Nick Clegg backs campaign calling for medical use of Cannabis

[Richeh]

And here we have the "I don't like it and am uneducated on the matter" brigade chiming in.

Please read up on stuff before making comments like this. It'll save you looking a bit dim in future, given that almost all medicinal marijuana is in tablet form and has no smell whatsoever.

Although I agree with your first point are you just referring to UK medical cannabis forms there? As tablet form is one of the least used in America. Smoking, vaping, eating and dabbing etc are still the most used forms.

 

[Klo]

And here we have the "I don't like it and am uneducated on the matter" brigade chiming in.

Please read up on stuff before making comments like this. It'll save you looking a bit dim in future, given that almost all medicinal marijuana is in tablet form and has no smell whatsoever.

The discussion has moved beyond medical usage and instead more general legalisation.

Not liking the smell is as valid as any other pro or con, I hate the smell of cigarette smoke when walking around anywhere.

 

[edGfaCTor]

Possibly a stupid question but for those medical cases, can't they just put cannabis (cannabinoids?) into pill form and make it into a prescription medication? Unless that's what the article is proposing and I was just too lazy to read it

There is one and a spray the problem is again the bloody pharm companies greedy with prices it's few huundred £ for just a spray.

 

[Janesy B]

It is not possible to tax cannabis in the same way they tax alcohol because cannabis doesn't have any trademarks.

There's nothing stopping the government imposing a 20% duty on Coca Cola if they wanted.

 

[crinkleshoes]

Government doesn't allow this stuff for a reason - just use a legal synthetic version. It's much safer....

What reason? Exactly?

Kindly quote your source which is verifiable by scientific peer review...

 

[crinkleshoes]

Good, it's getting hard to find now.

No it isn't

 

[crinkleshoes]

Blah blah blah... ban human nature... blah blah blah

OK... "illegal" issues fixed... now we have the issue that life no longer exists... oh... wait... we can't make that an issue because there is no one to enforce it... oh well

 

[bitslice]

The Government will only make it legal when they have a good reason to sedate the population en-masse.

Beware Greeks bearing gifts.

 

[bloodiedathame]

Nick Clegg looking to get back all those lost Lib Dem voters...

Pot smoking students

 

[cheesyboy]

What reason? Exactly?

Kindly quote your source which is verifiable by scientific peer review...

To be honest, I was simply being glib. Riffing on the idea that the government's purported effort to protect its citizens from the horrors of cannabis etc actually incubates an environment where potentially (and often actually) more dangerous 'legal' alternatives are given a market.

I probably should have made it more obvious. Was too close to the way some people actually think.

 

[Tuppy_Glossop]

This for me too.

However it will depend on the development of a reliable brethylizer for canabis rather than urine tests for road/site safety reasons.

I think they have already had a reliable mouth swab test for a couple of years.

 

[helpimcrap]

On another take - why not?

Alcohol and tobacco are drugs and legal and cause a lot of deaths.

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Because it's still a trademarked process going on to produce different brands of tobacco products. Like the addition of chemicals which keep the cigarette lit for example, among many other chemicals and processes, as well as the addition of cardboard pulp and other **** found in cigarettes.

Cannabis is still a pure drug you smoke straight off the plant with no blending/further processing/secret recipes. I don't want capitalist corporations creating processes to chemicalise and trademark it and polluting/exploiting the natural purity of cannabis.

It really is scary what you read on the interwebs. I would lay off the "Super Silver Haze" if I were you

 

[Rilot]

While it's good that another MP is championing this, Nick Clegg has no power. The headline is pretty much thus "Man supports legalisation of medical Cannabis".

Lots of these studies always come back with the same findings but government just go "That's nice, No".

 

[Sliver]

Legalise all drugs and take the game away from organised crime.

 

[Freakbro]

While it's good that another MP is championing this, Nick Clegg has no power. The headline is pretty much thus "Man supports legalisation of medical Cannabis".

Lots of these studies always come back with the same findings but government just go "That's nice, No".

You would think the change of attitudes in America would have more bearing on the issue now though, especially since the US has always had even less tolerance to drugs than we have.

 

[asim18]

It really is scary what you read on the interwebs. I would lay off the "Super Silver Haze" if I were you

Cigarettes from some places self extinguish and some don't. Whether one or both require chemical additives means there is a chemical which has an effect on how a cigarette burns. This is a physical observance and nothing to do with reading anything on the internet.

For the second point you only need to empty out a cigarette to realise there are all kinds of crap mixed in there. The paper pulp filler material is obvious just from the texture and makes up about 20-40% of the material in a cigarette. You also often find huge chunks of rock hard bark. Again, a physical observance and nothing to do with reading anything on the internet.

 

[Rilot]

You would think the change of attitudes in America would have more bearing on the issue now though, especially since the US has always had even less tolerance to drugs than we have.

Until it becomes legal at a federal level, nothing with change in the EU or UK and even then I find it unlikely due to the high proportion of DM-reading NIMBYs.

 

[Sliver]

Until it becomes legal at a federal level, nothing with change in the EU or UK and even then I find it unlikely due to the high proportion of DM-reading NIMBYs.

Cannabis has been legalised in some US states with the rest probably following suit at some point. What happens in America tends to follow here in the UK. I think the weight of public opinion about legalisation of cannabis is growing here and that will inevitably force the governments hand at some point.

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Cigarettes from some places self extinguish and some don't. Whether one or both require chemical additives means there is a chemical which has an effect on how a cigarette burns. This is a physical observance and nothing to do with reading anything on the internet.

For the second point you only need to empty out a cigarette to realise there are all kinds of crap mixed in there. The paper pulp filler material is obvious just from the texture and makes up about 20-40% of the material in a cigarette. You also often find huge chunks of rock hard bark. Again, a physical observance and nothing to do with reading anything on the internet.

Rolling tobacco ? And it goes without saying that the special tobacco you buy from a "friend" is 100% pure isn't?

Like I said I'd lay off the weed.For what its worth I agree to legalise it under the regulations already mentioned. But to suggest you can't tax it is absurd.