The cannabis conspiracy

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Hi,
I work in a homeless supported accommodation and have noticed the use of cannabis is becoming unmanageable. My colleagues from different projects are also finding this.
The drug is very different, stronger and far more harmful than it was in the 60's. It is highly addictive and a major obstacle in my clients recovery.
However, I am beginning to think that perhaps this huge problem is convenient for the government.
Large proportions of the unemployed population addicted to a majorly demotivating substance which leaves them unable to look to closely at their political situation?
Just a thought

am sure there is a certain degree of complacency...

The drug is very different, stronger and far more harmful than it was in the 60's. It is highly addictive and a major obstacle in my clients recovery.

It really isn't, you know.

Honestly it really is that bad.

where do you get these extra stong drugs then?

are you sure it's not cut with something more harmful?

I know where you're coming from about how widespread it has become and its effects OP, but I'm not sure about the convenience for the government aspect as it's surely not good to have so many people on benefits long term?
Plus, I work in mental health and we have seen a lot of people admitted to PICUs and in long term care placements as a result of drug use, including cannabis and believe you me, at a cost of £600 a day, minimum for each inpatient as well as the ESA etc. It really isn't a sensible option for the government!

Conspiracy? Next you'll be telling me that it's 'in the government's interest' to keep them all pissed as well.

It's a far more sensible option than having a lot of disaffected people marching on government demanding jobs, better pay and the abolition of the deep rooted class structures and inequalities that exist in western societies.

Then why are the drug and alcohol laws so misleading? Just a thought?

Cannabis is stronger now generally than it was in the 90s, never mind the 60s. Skunk is pretty much all you can get now (so I hear, anyway ), and it is much, much stronger than the resin cannabis that used to be around in my early 90s youth.

I moved house 3 years ago into a completely different area than I was brought up in. I was absolutely shocked at the drug use in just the street I live in. Practically all my neighbours are prolific users of cannabis. On a summer day you can smell it in the air, wafting over the fences. It's a joke. My neighbour deals it. I've had people knocking on my door at 1/2/3 in the morning looking for him. I've seen him passing it to neighbours out on the street. The police have been informed, but aren't really interested.

The laws are misleading because of history. Drugs were legal up until the 60's ??? they were however expensive and not readily available to the lower social orders. When drugs became more available and cheaper then laws were instituted. I don't think the elites have quite got over themselves and decided if it's "fair" or whether it is simply that progressive thinking in the past has been to try and reduce harm, this is a pervasive idea which catches on across all classes.

I'm not in favour of dumbing people down but neither am I in favour of criminalising people that take drugs. It seems to me that the great mass of dumbed down electorate think it's entirely acceptable for MPs to have cheap alcohol subsidised by the tax payer whilst they sit around cooking up schemes to deny people who are addicted to heroin from claiming benefits.

MPs do not have "cheap alcohol, subsidised by the tax payer".

ah but they do in the house of commons bars.

Indeed they do. And there are no plans to change that.