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The one reason and very big reason for Canabis being illiegal in the UK is that if it were to be legalised the goverment could not make enough money off of it. People would be growing it in their own homes, and they can charge all the public a few hundred quid each for a canabis licence or something like that. They controll the legality based on wether or not they can tax it!!

tpelling wrote:The one reason and very big reason for Canabis being illiegal in the UK is that if it were to be legalised the goverment could not make enough money off of it. People would be growing it in their own homes, and they can charge all the public a few hundred quid each for a canabis licence or something like that. They controll the legality based on wether or not they can tax it!!

Exactly, which destroys Joseph Ponan's argument (the author of the governments letter), that 'what the government must do and does do is to balance the right of individuals on one hand, and the greater public health and welfare consideration on the other.'

What a load of hypocritical bollocks. What the government is actually doing is taxing potentially harmful products with as much duty as they can get away with, whilst prosecuting those who use a potentially far less harmful product i.e. cannabis.

Consider all the millions if not billions spent on policing the current law. You call the police in the UK and say kids are scratching your car or whatever and your be lucky to get a visit from them to help you with an insurance claim. Take that woman some months back who had a handicapped daughter. Both of them were being bullied an teased by kids on the estate where she lived. Over the years she called the police on several occasions, but they did not stop her suffering. In the end, the poor woman could take the torment no more, and drove into the countryside with her handicapped daughter and gassed themselves to death in the car.

Yet if on the same estate the police knew about someone growing a few cannabis plants, they would be round there like a shot , in great numbers, and creating the havoc we have all seen watching a police cannabis drug raid. What a criminal waste of resources - pun intended. It honestly makes me weep.

Very interesting article in todays Observer,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ap ... drug-gangs


here is just a quote from it,

At the height of the 2008 banking crisis, Antonio Maria Costa, then head of the United Nations office on drugs and crime, said he had evidence to suggest the proceeds from drugs and crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to banks on the brink of collapse. "Inter-bank loans were funded by money that originated from the drugs trade," he said. "There were signs that some banks were rescued that way."

A Leprechaun wrote:Very interesting article in todays Observer,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ap ... drug-gangs


here is just a quote from it,

At the height of the 2008 banking crisis, Antonio Maria Costa, then head of the United Nations office on drugs and crime, said he had evidence to suggest the proceeds from drugs and crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to banks on the brink of collapse. "Inter-bank loans were funded by money that originated from the drugs trade," he said. "There were signs that some banks were rescued that way."

Great read Leprechaun, thanks for posting. I would like to think that it was cannabis smokers who saved the world. However, the drug gangs are involved in a lot more than herbal distribution.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15770842

Shame she has little influence but every little bit helps eh.

Interesting report there ^^

But we know what happens in the UK...we will pay for the research to be carried out, then they will dismiss it when they don't get the answers they want

Any one remember Professor Nutt??

and isn't it strange how GWK pharmceuticals announces this week profits of 4.4 million pounds sterling this year so far for sativex.....how many plants?