Smoking weed - what’s your take on it...

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I don’t know much about it but on balance think it should probably be decriminalised. However, it is addictive and it obviously can have a negative impact on people’s lives and mental health. It does seem very prevalent around my part of London - I feel like I can smell it in the street all the time when I am out and about.

Our neighbours who rarely leave the house some smelly weed several times a week🙄

Bloody annoying if i want my windows open

Popped into a local hydro store this afternoon. One customer came with their family - partner and two delightful kids about 8 and 10 which made me think of this thread. Not all cannabis is bought on the street, and not all cannabis users are as people would like to think.

I believe Peter Hitchens in the DM, personally.

The government won't deal with the problem, because most of them are complicit.

Drugs are an abomination. Drug users should be punished heavily. Take away the users, and there's no drug business.

Drugs are an abomination. Drug users should be punished heavily. Take away the users, and there's no drug business.

As recent news shows, that's a bit difficult. Do that and you'd end up with no one left to do the locking up.

Most of the problem with the drugs situation in the UK - and most of the US-subservient world - is that it's been hijacked by the media as a money-spinning guaranteed copy-seller. With the relatively low quality thinking you'd expect. Starting with the fiction that somehow a man made construct of legality can somehow magically make science bend to our will.

Look, here's my magic wand of law - see how it makes cannabis dangerous, but alcohol and tobacco harmless.

Oops

Criminals and crime are merely what the government of the day say they are. No more. No less. They're not holy writ. I've developed a deep distrust of people who cite abstract notions to coerce behaviour from others, rather than their own conscience. A few years ago homosexuality was illegal. So why is it legal now ? Especially when some people at the time said - like "drug users" - they'd lock all the homosexuals up ?

Mankind has spent a hell of a lot longer using substances to alter perception - like alcohol - than it has reading the Daily Mail. Even if Peter Hitchens had taken personal delivery of the ten commandments on behalf of the Daily Mail after the slaves fled Egypt, and managed to pretend that it was God himself that banned drugs (of course God, in His Infinite Wisdom do no such thing. In fact, as Genesis 1:29 reminds us: God gave us all plants ) then humans would still have spent longer using psychoactive substances than .... well actually humans have never stopped using psychoactive substances.

I cant stand the smell of it, makes me feel ill. I dont understand how anyone would want to smell like mouldy old carpet being burnt on a bonfire!

I cant stand the smell of it, makes me feel ill. I dont understand how anyone would want to smell like mouldy old carpet being burnt on a bonfire!

People have said the same about Indian cooking ....

^^ not me...i like indian food

The stale sweaty alcohol smell of drinkers is worse imo

Don’t like smoking - of any sort. So unfair to those around you to smoke anything that could have any sort of effect on another person

Seems cannabis usage predates Christianity

advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw1391

Wooden burners unearthed from ancient Chinese tombs dating back 2,500 years have revealed the earliest evidence of humans smoking cannabis yet.

THC residue, the main psychoactive constituent in cannabis, was found on incense burners buried at the Jirzankal Cemetery in the Eastern Pamirs, a mountainous region in Central Asia. It was discovered by eggheads from Germany's Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

The team took ten wooden fragments and four burnt stones from burners recovered from the burial site, and analyzed them using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The test revealed surprising results: a clear signature of THC.

What’s more, the level of THC in the burners was higher than what’s typically found in wild cannabis plants, suggesting folks back then knew which particular variants of cannabis plants packed more of the feel-good chemical.

“Ancient people chose the cannabis with a high content of THC, so we think they knew the effects,” Yimin Yang, a researcher at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, told The Register on Wednesday.

Seems someone's not getting on board with the MN posse ...

www.heraldscotland.com/news/17709271.revealed-talks-underway-for-first-legal-cannabis-farm-in-scotland/

I'd take that article with a pinch of salt though. There are some simple factual errors (fancy that !). But, as we all well know, experts are out of fashion right now.

It stinks and makes people very dull to be around, in my experience.

I have no issue with people smoking weed whatsoever. I don't personally like it (or the smell), but I honestly couldn't care less if someone else did and I think it should be legalised (and all drugs decriminalised).

I feel the same about constant users of any drug who do it every single day as I do someone who drinks every day - they're an addict. But I feel the same about someone who has a few joints a week as I do someone who drinks a few glasses of wine a week, i.e. nothing.

Ah shit, zombie. Sorry.

It stinks and the people I can smell it on look like they should be on Jeremy kyle.

And the ones I know who smoke it all have mental health issues. Always minimum of anxiety and low mood.