Socially acceptable Christmas alcohol but weed is not ok?

It is not socially acceptable to get steaming drunk or stoned around kids.

But whether someone agrees with it or not, smoking weed makes you an illegal drug user. That isn’t morally neutral. It involves condoning an illegal trade built on violence, exploitation, and the suffering of men, women, and children.

The suffering and destroyed lives tied to that trade don’t disappear because someone thinks the drug should be socially acceptable, or legal, or thinks their supply is victim-free (it still condones/encourages the wider use of illegal drugs).

There will be children suffering this Christmas due to this illegal drug trade.

Hope you reflect on that while getting your high this Christmas (although I doubt it, drug users tend to be both deluded and too self absorbed in my experience).

Circa 70,000 people are prescribed cannabis in the UK.

It's been legal for medical use since 2018.

A lot of people wrongly think this only means an extract or spray. Actual cannabis flower is prescribed, along with other forms such as value cartridges and pastilles.

It's still illegal to smoke it but a dry herb vape is fine. The smell isn't always coming from someone using it illegally.

Educate yourselves.

Oh and lots of things stink. Incontinent people, people adverse to showering, stinky breath, babies arses, farmers fields, perfume, etc

I think if alcohol was discovered today, it would probably be more controlled. But it's been with us in one form or another for thousands of years so falls into an odd category where we do know it's a harmful product but we still happily consume it or give it as presents.

This is not (or should not) be true. 'Anyone' should not be able to get a prescription for anything, medicines should be prescribed purely on the basis of evidence base and need. Not profit.

@Dliplop Of course some houses have alcoholics or binge drinkers or people getting high, but a little puff of my vape (bathroom, open window and fan) isn’t getting me high.

But what's the point..? Drinking a glass of wine at the table with dinner gives me a totally different image to someone standing in the bathroom alone vaping out a window. It's anti-social.

Weed probably should be legal, but it isn't, so buying it funds organised crime and child exploitation.

And where is it socially acceptable to start drinking in the morning on Christmas? Not in my house, or any of my relatives or friends. Maybe a couple of my friends parents. It's hardly universal. Most of us will have wine with the dinner tomorrow, I won't but I'll have a whisky and coke after. I'd think that was more typical Christmas social norm?

Gosh! There's a big difference between a Dry Martini or a jug of Margaritas to someone coughing and spitting on a smelly old spliff...

Too many cases of machete wielding habitual weed smoking paranoid schizophrenics for my liking... although you could do an Alice B Toklas and create a cannabis infused Christmas pudding... That could be fun!

https://curaleafclinic.com/
Are you saying that companies like this one employ Vietnamese children?

Weed is very much linked to mental health problems

I buy real CA standard edibles, so no ethical issues.
No smell.
Makes food taste nicer. Helps me to doze off. Makes films extra funny.
I don’t see how that’s worse than someone having a bottle of wine tbh.

Do you want permission to smoke weed OP? So you can pat yourself on the back as it’s not alcohol.

At least you can enjoy your Christmas with your DCs unlike the Vietnamese kids working in grow houses so you can get your fix. But they don’t matter of course.

I'd agree, but it's not so simple. Once you're hooked, you're really hooked.

Are you OK hun? What message are you giving to your kids?? Stop trying to downgrade 'weed' - its not OK

How about don’t smoke cigarettes, don’t take drugs and do t drink to excess. Show some restraint ffs.

Weed is the first step to a living, or even dead dependency hell. Alcohol is just alcohol, all that's needed is a bit of common sense when enjoying it.

@Sunshineofyourlove (weed) ’will have no adverse effect on anyone’

Not the case, unless it’s legal where you live or you grew it yourself from seeds or a plant bought from somewhere it’s legal. Financing crime has adverse effects on lots of people.

Or any day come to that.

You mean this drugs trade?
https://curaleafclinic.com/
I don't think there are any gangs involved here.

The amount of people so uneducated about cannabis is actually hilarious 😂

We’ve never made a big deal of alcohol. It’s there if we want a glass with a meal but don’t often. Much like chocolate we’ve never treated it as a treat.

In terms of smoking, vaping and weed if you’re smoking it really should be outside if you have family around because of health reasons. If it’s your house and you all smoke do what you like

Personally I don’t think meat should be a celebrated element of a meal or day either partly because most of it is very bad for people aswell.

Regarding lingering smells in the house
meat, weed, smoking all stink the house out
alcohol doesn’t

Cannabis is legal, anyone can get a private prescription for medical cannabis, medical cannabis gets you high just like ordinary cannabis does.
As already pointed out one can use edible cannabis and there is no smell for people to complain about.

Oh God, the smell of weed is awful. I have never smoked it, or anything else for that matter. I wouldn’t even want anyone to smoke it outside because the smell sticks like shit to everything and people just bring it in on their clothes. So, for that reason alone, I’d rather everyone stuck to a thimble of sherry and a sniff of the Christmas cake (while I quaff all the wine and Bailey’s🤣)

Weed stinks. I smoked the odd one year’s ago but today’s weed is so strong you can smell it a mile away and it’s stomach churning.

I don’t think anyone should ever be high or drunk around children any day of the year!

I do not think anyone was murdered and no one forced into gangs for the drinks trade. Unlike the drugs trade.

I don't think anyone in their right mind would condone drunk driving. It's so morally wrong there are no words. I don't agree re alcohol in general though, I find it quite beneficial to my life truth be told. In moderation it's fine the problem is misuse. Same with fast food or any indulgence really. Think of all the people who are killed from speeding, significantly more than drunk drivers and we still permit people to do this, often eye rolling at people who claim to speed instead of ostracised them. It's a double standard.

I’m in Canada and generally people here would find it appalling the way alcohol is consumed through the Christmas period in the UK. BUT would have zero issue with someone having a glass of wine or low dose edible wrapping gifts or after dinner. Of course some houses have alcoholics or binge drinkers or people getting high, but a little puff of my vape (bathroom, open window and fan) isn’t getting me high.