Green councillor calls for cannabis cafes in Brighton

Cannabis can cause mental problems and respiratory problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_cannabis#Respiratory_problems

Short term use can also cause respiratory problems, due to the higher temperature at which cannabis burns, which can burn the cilia cells and has the same effect on the lungs as cigarettes.

Well, a comparable danger as cigarettes would suggest a similar treatment as cigarettes Age limits, danger photos on packs, hidden from view wouldn't be too hard to require.

Well then, considering the danger of cigarettes, they should be illegal also. The only reason they aren't is because of he income it provides the government.

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Anyone who opposes legalisation of cannabis but supports alcohol remaining legal is a hypocrite.

I don't need scientific studies to tell me it has no risks.

Couldn't cannabis provide income if legalised?

Anything legalised can provide income, but you shouldn't allow the consumption of a dangerous and harmful chemical for recreation which has been proven to damage health. If you do this only because you become rich then in my opinion you lack morals and ethics. The same goes for tobacco and alcohol.

Anything legalised can provide income... tobacco and alcohol.

So ****ing what. Since when was it the governments concern to go round banning everything that an individual could choose to use and might have a harmful effect on them. So we happen to be on a ridiculous, brainwashing health trip at the moment. The world wasn't always this way.

If I like it, and I want to smoke it, and if my smoking it isn't harming anyone non-consenting, then anyone that tries to stop me needs to have a good long think about their motivation.

harmful = illegal

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

The website said marijuana had three times as much tar as a normal fag.

Sensible people realise it is harmful and therefore don't touch the stuff. It should remain illegal.

http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/a/effects.-Lya.htm

since the majority of the population are a bunch of brain dead idiots who, if drugs werent illegal, would have managed to top them selves years ago. although that being said i think i justified the legalisation of all harmfull drugs.

they're here to serve us, not to enforce a long list of petty acts and passtimes that are banned. You may gamble your money away but you may not take psilocybin mushrooms. You may sit and eat junk food all day until you are unable to move properly but you may not take amphetamines. It's not their ****ing business. You've probably noticed that the human race is doing quite well.

And that's not to mention that a lot of these activitites, often harmful ones, have social, spiritual, medicinal etc etc benefits to them.

In Spain, when the Correfoc is on, men dress as dragons and chase kids through the streets, firing rockets from the mouth of the dragon. The kids pile on scarves and balaclavas and gloves etc and they run for their lives. I remember my little cousins getting home and twhen they peeled off the scarves they were crying tears of fear and joy - they were delirious.

That's ****ing living mate, and that's what this, and the last government are on some weird crusade to stop.

please give me one valid reason why people should be allowed to smoke crack, shoot heroin etc?.....

RoflroflroflCOPTER!

The lack of any chemicals in cannabis disagrees with you.

I could go on and on about how a lot of you are idiots, but frankly I don't have the energy to do so tonight.

Because it's their body. It's basically the only thing we own and can choose to do as we please with. I'm not having sex with your children, i'm sticking some ground up and treated plant up my nose. Who on Earth do you think you are to tell me what's good for me?

and if it only affected them no one would care so much but it doesnt, the drugs trade has led to the death of countless people destroyed families and countries and with regards to its affects here it costs us the British tax payer money to sort out these idiots, why should my hard earned pounds go to treating or rehabilitating these people..? plus the crime associated with these drugs, how do you think the vast majority of addicts afford their drugs? it isnt by hard work.

and with regards to who am i to tell you? someone who's actually read what a doctors opinion on the subject is, somehow ci think theyre a bit more informed on this matter than you could ever be.