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I just signed the petition, “Please save my son Alfie by allowing him to legally use medical cannabis!.” I think this is important. Will you sign it too?
Here’s the link:
https://www.change.org/p/please-save-my-son-alfie-by-allowing-him-to-legally-use-medical-cannabis?utm_medium=email&utm_source=petition_signer_receipt&utm_campaign=triggered&share_context=signature_receipt&recruiter=472444098Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
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"Last year, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) classed CBD as a medicine in the UK. "
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
It's only a matter of time before the whole lot is legalised, regulated, taxed, and treated as a health concern. Sooner the bloody better if you ask me.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
As for getting high, jesus wept. Anyone who thinks that's a coherent argument needs to be put on the painkiller stack I was prescribed a few years back - I was off. my. tiny. tits. For months. Then I no longer needed any of it so I stopped taking it all and then the real fun began.
Bear in mind this is the 'safe, controlled' (i.e. synthetic) stuff you get down the GP's.
It's a bullshit stance and it really is only a matter of time.
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There is a growing body of "evidence" to suggest that cannabis really could be a game changer in so many walks of life. My Aunt has had MS for the last 30 years and its really starting to beat her now, but she imports CBD oil/paste/vape and it has given her some measure of her life back and has been a better pain relief drug than anything they can giver here that's synthetic
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Not just medicinally though - recreationally too. The amount of money that's pissed down the drain chasing, convicting, and imprisoning. The number of people who get caught up and tarnished for life. Hell, even the inconsistent way in which the law is applied - here in Manchester you'd have to try very, very hard to get nicked for a half-ounce of weed. In fact I think they've actually given up on soft drug users altogether. Nip down the road to a small town in Derbyshire, find a bored copper, and that half-ounce is going to land you in potentially very deep shit.
The whole system's flawed and any amount of research into the matter shows that. How many countries, even very conservative (small-c) states in the US, are going to beat us to the punch before Paul Dacre stops dictating drugs policy in the UK?
I understand the dangers of drug use, and the damage it causes - but people who are at risk (kids smashing joint after joint of heavyweight weed because they're bored witless, heroin users escaping their shitty realities, the coked-up banker who's terrified of losing his job) need to be treated not as criminals, but as a health and social care concern.
You are *not* going to stop them taking drugs by keeping them illegal, all it does is hand the incentive and profit to the criminal gangs.
I'm sorry @thomasross20 - I ran a bit off-piste with that one.
Once they can work out how to tax it it will be legal anyway. Look forward to town centres ridding themselves of gangs of pissed pillocks wanting a fight to be replaced with smaller groups bumbling around eating kitkats and apologising for bumping into each other.
Not only would the extra tax income be huge, but it would of also remove the "gateway drug", it would stop teens getting on first name terms with a local dealer so they can have a smoke and could prevent an introduction in to both petty crime and harder drugs.
Same with the sex industry, why not just make it legal and above board, tax it, give the workers a safe environment and remove the layer of crime and criminals that control it.
Given that legalising drugs properly would virtually destroy organised crime overnight, you sometimes have to wonder who is paying who to keep them illegal...
The benefits of legalisation, regulation and taxation of *all* drugs - not just the ‘soft’ ones - are staggering, and far above any possible cost, even though many of them *are* harmful, even in properly controlled form. (But so are tobacco and alcohol.)
There are even less obvious benefits, such as removing the market for dangerous ‘legal highs’ which wouldn’t exist if the real drugs were available legally and cheaply.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself