If you buy cannabis you are an accessory to the modern-day slave trade that caused the death of the 39 in the shipping container

[Parsimon]

I hate the fact that so many people in this country blissfully ignore the human misery behind the drugs they consume, whether it’s working class kids being stabbed because of their involvement with the gangs that supply cocaine to middle-class dinner parties or the “just a spliff” crowd who are fuelling modern slavery from predominantly Vietnamese trafficked immigrants, often children.

If you grow your own and trace to source everything else then you’re only harming yourself, but I expect that the vast majority of drugs users don’t actually do that.

Excellent article in the Guardian today about the children having to work to support UK cannabis consumption.

amp.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/25/trafficked-enslaved-teenagers-tending-uk-cannabis-farms-vietnamese/

Ill support the op in her campaign to legalize drugs to end this misery

Good work op

What a load of sensationalist twaddle.

All the more reason to legalise it and every other 'drug'. People will not stop using them.

Legalization is the answer. I live in a state where marijuana is legal. No child labor, no trafficked workers, product quality is monitored, no black market, and a lot of tax revenue. It’s now cheaper and better quality here than it was all those years ago when it was illegal. It’s no more harmful than alcohol so I can’t see why it isn’t legal in more places.

have you ever eaten a piece of fruit op because I've got some bad news

Yes, I've seen almost just as many men working in nail bars as women TheCountessofFitzdotterel.

@Drabarni Where do you think these drugs come from and how do you think they get here? I ask genuinely, I'm aware that it sounds an inflammatory question but I honestly want to know your thoughts on this.

I’m not sure legalisation is the answer. I’ve been reading about the legalisation of cannabis in LA and how the black market trade is on the increase. Google the latest studies in 2019.

@wifesupremacist I have, wife. What's the connection between illegal drugs and fruit? Genuinely interested.

@noloh1 Isn't the objective with drugs (from the sellers pov) to get people hooked so that there is a steady income stream? So if drugs are legalised what stops people buying them and selling them on cheaper (once they have cut them) to people who don't want to/can't pay the legal price?

It wouldn't stop criminal activities (but might reduce them). That would be my thought.

The majority of cocaine into the U.K comes as freight, not stuffed up peoples arses.
All the lot of illegal drugs need to be legalized in my opinion. Anyone within 1/2 an hour or so can get hold of more or less any drug.

Legalising makes drug dealers ‘business owners’ and with that comes heavy tax in profits that they didn’t have to pay before. For every legit business owner selling marijuana legally, there are more growing, trafficking, dealing illegally to avoid paying tax and make more money.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/us/marijuana-california-legalization.amp.html

Just an article in the New York Times

I work in criminal justice and this is one of many reasons that I and a lot of my colleagues are pro legalisation.

Thank you OP. There's so much elective blindness regarding cannabis. And nail bars. I noticed in our local nail bar that now the people doing the nails are all young Asian men. That's new. Can't tell if it is dodgy.

yes OP, it's the same for all drugs, including cocaine

Always has been

Look at Mexico, ravaged by drug wars :(

You are right. The nail bars are money laundering fronts for the drugs. There is no such thing as ‘just a spliff’ or ‘just a line of coke’. I know someone who fostered then adopted a trafficked Vietnamese kid. He was very lucky unlike some of his countrymen. The cost is far higher than the cash being paid to the dealer. People are losing their kids whether they are being stabbed or enslaved over other people’s dinner parties.

People are not going to stop doing drugs so they need to be legalised and regulated. The human cost is too high.

Drugs trade, nail parlours and hand car washes, all exploiting people who are trafficked, enslaved or come from very deprived backgrounds. We all need to be aware of this.

YANBU

Nail bars & Cannabis farms.

There is a nail bar in my small local town, all staffed by Asians (men & women). They seem happy (one at least I know has a son at a local school) but how can you really know?

I won't be going there again. (Don't smoke cannabis)

We should legalise cannabis so it can stop the drug trade

Time to legalise and stop the illegal trading...drugs such as cannabis, cocaine and so on should be treated the same way that we treat alcohol.

Actually I get it from a relative who grows his own, no slavery involved.

@Codywolf - I agree. I don't smoke cannabis - hate the stuff and think its negative effects are massively underplayed. But it makes complete sense to decriminalise and regulate it so people can get hold of it for medical purposes, criminals no longer have control of it, and so its various strengths and side effects can be openly described, just as they are on cigarette packets and to a lesser extent, on booze, giving recreational users more control over what they choose to buy.

The two nail bars I have been going to for at least 10 years have people that work in them go back home Vietnam at least once a year . And they also regularly go on holiday in Europe
Both men and women work in them and it’s generally been the same people for years so no fluctuating staff moving around in different areas
One of the girls actually lived in my SIL house that she rented a few years ago with a few other people
Surely if they were here illegal they wouldn’t be going back home on holiday every year
I’m not saying that there aren’t illegal nail bars but I don’t think the ones that I have been using are

Legalise cannabis would be the obvious option.