Make cannabis a Class A Drug, say Conservative Police Commissioners...

Rannoch said:
Round these parts the price of cannabis has dropped considerably if your buying an ounce so I'm told.
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It’s to the point where you’ve got street dealers selling super dense powerful stuff for bang for buck cheaply, and more local high brow dealers literally having menus with different strains.
 
Yet another good reason why police and crime commissioners should be abolished. Such a pointless waste of money to politicise policing and add a
Layer of unnecessary nonsense.

The only people benefitting are the police and crime commissioners and there staff drawing juicy salaries for contributing nothing to society.
 
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Dis86 said:
This has to be one of the dumbest posts yet.

Alcohol abuse is a massive problem in this country. Over half a million people were admitted to hospital with alcohol as the primary cause. Nearly 200,000 people are in treatment due to alcohol abuse. People are unable to do their jobs because they're so drunk. That's why you have things like mandatory drug and alcohol testing...

People can't self regulate. That's why alcohol charities exist. That's why one of the police are overwhelmed on weekends in particular.
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My point was alcohol is awful, and yet they still sell it. It has a terrible effect on health and yet it's everywhere. It destroys lives no doubt, I have experience within my own family of this.

I'd be interested in the stats of users vs. problem cases.

The government has taken one case point, eg: the potential for psychosis and used that as a reason to try and upregulate to class A. I wonder what class alcohol would be if it were something new.

There will always be people who can't self regulate, people who do things to excess, people who bring harm on themselves and others. It doesn't matter what the substance is, legal or illegal.

There are many more studies that show beneficial effects of cannabis, we even have a system in our body to use and receive it. The body treats alcohol like a poison in contrast.

Maybe you missed the point I was making or maybe I didn't make it well enough. I had to rush out and typed it hurriedly.
 
It’ll make no difference. Coke is class A and really doesn’t deter anyone from either using it or selling it. Further incriminating it’s use will just make the younger generation want to try it more.

Conservatives won’t be in power long enough to implement it thank god.
 
a1ex2001 said:
Yet another good reason why police and crime commissioners should be abolished. Such a pointless waste of money to politicise policing and add a
Layer of unnecessary nonsense.

The only people benefitting are the police and crime commissioners and there staff drawing juicy salaries for contributing nothing to society.
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The police and crime commissioners where I live appear to just be a retirement benefit for former MPs.

I see zero value in them.
 
potatolord said:
The police and crime commissioners where I live appear to just be a retirement benefit for former MPs.

I see zero value in them.
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I always enjoy paying more every year for my police and commissioner and seeing more crime, less police and the odd photo of the commissioner turning up at 9am on a week day to talk to local residents in the local hall.

Totally pointless imo and a lot of those on the job think so as well.
 
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aVdub said:
I always enjoy paying more every year for my police and commissioner and seeing more crime, less police and the odd photo of the commissioner turning up at 9am on a week day to talk to local residents in the local hall.

Totally pointless imo and a lot of those on the job think so as well.
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I suspect even the police and crime commissioners know it’s a nonsense role but it is incredibly well paid for a job with no actual responsibilities!
 
Doobedoo said:
It’ll make no difference. Coke is class A and really doesn’t deter anyone from either using it or selling it. Further incriminating it’s use will just make the younger generation want to try it more.
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Yes I don't see what they think would be achieved with making it class A, it's not like they have any control over the cocaine trade, it's absolutely rife everywhere, every pub and bar, in the sticks even more so than in cities.

We'll end up being one of the last places to legalise and tax it, as long as we're ruled by these idealogical chumps.
 
mid_gen said:
Yes I don't see what they think would be achieved with making it class A, it's not like they have any control over the cocaine trade, it's absolutely rife everywhere, every pub and bar, in the sticks even more so than in cities.

We'll end up being one of the last places to legalise and tax it, as long as we're ruled by these idealogical chumps.
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Absolutely. I’ve been a well to do country pub before and sat outside having a smoke, I then watched several gentlemen lining up on the window seal brazen as can be.

Sensible people understand criminalisation has done little other than to fund the black markets and the dangerous/dodgy people that inhabit it.
 
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This nonsense again. Prohibition doesn't work. Legalise and tax it then use the profits to benefit the country.

I'd happily pay a bit more if it meant going to a dispensary and getting it that way but as it stands I have to visit onion fields and only criminal organisations benefit.
 
Junglist said:
This nonsense again. Prohibition doesn't work. Legalise and tax it then use the profits to benefit the country.

I'd happily pay a bit more if it meant going to a dispensary and getting it that way but as it stands I have to visit onion fields and only criminal organisations benefit.
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You don't have to visit anywhere. It's a choice to.
 
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