose by an extraordinary 54% last year. Imagine how much time the police would have were they not spending so much of it stopping, searching, and testing people for drugs.
The truth is that what is lacking is not more reports or more brains, it is more guts. On drugs, Britain is still in the dark ages.
like you could tell the diff., old man.You are much more reasonable when you're not high as a kite. Keep it up, its good for you.
That's still an awful paper. Using data for Canada from 2012, pre legalisation, and then assuming it's still true now is just absurd.
The author doesn't seem to be able to tell the difference between effects of marijuana and the effects of legalisation and just mixes the two freely.
How did this get published?
Terence Mckenna. Another wastrel, stuffing his face wi' 'shrooms all day.
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Get high on life man, it's way more exciting than any artificial short term high.
