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Would you report - yes or no?

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fluffyraggies · 06/09/2013 11:13

Quick poll:

A person you know, not family, is growing, using and selling weed (in high enough quantities to turn a tidy profit) year round.

Would you report them to the police?

OP posts:
ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 06/09/2013 12:24

Yes if you could do so safely. I have previously reported a dealer.

I had a friend whose life was wrecked in her 20's by cannabis induced pyschosis (diagnosed when she was sectioned).

SilverOldie · 06/09/2013 12:25

If grown for their own use - no. If grown to sell - yes.

SaucyJack · 06/09/2013 12:26

The whole "gateway drug" thing the the strongest argument for legalization, shirley?

If it was legal, and you could pick it up at the tobacco counter with your pasta salad and bottled water you wouldn't need to worry about coming into contact with undesirables or being held down and injected with smack or whatever else it is you think happens when people pop round to pick up an 8th.

Snoopingforsoup · 06/09/2013 12:26

Interesting though, kid at the end of our street has been knocking out weed for a while.

The house has been raided twice in the last few months and he has just sat his GCSE's months after being thrown out of school.

I'll watch his future hopeful that this hasn't ruined his life, silly little sod. The blokes handing it over to him and his mates around the corner don't look the sort you'd want your teen hanging out with either!

To those thinking weed is pretty harmless; you're wrong!

And no, I didn't report him because I didn't have to. Everyone else in the community did.

His poor parents!

AmberLeaf · 06/09/2013 12:27

Glue? sorry I'm trying not to laugh. is it 1979?

Poppers? what those totally legal things that you can buy anywhere?

If people are selling weed outside your school gate, then they are selling it, not giving it away for free.

I live in SE London and I don't know of any weed dealers that give freebies to kids. Its a business not a charity project.

I have two teenage boys who have managed to live and go to school round here and have never been offered drugs of any kind for free or to buy.

Staggeringly, my 13 yr old son has had a couple of people ask him if he can get weed for them, probably because he is black and...of course that means hes a drug dealer, but that's another thread.

LimitedEditionLady · 06/09/2013 12:27

Noone can honestly say that they would,unless you actually came in that position.Weed causes mental health problems etc yes,but a person chooses to smoke it or eat it noone makes them.Its not addictive thats proven so for me i would leave well alone.Alcohol causes worse problems IMO.There will always be drug dealers,you can say youre getting rid of one to stop your kids coming into contact with drugs but please dont be naive and think there are not so many opportunities in ther lifetime that theyre going to be in contact with the situation.Its not just some dodgy man at the schoolgate ( ?) You probably see people everyday who have drug connections and you wouldnt have a clue.

Madamecastafiore · 06/09/2013 12:29

Yes.

Growing for the purpose of selling is illegal.

I also see the poor fuckers suffering from drug induced psychosis and think the nonchalance around cannabis is stupid.

burberryqueen · 06/09/2013 12:30

have to agree with AmberLeaf about the 'glue and poppers' - glue is not what teenagers are into, hasnt been for a long time.
Amberleaf I almost wonder if I know you sometimes.....Grin

AmberLeaf · 06/09/2013 12:31

Amberleaf...... dont be so naive, children are often given freebies and then "loaned" all sorts of drugs, not always to get them hooked but often tomrecruit them as runners etc

I am far from naive.

lougle · 06/09/2013 12:31

Yes.

catgirl1976 · 06/09/2013 12:31

No

LimitedEditionLady · 06/09/2013 12:33

I think amber leaf sounds the least naive

AmberLeaf · 06/09/2013 12:33

Maybe you do burberryqueen Grin

I had to explain to my then 15 yr old why he could go to the shop to buy some superglue when he was trying to fix something, he had no clue about that sort of solvent abuse.

Floggingmolly · 06/09/2013 12:33

Yes.

HandMini · 06/09/2013 12:33

Please report. Here are my reasons:

We all have a duty to society to live by the rules. Whether or not YOU think cannabis should be legalised, our government currently doesn't.

Cannabis has terrible mental health effects.

Cannabis is a gateway drug.

I am sure none of the tidy profit you reference is being declared for tax purposes. Cheats and swindlers always piss me off.

TheToysAreALIVEITellThee · 06/09/2013 12:34

No.

If it was shit though with crappy weights then Yes, out of spite Grin

yellowballoons · 06/09/2013 12:34

Yes.

theoriginalandbestrookie · 06/09/2013 12:34

No.
Hard drugs, yes, without a doubt, cannabis, no.

burberryqueen · 06/09/2013 12:37

Amberleaf you used to smoke but gave up right?
and do your boys attend a school with a bit of history?

Snoopingforsoup · 06/09/2013 12:38

There's a difference between someone over the age of 18 choosing to smoke cannabis for recreation and a 13 year old getting in with the wrong crowd and getting involved in the murky world of drug dealing before their life has really started.

Alcohol has an age limit and is controlled to a degree. Cannabis is often smoked with tobacco and is more dangerous to an under-developed brain.

So OP, as you can't say who they're selling it to; I would actually really consider reporting it.

LimitedEditionLady · 06/09/2013 12:41

Yeah alcohol has an age limit,but does that mean that underage drinking isnt occurring?

SouthernComforts · 06/09/2013 12:42

Lmao at glue and poopers.

More likely ketamine and cocaine.

No, I wouldn't report. Just because doing so round here would probably get me stabbed or my house torched.

BuskersCat · 06/09/2013 12:43

Cannabis is NOT a gateway drug. People can just smoke weed you know, and never ever want to, or have the inclination to do other things. That's like saying if you enjoy ginger beer you are going to be swigging bottles of vodka.

AmberLeaf · 06/09/2013 12:45

Amberleaf you used to smoke but gave up right?

Yes, but I will state cigarettes seeing as we are on this thread I feel the need to clarify!

and do your boys attend a school with a bit of history?

Not that I can think of?

burberryqueen · 06/09/2013 12:45

yes mcat and ketamine - glue is soooo seventies yah?