What is your view on cannabis?

[velvet]

Not totally certain about that - the link to hemp (although not being the exact same thing) always for a ban on the cultivation of that despite as you say not having the same properties, and considering the fact that plastics and fuel industries are all run by the oil market (easily the biggest market on earth) I'd say that their fears over proven cheap/easy/safe production of a challenger are a much bigger obstacle for cannabis legalisation than big pharma's worry that they can't control something that might help with a few illnesses but wouldn't collapse them

to be fair i don't know much about those things in the UK, i've only looked at hemp legalization worldwide.
know what i'm gunna research tomorrow, haha

[Kardan]

it is completely harmless if you make the drug an edible or vaporize it. if you are choosing to inhale smoke, then that is your choice. you are choosing a harmful method of consumption. anything that turns into smoke is carcinogenic, it is not a harmful factor exclusive to marijuana. you are actually so uneducated on this topic, i'm not going to waste my time trying to convince you otherwise. please go read up a bit on the subject then we can debate

Guns are completely harmless if you don't shoot them.
Cars are completely harmless as long as you don't get hit by one/crash one.

You're missing my point, it is not completely harmless. I'm not saying it's exclusive to cannabis

[Adam]

i wrote no, but then thought about it a bit and i think this is the reason:

if people start smoking weed, they have to go to a dealer. there is hardly any money in weed since you can't cut it with other stuff and such, so most dealers also sell other drugs. by buying weed, people then have easy access to harder drugs (dealers will often text their phonebook with what they have coming in).

so the problem isn't cannabis as such, it's the access cannabis gives to dealers.

i think people who take harder drugs will have always have taken them, whether they smoked weed or not.
i know personally that my choice to try harder drugs in the past was not influenced by the fact that i'd tried weed at all, as weed isn't really comparable to other substances.

So for any reason be it ease of access to harder drugs it's pretty much the same road that most drug users go down? The reason I say this is with cigarettes and alcohol being legalised and taxed, so you don't need to go to a dealer who has access to harder drugs, surely a logical step would be making the pretty much harmless cannabis legal. I don't smoke, never have never will but I don't look down on those who do. When people say cannabis is less harmful than alcohol I tend to agree.

Surely if making cannabis legal it will partly shut off the road to the harder drugs? I'm just spitballing, tell me if I'm taking ****.

[velvet]

So for any reason be it ease of access to harder drugs it's pretty much the same road that most drug users go down? The reason I say this is with cigarettes and alcohol being legalised and taxed, so you don't need to go to a dealer who has access to harder drugs, surely a logical step would be making the pretty much harmless cannabis legal. I don't smoke, never have never will but I don't look down on those who do. When people say cannabis is less harmful than alcohol I tend to agree.

Surely if making cannabis legal it will partly shut off the road to the harder drugs? I'm just spitballing, tell me if I'm taking ****.

completely right :}

[AgnesIO]

Legalise it but ban the smoking of it then?

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[Adam]

Legalise it but ban the smoking of it then?

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I haven't really been following the thread in detail but what would this achieve?

[peteyt]

So for any reason be it ease of access to harder drugs it's pretty much the same road that most drug users go down? The reason I say this is with cigarettes and alcohol being legalised and taxed, so you don't need to go to a dealer who has access to harder drugs, surely a logical step would be making the pretty much harmless cannabis legal. I don't smoke, never have never will but I don't look down on those who do. When people say cannabis is less harmful than alcohol I tend to agree.

Surely if making cannabis legal it will partly shut off the road to the harder drugs? I'm just spitballing, tell me if I'm taking ****.

I fear legalising one drug might just make some people move onto the next drug. Lots of people seem to take loads of different stuff, meow, M Cat etc. I know a few who take these as a form of rebellion. The problem is we can't legalise all drugs as while it's debatable how dangerous Cannabis actually is there are many hard drugs that are hard illegal drugs that are illegal for a reason.

I do think legalising could work but there will always be a problem sadly.

[Camy]

I'm my opinion, it should be legal and taxed. It's less harmful than alcohol, and cigarettes.

I haven't really had time to read the whole thread, so I'm not going to list everything I know about it, incase it's already been talked about, but I looked into Cannabis alot before I even thought about trying it. This video was one of the first things I looked at and I really recommend it.

[Adam]

I fear legalising one drug might just make some people move onto the next drug. Lots of people seem to take loads of different stuff, meow, M Cat etc. I know a few who take these as a form of rebellion. The problem is we can't legalise all drugs as while it's debatable how dangerous Cannabis actually is there are many hard drugs that are hard illegal drugs that are illegal for a reason.

I do think legalising could work but there will always be a problem sadly.

I think it's to do with people's perspective about certain drugs. As I said everyone who I've talked to about this are of the opinion that cannabis is less harmful than alcohol and therefore should be legal however harder drugs should be illegal because they are harmful and they can be full of anything (easier to cut harder drugs up with ****e). I don't claim to be the bearer of all knowledge but is it that people use cannabis BECAUSE it's a virtually harmless drugs and THEN go on to harder drugs because of the association that cannabis currently has?

[peteyt]

I think it's to do with people's perspective about certain drugs. As I said everyone who I've talked to about this are of the opinion that cannabis is less harmful than alcohol and therefore should be legal however harder drugs should be illegal because they are harmful and they can be full of anything (easier to cut harder drugs up with ****e). I don't claim to be the bearer of all knowledge but is it that people use cannabis BECAUSE it's a virtually harmless drugs and THEN go on to harder drugs because of the association that cannabis currently has?

It depends really. Some people don't give a crap and would rather use the most dangerous. I just wonder if people who take it as a form of rebelling will possibly move onto something else.