Legalization of Marijuana

[DanaC]

Damn right it should be legal. What really, really pisses me off, is that bloody America, put pressure onto my bloody country and loads of others, to ensure that pot, and indeed all drugs, would be considered beyond the pale.

There is no reason, whatsoever, for pot to be illegal. End of story. I keep hearing this bullshit from the anti-pot brigade about how it causes psychosis in some vulnerable youngsters (majijuana makes you mad, remember?) and how the pot now is soooo much stronger than it once was, and these days it really is a dangerous drug. No. It's. Not.

Like any substance which affects one's state of mind, it has to be treated with a degree of respect. If you sit in your house and smoke twenty five joints a day of prime skunk, chances are you won't be mentally healthful as if you didn't. Okay. That's fine, advise people not to do that and then stay the fuck out of their lives!

Right now, the whole thing just fuels a worldwide smuggling and guns operation that keeps millions in misery and danger. Legalise all drugs. Operate responsible control over them, as a government. We control alcohol manufacture to avoid people going blind from moonshine...we could control heroin, or cocaine, to minimise the dangers of those drugs too.

Back before your lot persuaded my lot to slam dunk the whole drugs thing, there were people in this country happily combining mild drug addictions with ordinary life. Having a drug habit didn't mean you had to steal stereos, because the drugs were simple to get. The quality of the drugs was such that rarely did people end up with a bad dose. Those people who indulged generally held down jobs, and didn't end up losing their homes and self respect with quite the same ferocity that todays addicts do.

Legalise al drugs. Nobody should be able to say to any of us...it is illegal for you to swallow/inhale/inject that substance into your body.