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Now 5 states in the US have totally legalised cannabis. There's also another 10 or so that have decriminalised it and sell it on a medical basis, another 10 states allow the sale for medical use only and an additional hand full of states have decriminalised weed.

 

Slowly but surely America is realising that cannabis use is not the monster it's been made out to be in the past.

 

Surely the UK will follow suit in some way soon? Do you think we'll go down the decriminalisation route, medical route, or all out legalisation?

 

Also, if cannabis was legalised in the UK, do you think it will lead to an all out referendum on the drug laws?

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Politically very difficult in this country. The blind or stupid will continue to believe the nonsense spouted by the tabloids.

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When America sneezes the UK gets a cold. We will follow their lead eventually.

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Dream on, it'll never happen. It has been a failure in Portugal where the streets are infested with down and out addicts, when you legalise class C drugs you reduce the criminality of Class A and B, society and infrastructure then collapses.

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Dream on, it'll never happen. It has been a failure in Portugal where the streets are infested with down and out addicts, when you legalise class C drugs you reduce the criminality of Class A and B, society and infrastructure then collapses.

 

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With the muppets that run this country and the idiots that keep voting for them....probably never :/

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Somewhere between 2 and 5 years I reckon.

People like Mecky will never change their opinion, but they are a minority.

 

---------- Post added 14-11-2014 at 09:06 ----------

 

Dream on, it'll never happen. It has been a failure in Portugal where the streets are infested with down and out addicts, when you legalise class C drugs you reduce the criminality of Class A and B, society and infrastructure then collapses.

 

As far as I understand that's a complete lie. Portugal has seen a fall in the number of users, a fall in crime and a fall in the number of deaths from drug.

By most measures it's a success, although they've not gone far enough IMO.

 

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-decriminalization-in-portugal-12-years-later-a-891060-2.html

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Probably as soon as they can figure out how to make this equation work:

 

Tax Revenue + Money for Big Business >> Cost of administration

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Dream on, it'll never happen. It has been a failure in Portugal where the streets are infested with down and out addicts, when you legalise class C drugs you reduce the criminality of Class A and B, society and infrastructure then collapses.

 

Weird, because several studies show it made no or only a positive difference in Portugal. This article refers to one.

 

In fact, in countries where cannabis use is not criminalised and has not been for a significant time (Portugal and the Netherlands) cannabis users per capita are lower than they are here, 3.3 & 5.4 versus 6.6 respectively.

 

In countries where appropriate therapy and care is offered to hard drug users the ratio of HIV transmission amongst that population is significantly lower than it is elsewhere.

 

There are massive benefits to decriminalising drugs, but people like you prefer to live under a rock and ignore the proof, instead talking of "collapse of society".

 

Benefits besides the factors mentioned:

 

controlled product, the state garners influence on what is sold. The state can actually target specific areas for control - driving under influence being one prime example. The benefit of it being controlled means that the state can levy taxes on it.

 

The ample benefits are massively outweighing the dim view held by antagonists. Time to legalise.

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Dream on, it'll never happen. It has been a failure in Portugal where the streets are infested with down and out addicts, when you legalise class C drugs you reduce the criminality of Class A and B, society and infrastructure then collapses.

 

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/blog/drug-decriminalisation-portugal-setting-record-straight

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Drug use in Portugal hasn't been legalised, so there is no evidence that legalisation works from that source anyway.

Now decriminalisation may have some merit.

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