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And, having sat in an entirely avoidable traffic jam on the A34 for several hours, I've had time to ponder further.
Once it became legal pharmaceutical companies could develop drugs that gave the desired effect, for a dialled in time, and that were not addictive and relatively safe (in the same way cigarettes and alcohol are relatively 'safe' at least). Entirely possible I'm sure.

WE don't need to defend ourselves in the UK, the STATE does that job for us - hence items carried for self defence being classed as "offensive weapons" under UK law

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snayperskaya wrote:I watched The Americas with Simon Reeve the other night and he went to a small town in Colorado where cannabis had been legalised and was available from a dispensary.The police officer he was with said drug-related crime had reduced to virtually zero and the tax revenue it generated had been put back into the town and its infrastructure etc had been massively improved as a result.

I was in Colorado Springs last year and the standard of driving was absolutely terrifying. Everywhere we went we were overtaken by drivers who seemed to be in some sort of manic state, and it was a waste of time driving at 70 MPH as you were considered by the locals to be a bloody idiot who was getting in the way.
Can't help but think that many of them were smashed out of their heads on weed, (judging by the smell everywhere we went).
Yup, it's totally illegal to drive under the influence of drink, but many people we spoke to actually believed that they weren't affected in any way buy the odd joint or two. So didn't view it in the same way as drink driving.
Where I live we see the local eejits picking up their weed from outside the local pub. We have even seen them outside to local shops dealing to the kids coming out of the school. And we then see/hear the screeching of tyres all through the summer evenings as they race around the estate, burning rubber and generally making the world a more dangerous place.

Legalising would take the criminality away, but I wouldn't want to be working in any government facility that was taking the business away from the local dealers. Fire Brigade would be a bit busier methinks, not to mention the huge increase in people actually taking up smoking cannabis.
Only have to look at vaping to see that. Even kids that didn't smoke were buying a vape to make them look cool.

snayperskaya wrote:I watched The Americas with Simon Reeve the other night and he went to a small town in Colorado where cannabis had been legalised and was available from a dispensary.The police officer he was with said drug-related crime had reduced to virtually zero and the tax revenue it generated had been put back into the town and its infrastructure etc had been massively improved as a result.

Simon Reeve is touring at the moment. Well worth seeing if you can get a ticket. A truly inspirational speaker.

snayperskaya wrote:I watched The Americas with Simon Reeve the other night and he went to a small town in Colorado where cannabis had been legalised and was available from a dispensary.The police officer he was with said drug-related crime had reduced to virtually zero and the tax revenue it generated had been put back into the town and its infrastructure etc had been massively improved as a result.

You would have thought that if the legal companies had a nice clean safe drug for buyers to use that illegal cultivation would decrease .

The number of plants seized on public lands increased. There were 80,926 plants seized in 2017, up 73% from 46,662 in 2012.