Never mind the health risks - lets concentrate on the money

[original PM]

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.

[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

[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.

[BrilloPad]

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

Switzerland could start with de-criminalising Ginseng.

[DodgyAgent]

Some one profits from this trade, and the trade is here to stay.
Either thieving low life scumbags who take pleasure in screwing every last penny out of poor innocent victims, or drug dealers

[original PM]

Leaked Treasury report reveals legalised cannabis could be worth hundreds of millions to the Exchequer - Telegraph

And if it does make people very ill, that will probably only show itself years down the line, so someone else's issue to deal with...

Alternatively it has also been shown to have health benefits in a wide range of situations.

And if you legalise it then people can get it easily without exposing themselves to more 'seedy' drugs (which btw is not really that much of a thing anyway) also if you make it legal it removes the 'buzz' of being a 'rebel' which may mean less use anyway.

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

[EternalOptimist]

Some one profits from this trade, and the trade is here to stay.
Either thieving low life scumbags who take pleasure in screwing every last penny out of poor innocent victims, or drug dealers

[NotAllThere]

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

[VectraMan]

The Blakes 7 scenario

Everything in Blakes 7 will come true. You'll see.

[MicrosoftBob]

With people living longer and the population increasing wholesale drugging of the populace is the only way future governments are going to be able to keep order.

So this is just a time saver.

The Blakes 7 scenario

[Gumbo Robot]

Leaked Treasury report reveals legalised cannabis could be worth hundreds of millions to the Exchequer - Telegraph

And if it does make people very ill, that will probably only show itself years down the line, so someone else's issue to deal with...

There's a lot of evidence to suggest that certain mental health issues like schizophrenia can manifest themselves through regular cannabis use. Conditions which otherwise may have remained dormant.

I guess that happens after many years of caning the weed though so, like alcohol, it's all about responsible use.

Why shouldn't grown up people enjoy the odd spliff without being criminalised?

[VectraMan]

With people living longer and the population increasing wholesale drugging of the populace is the only way future governments are going to be able to keep order.

So this is just a time saver.

[filthy1980]

Leaked Treasury report reveals legalised cannabis could be worth hundreds of millions to the Exchequer - Telegraph

And if it does make people very ill, that will probably only show itself years down the line, so someone else's issue to deal with...

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[BrilloPad]

Leaked Treasury report reveals legalised cannabis could be worth hundreds of millions to the Exchequer - Telegraph

And if it does make people very ill, that will probably only show itself years down the line, so someone else's issue to deal with...