Should Weed Be Legal?

[Crroma]

Middle aged alky fae dundee spotted ^^

[Sergeant Wilson]

19 hours ago, Crroma said:

I vividly remember seeing 2 middle aged men in a wetherspoons in dundee ordering a pint and a vodka each at half 8 in the morning and it was such a positive thing to experience. It made me realise that no matter how low I've gotten or how fed up with life I've ever felt that there were at least 2 scumbags that were significantly worse off than me.

You were still in Wetherspoons at 8.30.

[The Moonster]

4 minutes ago, Stinky Bone said:

I have been monitoring my blood pressure recently as the Doc deemed it high.  Up in the 170s+.  Stayed off the booze and it dropped lower, down to the 150s.  Smoked a couple of joints and it went into the 120s, back to normal.  Don't know why but it did. 

Pretty balanced article on that here - https://www.leafly.com/news/health/cannabis-high-blood-pressure-hypertension

Better studies need to be carried out to identify the link, but it does seem to have an effect on blood pressure. For me the biggest thing medically about cannabis is the ability to completly stop seizures. There's a video doing the rounds of a wee boy having one and about 30 seconds after his parent drops cannabis liquid in his mouth he's stopped. Anyone who thinks that shouldn't be available to people is an evil c**t.

[chomp my root]

10 minutes ago, throbber said:

 

I don’t disagree that alcohol is more harmful than weed but your argument was based on the fact that you constantly drank irresponsibly and it was as if this wasn’t your fault. I drink irresponsibly quite often, I don’t feel particularly bad for it though which is why I keep doing it!

 

Slainte brother.

[8MileBU]

And btw, weed is not an upper.

^^^ Still smokes foosty pollen IMO

[8MileBU]

Stop smoking nasty solid and get on the herbal!

Sativa strains can be an upper as they are the strains which will get you ‘high’. Indica strains are your downer and the strains where you’d be more likely to describe yourself as ‘stoned’.

[Boostin' Kev]

 

[tree house tam]

Amphetamine is where it's at, cheap as f**k and no sleep for days, canny beat it.

[Torpar]

Weed has been legal in Canada for three days now and so far the country hasn't fallen apart. Just like alcohol, weed will be sold by a company run by the provincial government (in Ontario at least), I believe they won't have an physical retail locations until 2020 but have an online store up and running which delivers to your door, providing someone over 19 can accept the package. The biggest concern at the moment seems to the threat of Canada Post going on strike and people not getting their orders. Even though it is now fully legal in Canada, I would still prefer not to look at the OCS website while at work, I think it will take sometime yet for a lot of people to openly admit they use weed

[Herman Hessian]

26 minutes ago, Torpar said:

Weed has been legal in Canada for three days now and so far the country hasn't fallen apart. Just like alcohol, weed will be sold by a company run by the provincial government (in Ontario at least), I believe they won't have an physical retail locations until 2020 but have an online store up and running which delivers to your door, providing someone over 19 can  figure out how to open both the internal and outer screen doors, - hinged in opposite directions, - to accept the package, then remember their name to sign for it and finally to actually take it indoors, rather than just handing it back to the courier and waving him a cheery goodbye...

FTFY

Edited October 19, 2018 by Herman Hessian

[8MileBU]

Weed has been legal in Canada for three days now and so far the country hasn't fallen apart. Just like alcohol, weed will be sold by a company run by the provincial government (in Ontario at least), I believe they won't have an physical retail locations until 2020 but have an online store up and running which delivers to your door, providing someone over 19 can accept the package. The biggest concern at the moment seems to the threat of Canada Post going on strike and people not getting their orders. Even though it is now fully legal in Canada, I would still prefer not to look at the OCS website while at work, I think it will take sometime yet for a lot of people to openly admit they use weed

In the news today that they’re running out already with many places closed because they’ve none left.

I fucking hate the dickheads running our country for not jumping on the legal weed bandwagon. The financial figures coming out of the USA since certain states legalised it are incredible.

[Torpar]

3 hours ago, Herman Hessian said:

FTFY

Thankfully for them, Canada Post never seem to deliver anytime for mid afternoon at least 

1 hour ago, 8MileBU said:

 

In the news today that they’re running out already with many places closed because they’ve none left.

I fucking hate the dickheads running our country for not jumping on the legal weed bandwagon. The financial figures coming out of the USA since certain states legalised it are incredible.

