Cannabis

Originally posted by Crowley
Oh please, it differs so much much from person to person, you can't say that.
I've never gotten paranoid, depressed or any other real side effect.
I just get sleepy...

If you smoke a "normal" tobacco cigarette you don't experience lungcancer either. You get those diseases using these products.
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Originally posted by latex bishop
I wont smoke dope for one single reason, I quit smoking and that is a sure far path back to the dark side.

I have always found it a very weak argument that the majority of the population must be deprived of something as a minority are unable to act in a civilised way.

It seems the whole of our society is being dragged to the lowest common denomina ...[text shortened]... - these are not good trends for the direction our contries seem to be going, are they?

Andrew

Well said.

Originally posted by latex bishop
I wont smoke dope for one single reason, I quit smoking and that is a sure far path back to the dark side.

I have always found it a very weak argument that the majority of the population must be deprived of something as a minority a ...[text shortened]... r the direction our contries seem to be going, are they?

Andrew

The trouble with legalising hasj and marihuana is that young kids get the impression that using these drugs is OK because the government says it is ok, otherwise they would not have legalised the stuff.

Originally posted by ivanhoe
The trouble with legalising hasj and marihuana is that young kids get the impression that using these drugs is OK because the government says it is ok, otherwise they would not have legalised the stuff.

I doubt government policy will have much impact on the actions on young kids. My understanding is that you cant buy tobacco in the UK till you are 16 anyway, so unless these kids are smoking pure grass, it is a failure of the government to control tobacco sales to children that should be the real issue rather than kids on the dope. A lot of current "legal" activities leave kids with a bad impressions anyway.

Legalising dope has nothing to do with welfare issues regarding children, it is about the right of adults to make responsible decisions in their own place of residence. The only way the government can effectively police a child wanting to kid hold of dope is to legalise it and control its sale. Do we really trust the current fail safe of a dealer having the morals not to sell to a 15 year old child?

Andrew