Never mind the health risks - lets concentrate on the money

[BrilloPad]

Decriminalising all drugs would be beneficial to society - reduce crime, deepen the gene pool.

Switzerland could start with de-criminalising Ginseng.

[SpontaneousOrder]

Would be a step in the right direction, as far as i'm concerned, for health risks.

I dunno about cannabis, but loads of people get ****ed up or die because the illegality of the good stuff means they end up taking the bad stuff.

Plus there'd be fewer drug dealers stabbing people.

[d000hg]

And the long term effects are far less dangerous than alcohol.

I don't know that's really been proved, and it's very hard to compare like-for-like anyway. Comparing someone who has a spliff in the evening with someone who drinks 1/2 bottle of vodka in the evening is hardly fair, but it seems like heavy pot smokers are definitely a few pence short in most cases!

Plus there'd be fewer drug dealers stabbing people.

In the short term there might be extremely desperate drug dealers, more inclined to being stabby

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I don't know that's really been proved, and it's very hard to compare like-for-like anyway. Comparing someone who has a spliff in the evening with someone who drinks 1/2 bottle of vodka in the evening is hardly fair, but it seems like heavy pot smokers are definitely a few pence short in most cases!

In the short term there might be extremely desperate drug dealers, more inclined to being stabby

So you could compare heavy pot smoker to someone who does drink half a bottle of vodka a day -- and I would say the half bottle of vodka a day person would be easier to spot!

Also a spliff is like a pint - 2 or 3 in the evening is fine

drinking from the moment you get up to when you go to bed and getting through 15-20 pints a day is bad as is smoking doob all day

it is really difficult to get completely fooked up on doob as you simply cannot ingest enough in a short space of time to cause the same level of inebriation that you get when drinking.