Cannabis Culture
Apr. 4th, 2008 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloGordon Brown wants to regrade cannabis from a Class "C" to a Class "B" drug. In response members of his cabinet have been falling over themselves to confess their own past drug use. I don't know if they're doing this to pre-empt future revelations or in an attempt to head him off at the pass, but the effect is to highlight just how mainstream cannabis now is .
If you're under seventy (and not Gordon Brown) you'll have been around the stuff and probably used it. I don't smoke tobacco, so I don't smoke grass- simple as that- but I did try it once (it made me cough) and I've been in houses where the fug hung so heavy I was getting the full benefit. By the way, does that make me an accessory?
The criminalisation of cannabis criminalises us all. I think it's daft.
Upping the penalties for cannabis use isn't going to squash the cannabis culture. We should decriminalise it for the same reason we haven't criminalised alcohol- a far more dangerous drug- because it's entrenched, it's here to stay- and a law that isn't going to work- that can't be properly enforced, that goes against the grain of what's socially accepted- is unjust and brings all law into disrepute.
If you're under seventy (and not Gordon Brown) you'll have been around the stuff and probably used it. I don't smoke tobacco, so I don't smoke grass- simple as that- but I did try it once (it made me cough) and I've been in houses where the fug hung so heavy I was getting the full benefit. By the way, does that make me an accessory?
The criminalisation of cannabis criminalises us all. I think it's daft.
Upping the penalties for cannabis use isn't going to squash the cannabis culture. We should decriminalise it for the same reason we haven't criminalised alcohol- a far more dangerous drug- because it's entrenched, it's here to stay- and a law that isn't going to work- that can't be properly enforced, that goes against the grain of what's socially accepted- is unjust and brings all law into disrepute.
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Date: 2008-04-04 12:33 pm (UTC)YES. OMG I wish Certain People would GRASP this already. I REALLY don't think it's that hard to understand. And, hello, we HAD Prohibition in this country. WHY do people not get WHY it didn't work?
(Oops. Sorry for the rant. Just...kind of...you know... OMGthestupiditburns. Sometimes it gets to me.)
(And, nope, never used it, myself, and no desire to, either.)
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Date: 2008-04-04 01:38 pm (UTC)Our leaders love declaring wars on things they can't possibly beat. Is it because they're stupid or because a state of perpetual war suits them and their profiteering buddies?
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Date: 2008-04-04 01:40 pm (UTC)*sigh* Now there's a rhetorical question if ever I heard one...