Should've said certain drugs really, only caught the arse end of the news, Cannabis was mentioned. I don't think any of the rubbish should be legalised, personally I don't agree with any of it.
Alcohol causes much more damage "pound for pound" to the body than what cannabis does, and that's before we include the people who end up in hospital because some drunken idiot decides to shove a glass in their face.
If cannabis was really that bad, then I doubt for one minute my doctor would have told me to "smoke as much as I can" in the 9 months leading up to my surgery last year.
I personally see no problem with cannabis being legalised for use in the home, and at the current street rates (£20 gets you 1.6 grams) the government could make a killing overnight with the tax.
Alcohol may well cause damage as well, and I agree it's no good really either. However a good friend of mine after being on cannabis for years turned into a completely different paranoid bloke, constantly having panic attacks and feeling like a fruit loop. So yes, I do see a problem with it being legalised in anyway shape or form.
The real problem imo is the strength of what is smoked.
Some people have been smoking dope as a way of relaxing or in a social gathering for years with no ill effects.
Then again, a very good mate of mine from my school days who has used it since we was kids is totally oppsed up because of the amount he has smoked over the years.
He, as most users started off will a spliff or 2 on a weekend with his mates.
As cigarettes became more expensive, he started to roll his own. Soon it became too easy to slip a little dope in there. Next came "skunk"
Nowdays, he has gone from the kid that everybody at school wanted to be too the kid from school that everybody avoids like the plague
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