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All drugs destroy lives. Generally Cannabis leads on to heavier drugs so in my opinion there should
not be a class system! Anyone found in possession or selling should do prison. Drugs destroy lives
and kill |
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I didn't know whether to post for or against because I am completely against the banning of any drug
whatsoever... I'll just post here though, to avoid being associated with the self-righteous ones. |
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Well, I am ignorant on marijuana/cannabis where you call that stuff.
Which I think is the right kind of ignorant to be.
But, OK, trying to think outside the box or the bigger picture?
Well, it seems like if its legal it will remove the teenagers predilection to do it.
Always doing whatever the adults say no to.
But?
If it makes people stupid intellectually and high?
Should remain illegal.
Except cancer patients for a painkiller because they are going to die anyway. |
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Gordon Brown did this for one reason, vote winning. When labour had a huge majority they could
change the grading of weed to C for fair reasons. Now that Brown is struggling he will follow
whatever the tabloids tell him to do in a desperate attempt to stay in power. There has been some
research to suggest that it can lead to schizophenia with the stronger hybrids, but the scientific
body who advised Brown actually said that there was no need to upgrade weed to cat B. He did it
anyway because he is spineless.
The reason it should be downgraded, in my opinion, is that many professional people, who hold down
steady jobs, are good parents, and good, honest citizens smoke it. If they are caught they
automatically get a criminal record that could seriously hamper their chances in life. All because
they prefer a spliff when they get home to relax rather than a glass of wine. No one steals to
support it, or kills when high, or overdoses. It is mainly harmless. Especially when you consider
Tobacco and Alcohol are legal.
The reasoning to suggest that weed is a "gateway" drug that leads to harder stuff is wonky to say
the least. Perhaps it even supports legalising it. If you could buy it at Boots or Superdrug (that
would be more apt) then you would never be introduced to the nasty dealers. Also the super skunk
could be outlawed, people would be happy with a milder high than that vicious stuff. I am. |
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There's more to this than just its health effects. The police themselves have admitted that they
have near-enough no intention of enforcing the stricter laws because it wastes time that could be
better diverted to catching real criminals or getting heroin or crack off the streets. And I highly
doubt many are going to be put off smoking cannabis by this reclassification - they will only end up
(if caught) further over-populating our already overcrowded prisons. |
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 Carl  07 May 2008 19:38
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All drugs should have the same punishment they are all drugs in the end. |
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Cannabis should be completely legalised. Its presence is tolerated in the Netherlands and they don't
seem to have been adversely affected by mass outbreaks of public insanity. I haven't looked at the
studies claiming a link with schizophrenia in any detail but I am highly sceptical of those claims.
I suspect that if you looked with similar rigour at almost anything that is consumed, Mars bars say,
or cider, you could find similar marginal associations with unpleasant conditions.
In any case, it's not possible to do a properly controlled examination of this issue in most
countries because cannabis is illegal. Therefore, among the population of users, you are already
selecting for criminality of some sort. There is probably an above-chance correlation between
criminality on the one hand and having mental health problems on the other.
Also, if the claimed link with schizophrenia was to be taken seriously, why has there been no
noticeable rise in the number of schizophrenia cases in line with the growing consumption of
cannabis in the last few decades?
As for the "slippery slope" argument, that taking cannabis leads to taking other, harder drugs
later, first of all, who cares? If people want to take drugs, let them. Second, it hasn't happened
that way in the Netherlands. Third, in so far as there is a slippery slope, it will come about
because the initial cannabis use led to connections being formed with illegal drug dealers. If the
cannabis was available in legal outlets, those connections would never have been formed and, for
most people, the progression to harder drugs would never have taken place. In the Netherlands, rates
of drug use for a wide variety of drugs, including cannabis, are actually lower than they are in
countries where cannabis use is prosecuted. |
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Well if you smoke all away and not lollygag
then it's gone-that's no longer possession. |
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It all depends on what you value more, physical health or mental health. Class B is fine by me. So
many small time drug users find they like the stuff and then foray into more dangerous substances.
It is a prominent catalyst for drug addiction and abuse, in this country and others. It is
ridiculously easy to get hold of as I'm sure you're aware, considering the amount of people we know
who smoke it regularly, and making the consequences more severe could help nip drug use from an
early age in the bud, in turn dramatically lowering the number of drug users. |
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An excellent point by chaew. To further strengthen this point I will say that many studies have been
carried out which show that cannabis deteriorates your alertness and can lead to schizophrenia, and
this is because it is much stronger than it was in the 60's and so on. |
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Carl, although I agree with you that it is less harmful than tobacco, on another level it is much
more harmful as it begins the steady decline into drug abuse. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying
that everyone who smokes weed is a drug addict, but all drug addicts start off on weed. |
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