Cannabis Gets B Grade
Cannabis is to be “upgraded” to a class B drug again, despite it being an utterly pointless gesture - especially since the police are already saying it will be “difficult to enforce” the stricter laws. After all, if they don’t pay attention now, I doubt they’ll bother when it suddenly overnight moves from a C to B grade substance. After all, all it brings is the possibility of an extra three years in prison - if they get caught and the police and CPS bother to waste our money prosecuting them, that is.
This advice even goes against that of the government’s own drug experts. What was that about “listening” again…?
Jacqui Smith says she is doing it because of the so-called “clear and serious risk to mental health”. Yet what about the very clear physical health risks of other legal drugs - such as alcohol, cigarettes, medicines… Are they to become illegal now as well?! No. Because that would be even more stupid than this announcement.
People make their own choices in life. if they want to smoke cannabis, let them. The papers are full of sob stories saying “MY CHILD DIED BECAUSE OF CANNABIS!” But that is no reason to change a law. They could just as easily be filled of equivalent stories on alcohol and cigarettes, but that is no reason to make them illegal substances.
In the end, it is their choice. If you educate people properly, then they will generally steer clear of this sort of drug, or at least be making a well-informed decision of their own. That is the only way to reduce the consumption of harmful drugs [and harmful excessive consumption of legal ones]: education. But then again, with the way that this government has managed to fail educating our children with the very basics, I doubt they could achieve this properly, anyway.
It also massively hypocritical of this Cabinet to attack drug use, considering their own histories…
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