What is the potential impact of decriminalising some cannabis possession?
What is the potential impact of decriminalising some cannabis possession?
London mayor Sadiq Khan has backed calls for the possession of small quantities of natural cannabis to be decriminalised.
Sir Sadiq said a new report, published by the independent London Drugs Commission (LDC) today, provides “a compelling, evidence-based case” for the government to consider the move.
Sky News spoke to Lord Flaconer KC, Chair, London Drugs Commission on decriminalising the possession of cannabis.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/sadiq-khan-says-some-cannabis-possession-should-be-decriminalised-13375719
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Medical cannabis is legal so just legalise it.
🤞 🤞
Used it all my life, the only relief from back pain I get. Produce it properly, tax it and have licensed premises and stop the black market. I don’t want to buy BMWs I would rather my money be used on schools or hospitals not criminals.
States rights=Criminalization of the citizens by a very small lunatic fringe minority of irrational prohibitionists whom have self righteously appointed themselves as self deputized morality police over everyone else.
every 1 smokes legal/illegal in any country wtf u even talk about bots
So because the 10% minority may have some adverse effects, the other 90% of us have to suck it up 😂 typical uk government, majority ruled by the minority 🙄
What about the ppl who already have a charge ? They can’t go to the US or get a job still 😂
It’s a complete waste of resources and a ridiculously obsurd law to say man shouldnt consume cannabis. I smoke fattys and still pay my taxes, I’m not racist either i dont compare colour to cannabis consumption. The Government need to seriously consider a relaxation in the laws, its becoming abit of a Punch and Judy.
The only "right" states rights provide is the right of a very small minority to criminalize anything they don’t morally approve of in their individual home states. It needs to end now! It’s like having 50 different countries with different laws instead of a "United" States.
Fair play to him for not denying that if Alcohol were invented today it would be illegal.
Peter Tosh said Legalise it!
Times are changing, the arguments against legalisation have got to a point where they are laughable. Decriminalisations good but will only boost black market sales, legalisation is the only route where there are benefits for all sides of the debate more tax money for public services, safer alternative to alcohol less binge drinking/anti social behaviour, regulated so it is grown/cured more safely i could go on and on…
Just legalise it for god dame sake.
Legalise it
Would be nice.
The "War on Cannabis" has been a complete and utter failure. It is the largest component of the broader yet equally unsuccessful "War on Drugs" that has cost our country over two trillion dollars. Instead of The United States wasting Billions upon Billions more of our yearly tax dollars fighting a never ending "War on Cannabis", lets generate Billions of dollars, and improve the deficit instead. Especially now, due to Covid-19. It’s a no brainer. The Prohibition of Cannabis has also ruined the lives of many of our loved ones. In numbers greater than any other nation, our loved ones are being sent to jail and are being given permanent criminal records. Especially, if they happen to be of the "wrong" skin color or they happen to be from the "wrong" neighborhood. Which ruin their chances of employment for the rest of their lives, and for what reason? Cannabis is much safer to consume than alcohol. Yet do we lock people up for choosing to drink? Let’s end this hypocrisy now! The government should never attempt to legislate morality by creating victim-less cannabis "crimes" because it simply does not work and costs the taxpayers a fortune. Cannabis Legalization Nationwide is an inevitable reality that’s approaching much sooner than prohibitionists think and there is nothing they can do to stop it! Legalize Nationwide Federally Now! Support Each and Every Cannabis Legalization Initiative!
It’s a plant ffs. Come on stop interfering with nature
Why can’t they ever realise that the 10% with psychiatric problems are SELF MEDICATING with cannabis, it is NOT the cause of mental illness in the vast majority of cases!
Biggest export of cannabis but still not legal 😡
We can’t just lock up everyone who does things prohibitionists don’t personally approve of.
Why does our government always watch what everyone else is doing and then make a decision?? We use to dominate the world now we wait and see what everyone else decides first . Huh ?
Why are these people so stupid.
Make it lefal,grow it professionally and the illegal dealing will dissappear.l along with the bad product.
These people are absolute clowns.
Half measure
😂😂😂 we don’t want to be deterred
As for dealing why is it okay for curaleaf and other private companies to deal
It’s ridiculous it’s not legal. It’s even more ridiculous medical users can’t even grow their own. What use is decriminalisation if the only way for recreational users to get it is to buy it illegally, honestly what incompetence manages to come up with this kinda stuff 🤦♂️
"Americans favor making cannabis legal for adults, according to the findings of a CNN/ORC International survey released late Monday. The percentage is the highest ever reported by the survey, which has been tracking public opinion on the issue since 1973, and marks a 12 percentage point jump in support since the last time pollsters posed the question in 2012" -CNN Poll
The dealers don’t want it legalized either so glad the government as on the same page as them XD
Cannabis should be legalised simple
I’m a medical user in the UK it help me a lot with my spine
JUST LEGALISE IT!!!
What we certainly don’t need are anymore people who feel justified in appointing themselves to be self-deputized morality police. We are very capable of choosing for ourselves if we want to consume cannabis, a far less dangerous choice over alcohol, and we definitely don’t need anyone dictating how we should live our own lives.
Finally a bit of progress🤷
Just legalise it, let people grow their own.
Our mental health services wont cope with the increase in cannabis induced psychosis cases.
It’s a wild plant, free the plant and let the people grow…
This should of been done years ago we are living in the past
Stopping and searching should still be conducted, if your caught with the elder leaf and no knife or weapon then all is good carry on.. but if your stopped and caught with a knife or any weapon regardless if your carrying some cannabis then its a punishable offence.
I could make a million points for legality. But decriminalising is a good first step! … BUT ‘CBD’ Cannabis is already legal and does smell pretty much the same. So stop the stop and searches !!
so how are we meant to own it if we can’t buy it, can we grow it, this is not clear
Prohibition and Reefer Madness are only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic-fringe minority of irrational looney-tune Holier Than Thou types that are on a never ending little personal moral-crusade and witch-hunt against relatively benign cannabis and it’s consumers. The rest of us sane, rational, normal Americans just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate lying prohibitionists and their ridiculous Reefer-Madness-Rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!
I l9ve my food
Criminalising a plant always seemed very British to me. . . Long live the free world.
Legalise and REGULATE it!!!! so its safe AND literal (BILLIONS) will be gained in revenue in tax alone, that can then go towards our NHS and schools!!!
Free the leaf 🎉
just make it legal ffs and tax it
"The report discovered that Cannabis is 114 times less deadly than alcohol. Researchers were able to determine this by comparing the lethal doses with the amount of typical use. Through this approach, Cannabis had the lowest mortality risk to users out of all the drugs they studied. In fact—because the numbers were crossed with typical daily use—Cannabis is the only drug that tested as "low risk." -Complex
Stop asking old people about legalisation of cannabis… they will always be anti.
States "rights" has become just a clever excuse, disguise and blanket authority being used for a very small minority of irrational prohibitionists to be able to criminalize everything that they personally don’t morally approve of. Same with abortion, websites and even books that they don’t morally approve of, and they have the nerve to call it states "rights".
Rational, reasonable people would logically prefer to pay tax on a legal product which they can conveniently acquire to use instantly at a store, rather than be criminalized, persecuted and prosecuted over the possession and use of relatively benign cannabis for recreational use…
Cannabis should be absolutely just as legal and easy to obtain anywhere as alcohol currently is. No exceptions. It’s so easy: As legal and easy to obtain/use as alcohol currently is. Why hold relatively benign, often healing cannabis to any sort of irrational, stricter double standard than perfectly legal alcohol?