 

Much like alcohol, the province will tax the f**k out of it and make a tidy profit, otherwise they never would have legalised it. Justin Trudeau is a bit of cock but this is at least one pre-election promise he has actually followed through on, unlike his promises to improve job training and indigenous rights etc

[Tommy Nooka]

I do enjoy a wee smoke now and again but I've no longer got any contacts, feel free to PM me if anyone knows a man who can in the Glasgow southside area. It's a pain in the arse getting older and having an ever decreasing social circle.

Unfortunately doesn't look like we'll ever see it getting legalised here.

[Cerberus]

A free goody bag.

[The Moonster]

On 09/11/2018 at 18:27, Tommy Nooka said:

Unfortunately doesn't look like we'll ever see it getting legalised here.

Yes we will. The discussion is now reaching mainstream in the UK and once the facts are in front of people it becomes hard to argue against legalisation, unless you're a complete c**t (otherwise known as "a Tory").

[mathematics]

I always thought that legal weed, legal prostitution (solicitation thereof) and legal euthanasia would be more likely had Scotland voted "yes" in 2014. Still a while off with the Tories in charge.

[Barry Ferguson's Hat]

It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Weed. 

[101]

Is the punishment for dealing weed the same as any drug? And are there harsher penalties for giving it to kids? The reason I ask is that Fife has had a few high profile cases recently of very young people taking drugs and I think it’s pretty unlikely that you start out at hard drugs and that their dealer is probably pushing that harder drugs once they have tried weed and I think that needs a real crack down rather than the it’s only weed arguments. Possession alone (without intent to supply) if weed ought not involve the courts in the first instance a warning is fine for adults but children ought to be offered help. Regardless until we take the supply away from these gangsters they will continue to cause havoc. For most people the odd splif is fine it’s unlikely to have any health impacts but it cost society a huge amount as drugs like it or not fund human trafficking, terrorism and arms dealing. We need to legalise and control it at source like we do with booze and really should do with cigarettes  

[The Moonster]

2 minutes ago, Adam101 said:

Is the punishment for dealing weed the same as any drug? And are there harsher penalties for giving it to kids? The reason I ask is that Fife has had a few high profile cases recently of very young people taking drugs and I think it’s pretty unlikely that you start out at hard drugs and that their dealer is probably pushing that harder drugs once they have tried weed and I think that needs a real crack down rather than the it’s only weed arguments. Possession alone (without intent to supply) if weed ought not involve the courts in the first instance a warning is fine for adults but children ought to be offered help. Regardless until we take the supply away from these gangsters they will continue to cause havoc. For most people the odd splif is fine it’s unlikely to have any health impacts but it cost society a huge amount as drugs like it or not fund human trafficking, terrorism and arms dealing. We need to legalise and control it at source like we do with booze and really should do with cigarettes  

Weed is a Class B drug, so the punishment for dealing that would be the same as any other class B drug (ketamine, amphetamines, codeine etc.). Maximum penalty is 5 years in prison and a £2,500 fine. Unless they were actually caught in the act of supplying to kids then it's probably pretty hard for the police to prove. Legalising weed not only stops folk going to dodgy dealers but it also creates a huge tax which can (should) be used for the health and education issues that people worry will arise from it's legalisation.

[Father Ted]

Is the punishment for dealing weed the same as any drug? And are there harsher penalties for giving it to kids? The reason I ask is that Fife has had a few high profile cases recently of very young people taking drugs and I think it’s pretty unlikely that you start out at hard drugs and that their dealer is probably pushing that harder drugs once they have tried weed and I think that needs a real crack down rather than the it’s only weed arguments. Possession alone (without intent to supply) if weed ought not involve the courts in the first instance a warning is fine for adults but children ought to be offered help. Regardless until we take the supply away from these gangsters they will continue to cause havoc. For most people the odd splif is fine it’s unlikely to have any health impacts but it cost society a huge amount as drugs like it or not fund human trafficking, terrorism and arms dealing. We need to legalise and control it at source like we do with booze and really should do with cigarettes  

This makes perfect sense but will never happen under the Tories. This is the same party that got a working group full of specialised professors in drugs to investigate the matter.

When they came back with their findings, they sacked them as it didn't fit with their thoughts.

What a huge waste of money and time, and by the fact they asked these experts to look into it. They admitted they(Tory party) didn't have the expertise.

You couldn't make it up.

Profit from weed is much less than other drugs, hence why your dealer wants you to take things further. Plus the hassle factor for them is far greater with weed.

The ignorance that surrounds weed is astounding from general public and politicians.