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With cannabis it is less clear who will suffer adverse effects. Sorry but it's true. Sadly, most drug users are woefully uninformed about the dangers of drug taking - and don't want to know. Just like smoking and alcohol. Who'd have thought that people would continue smoking when it says on the packet that they could die from it.
so what if its murder, you do realise that is illegal the same as smoking cannabis
You'll probably always have rebellious teenagers dabbling in drugs, and students with their cannabis but not necessarily.
seeing as man has taken mind altering substances since the year dot ...why should it now be unacceptable?
and what is the POINT of illegality ...what has it achieved exactly?
good answer, the last one is particularly relevant, many of my drug using friends actually complained to the local MP cos there's nothing to do, i live in an area where the only thing to do for young people is play gaelic football, people around here have become so dissillusioned, their routine is come home from work, smoke spliffs and wait till the weekend till they take fatal amounts of drugs and repeat the process, i've also noticed that most of these people come from broken homes, abused as children and parents divorced, the drug problem runs very deep, so many influences, it'll never be resolved imo.
What's been achieved: less drug use probably. Like I said - legalisation is tacit approval.
It's sad though. I hope your MP took those views to Westminster.
but it's illegal stance makes it an attractive taboo, alot of poeple simply choose not to drink or smoke, even though it is legal, not everyoneis going to jump on the drug bandwagon if it was legal, most people despise drugs, i doubt they'll trun around and say "i always wanted to take drugs but said i hated them cos they were illegal", i could be wrong though.
we have a SF mp, they aren't really compassionate to young "joyriding hoods" as they call us and if there's problem within the community they use the balaclava and gun instead of politic to sort it out.
when it was legal only those who wanted to use it did so.
since it became illegal ...it has become glamorous ...a rebelious rock n roll thing to do ...it's seen as cool and now ...millions of people use it.
making the illegal drug trade worth the same ammount of money as the trade in arms and oil. but with a difference ...it's all cash in hand and tax free!
not bad for those at the top of the pile aye ...
true but there are a load of drug users who are attracted to them because they're illegal aswell. who knows if there are more or less on either side??
And I didn't mean less in terms of crude numbers, but less than would had they remained legal. They were made illegal for a reason.
it really isn't as easy as that, northern ireland is one of the few remaining countries where religion and morals are taken very seriously, and this party is so big that a handfulk of votes will do nothing, and the trouble is, the community agrees that shooting a teenager in the legs is better thasn say build a youth centre, its so fucked up, we are so angry, i have two friends that will never walk properly again because of it. i will write to the sevretary though, see what he'll do.
the hospitals are not bulging at the seams ...or the assylums either ...with drug users.
but the jails are bulging at the seams ...
i would have no problem with more people smoking cannabis and most police chiefs it seems wouldn't either.
the brewers and distillers and drug companies are the main opponents of legalising cannabis ...for obvious reasons.
Do write to this chap.
You can always spoil your ballot paper by writing a comment in the box next to the Sinn Fein candidate's name. Everything written on a ballot paper gets read out at the count - you can shame them in front of the other candidates. If you write "This guy doesn't listen to his constituents" it'll be read out because they have to decide if the voter meant it is a vote.
I went to a count for a local election once and it was hilarious what some people put on their ballots. Smiley faces seemed quite common.
cos those with alcohol are the ones who will cause all the trouble whilst those with a little weed are only there to enjoy themselves in a peacful manner ...
brilliant, i'm coming 18 in 2 weeks so i'll be elligable for the next election, though i think my comment will be alot worse than "this guy doesn't listen to his constituents"
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not sure about healthier but definately more peaceful.
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As I said, legalisation would be tacit approval, which doesn't sit well with the whole concept of public health.
Should public health initiatives be banned?