Cannabis Culture

[poliphilo]

Gordon 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.

Comments

Re: Gnats & Camels

[msjann65.livejournal.com]

I know many people who believe tobacco should be criminalized while marijuana should be legalized.
Talk about two-faced! I have used both, and as I see it there are far worse drugs out there - cocaine, heroin, amphetamine.
Governments seem to be powerless when it comes to those drugs that tear the very fabric of society. To quote a "Friend" of mine: "They strain at gnat(s) and swallow camel(s)."

Re: Gnats & Camels

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't think any drug should be illegal. Some drugs should be controlled- which isn't quite the same thing.