Originally posted by dazza666I would think that if you can't show some respect for your fellow man who has to read your musings and can't bother to make yourself understood by normal, literate people, then you probably shouldn't be amazed when they tell you they can't be bothered to read your typographically-challenged tripe.
tut tut, who givs a dam how u spell somethin on the internet?! oh yes only sad people! lol. if your so stupid and pathetic that you want to be an idiot and argue how sum1 spells something just for arguments sake, rather than talk about the issue at hand- that we shud be talkin about, then go away and bother sum 1 else!
it wud be nice to actually have an ...[text shortened]... s and cons of the LEGALISATION OR DOWNGRADING OF CANNABIS
anyone else that doesnt go elsewhere!
In short, if you want to be taken seriously, please learn how to communicate like a human being.
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Originally posted by SuzianneWOT R U TALKIN ABOT
I would think that if you can't show some respect for your fellow man who has to read your musings and can't bother to make yourself understood by normal, literate people, then you probably shouldn't be amazed when they tell you they can't be bothered to read your typographically-challenged tripe.
In short, if you want to be taken seriously, please learn how to communicate like a human being.
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One might very well contend that the ban on cannabis ought to be put in the balance against the loss of personal freedom; governments should respect individual free will and the right of self-determination. However, by taking an ostensibly moral stand against cannabis, clearly politicians seek cynically to gain more votes. The ban does not stop people smoking cannabis, nor does it stop producers, traffickers, dealers &c. Furthermore, prices are kept artificially high because of the illegal status of cannabis. By providing legal supplies of cannabis, the price would most likely fall, and in fact the use of cannabis might well fall, too, on account of the removal of the “marketing” activities of the illegal drug industry. Health care costs would drop as well, through standardization of drug purity by state-sponsored production and supply. Cigarettes now come with graphic warnings such as pictures of diseased lungs, aged skin and so on. Drinks are clearly labelled with the number of units in a bottle/can. Prescription drugs come with a leaflet that lists their active and inactive ingredients. Cannabis, too, could be supplied by the state with appropriate warnings and purity levels clearly marked.
Do I think it should be legalized, then? NO WAY! As a student some 20-odd years ago I ingested my fair share of it, admittedly, but the stuff on the streets now bears scant relation to that innocent weed. The kids nowadays are smoking hydroponically forced “skunk” varietals which contain hugely greater concentrations of THC. Moreover, cannabis very often has other substances added to it (such as PCP.)
As a teacher in South London, I see the effects of cannabis at first hand every day, and it's truly frightening. It's making our kids slow, deficient in attention and prone to violent outbursts. In 1987 I played a tourney while slightly stoned, and castled my Queen. That's funny. In 2007 I saw a 15-year old boy stabbed in the lung outside a school by another pupil who it turned out had just smoked a water-pipe of skunk on the 250 bus from Thornton Heath to Croydon. That's tragic.
Let's keep the ban, and – for the sake of all our futures - do our level best to uphold it.
Why not decriminalize everything? It would save much time and money. No prisons, no police force. People who want to take drugs then could demand that the government provide it for them, pedophiles and rapists could do their own thing. Kids wouldn't even have to go to school unless they wanted to. Back to the laws of the jungle! In fact we would not even need a government. Abortions on demand. Kill off the elderly...the disabled...the mentally imbalanced..ethnic groups you don't like....all Christians...hmm. I think this was already done somewhere, sometime.
Originally posted by ale1552Yeah! Let's criminalize everything! If we don't, where does the buck STOP?
Why not decriminalize everything? It would save much time and money. No prisons, no police force. People who want to take drugs then could demand that the government provide it for them, pedophiles and rapists could do their own thing. Kids wouldn't even have to go to school unless they wanted to. Back to the laws of the jungle! In fact we would not even ...[text shortened]... ups you don't like....all Christians...hmm. I think this was already done somewhere, sometime.
