Marijuana - legalise it?

Marijuana use is so common now that I’d say the side effects are currently there for all to see.

I’ve grew with people who smoked it from youth into middle age, they have common ‘issues’. Mental health is poor with elevated paranoia and they seem to live in a fantasy cartoon world. You can’t believe a word they say.
I remember my neighbour getting pulled for having no car insurance, he honestly thought someone had hacked his account and cancelled his insurance to get him in bother. Where the more realistic reason was his wife emptied his bank account to buy amphetamines.

Have tried it myself and really don’t like the anxiety and depression it caused, however only recently kicked the booze and come to realise that caused anxiety and depression too.

If it ever came to a referendum I’m not which way I’d vote tbh. It’s practically legal now anyways, and you can’t deny booze is every bit as bad.
 
Funny the anecdotes are always of mates that used being bagheads with issues. The people I know that have are all in decent jobs with families and are all fine.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
All of that happened in an illegal setting. Kids today find it easier to buy weed than alcohol which is strictly controlled and subject to quality standards, and there is ample information and education about its use.
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Also ample research about the long lasting damage it does to developing teenage brains
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
No. Why would people wait years for cannabis to be legalised only to see it as an opportunity to start breaking the law?
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The reality is taking drugs and driving is a much more difficult science to predict than drink driving.

I am not a scientist, but I am aware the body does excrete alcohol in a way that is known and generally can be predicted.

Drugs can be broken down into products which are unlawful to drive with for days and perhaps weeks after they were originally taken.

I hear stories all the time of people saying they took drugs at the weekend and can’t believe they are over the limit mid week when they are stopped by the police.

As I said earlier we need education re drug driving rather than making cannabis use lawful.
 
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ThatFragranceGuy said:
Funny the anecdotes are always of mates that used being bagheads with issues. The people I know that have are all in decent jobs with families and are all fine.
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It’s like all things in life. If you do things excessively, chances are those things may cause some issues - that includes alcohol, drugs, gambling etc.

I know a lot of people exactly the same. That said, they’re not excessively smoking morning, day and night. Often they may just use it to unwind on a weekend after a busy week etc.

I used to have an old housemate who used to wake up and roll one before his breakfast. He certainly had issues until he slowed down with it. Struggled to keep down a secure job as he was always arguing with management / paranoid people were out to get him etc.

I think his addiction to chocolate hob nobs was greater than his weed addiction, mind! 😆
 
Angus said:
The reality is taking drugs and driving is a much more difficult science to predict than drink driving.

I am not a scientist, but I am aware the body does excrete alcohol in a way that are generally can be predicted.

Drugs can be broken down into products which are unlawful to drive with for days and perhaps weeks after they were originally taken.

I hear stories all the time of people saying they took drugs at the weekend and can’t believe they are over the limit mid week when they are stopped by the police.

As I said earlier we need education re drug driving rather than making cannabis use lawful.
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Good point that, the last time I took any was in capsule form. I was mainly doing it to see if it took pain away from a chronic injury.

But unlike booze that was measured and the strength labelled the capsules could have been any strength at all. No idea at all what the half life was.
 
Ian Bairds Ears said:
I state this continually to friends
We have tobacco and alcohol no worries
Allow adults to make thro choice ref cannabis.
It's been used for 1000s of years by humanity for medical reasons for hallucinogenic reasons to calm people to make them laugh

Why not ? Is my answer
Alcohol is way way way way more destructive as a substance and is everywhere..
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We have tobacco and alcohol with plenty of worries. If either were invented tomorrow they would be much more heavily regulated.
 
Ian Bairds Ears said:
I state this continually to friends
We have tobacco and alcohol no worries
Allow adults to make thro choice ref cannabis.
It's been used for 1000s of years by humanity for medical reasons for hallucinogenic reasons to calm people to make them laugh

Why not ? Is my answer
Alcohol is way way way way more destructive as a substance and is everywhere..
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Totally agree, alcohol ruins lives and causes early death when heavily addicted, it causes people and those around them nothing but misery. In light moderation like alcohol Cannabis I suppose is OK, in a lot of cases even prescribed drugs do as much damage.

I've never got the idea of recreational drugs in anyway, its because I never took or used them. I do accept some drugs will probably be legalised in the not to distant future.
There's a lot of blokes my age coked up or in a stupor with cannabis and it isn't unusual and there seems to be a casual approach to it nowadays.

Through life my parents were spot on, I have kids and grandkids and have always felt I have the responsibility to act pretty straight and old fashioned I suppose.

I guess I'm a bit old school when it comes to drug users and drug peddlers. I feel like the places I once knew or areas of Teesside its people have changed massively and its took a nosedive and will probably never be the same again.

I used to enjoy couple of pints after playing football or the Boro pre- match, I have to admit, but no more than 2 or 3. I would never drive at all with even 1 beer in me.
 
My worry about legalization is what would happen with the dealers that currently make a lot of money out of it. Having an income stream removed like that would obviously lead them to seek an alternative income and I'm not sure what that would do in terms of increasing crime.
 
atypical_boro said:
It is a good post and my mind isn’t made up.

But, is the problem not that we’re just stuck with alcohol? Impossible to ban it now, even if it’s worse than some stuff that’s more illegal.

It would be a bold government that chose to supply heroin addicts with heroin to keep them out of jail, even if there’s logic to it.
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Switzerland did similar, de-criminalised drugs, health promotion, education. It's a much better way and leads to a reduction in use. In terms of heroin they hardly have a problem nowadays and use in younger people is practically non existent through being open and educating people.
 
really pointless criminalizing a plant that's been consumed for thousands of years and probably everywhere, including where they've tried to ban it. Why can't it just be left to the individual whether they decide to consume it or not?
 
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