Marijuana legalisation in the UK: Yes or No?

What a ridiculous assumption

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I was wondering what all you guys thought of the devil's lettuce being legal in the UK. I understand we're probably a long way away from that happening but I'm just curious of people's opinions of it.

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Sources (preferrably scientific journals/articles) showing it has negative effects on developing brains.

And regardless of it's effects on developing organs. What effects do you think that legal drugs such as alcohol or tobacco have on developing organs? Same old same old with prohibitionists. You lot always point to this or that while there are much more harmful drugs that are prefectly legal.

Well nobody I know who smoke it glorify it for being illegal and cool. They do it to get high.

As for starting out, it was done to see what getting high felt like.

If it was made legal, young people would still start smoking it, but it would be in the same way as how young people start smoking cigarettes. To feel cool and/or see what it is like. So if anything people glorifying it to feel cool would probably increase if anything.

There is way too much of a stoner culture on social media for young people not to be intrigued to try it if it was legal. The stoner laid back culture is often what young people are drawn to initially, not the legal status of it.

But the main point is that people who tend to smoke it thinking it is cool, aren't generally very mature. Hence they tend to be under 18, making it still illegal for them to smoke it. So by legalising it under the basis that people won't try it because it is legal, therefore not cool make no sense as it is still illegal for stupid little kids who think it is cool, in fact there will be even more stupid little children **** bois trying it because it was made legal and they just pick the **** boi with a furry mustache to go buy some.

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I'm against it on the basis that it's not good for you (the cancer stuff only works in concentrated doses - i.e. not smoking) and since it's already banned, making it legal would only encourage it's use.

With that being said, i don't think somebody should go to prison for smoking it and therefore with all drugs i would make their use subject to a fixed penalty notice while maintaining more severe fines for supply.

Aren't ciggs more harmful?

Can you explain the things that make it bad for you?

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Yeah, a lot more harmful, they cause cancer, weed had been proven to slow it and help shrink it

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I think you make a valid point here and there is definitely some weight to the argument that if it was legal more people may be more inclined to try it. however if it was regulated properly, it would be harder for kids to obtain it in the first place; at present it is far to easy for children to get hold of weed, I know this from personal experience. And this stoner culture on social media that you speak of is only being perpetuated by the fact that weed is still illegal. Young people have always tried in some way or another to 'rebel against the system', its nothing new.

The only way to make weed less appealing to young people is to 'decriminalise' it. Look at Amsterdam, I was born and raised in London and moved to Amsterdam when I was 18 and from experience I can tell you that the greatest success that Amsterdam has is that they've managed to make drugs 'boring'. Think about a drug deal in London as appose to one in Amsterdam, in London you may be meeting you dealer in a rough neighbourhood, the handshake thing where you try to pass over the money while taking the baggie from them at the same time trying to avoid suspicion, then having to carry this bag of 'illegal' narcotics back to your home without getting stopped by the police, knowing that if you do, you could very well end up in a jail cell. Just that alone is one of the most exciting, adrenaline fuelled experiences of that whole subculture. Whereas in Amsterdam you go to the counter, choose what you want and pay for it just as you would anything else: easy, simple and most importantly 'boring'.

Well i know it's probably less harmful than tobacco (and probably less addictive) however there are simply no benefits that i'm aware of to it (from smoking at least) and so i don't really see a reason to support legalisation.

Why is legalisation of drugs a big thing. If someone was going to smoke weed, it doesnt matter if its legal or not and vice versa. Illegalisation just makes it harder to source, it doesnt actually deter smoking it as its a habit forming drug and thus users generally dont give 2 fingers about the consequences

The chemical in Cannabis is what slows and shrinks it and you require concentrated doses. You can't actually smoke it and hold back cancer, you'd be dead of Oxygen deprivation before you got anywhere near the level of concentration needed.