The Afternoon Agenda: Should we legalise cannabis?
The Afternoon Agenda: Should we legalise cannabis?
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The police officer on here sounds so unintelligent and uneducated. There is so much information out there about it’s benefits and how alcohol and tobacco are worse it’s embarrassing seeing him trying to defend them over it. It’s absurd to think someone in a job like his can be so unintelligent and uneducated.
Psycosis in people who would suffer from it anyway. it wont just give randoms psycosis lol…… its these littles bits of info that need to be explaind or others will just get confused…. fml.
Legalization now
Keep praying to the big man up stairs to let it happen I need it .i vaporizer it for health and eat lefts over in a brew
He’s on the ball, eh?
Oh god, same old tired debate going on for decades. Everyone who wants it is getting it anyway.
If it’s legalised it can be taxed and cuts down on organised crime plus alcohol is proven to be worse for you. It’s time to legalise and let people make their own decisions. The only reason the police are hostile is because if it was legal who they gonna arrest now?
Legalisation is the only solution
That cop was talking total shit, The interviewer pretty much debunked everything he said, but still he continued to sound like a broken record. If you let people grow their own or buy it from a legal dispensary, there would be no money in it for big illegal grow operations. Wish they would stop trying to demonise cannabis. I bet that cop still goes for a beer after work and that fine hey..
I’m sick of being GOVERNED
Well there is already medical cannabis on prescription for a flower bud in uk and it has transformed patients lifes for the better.
That police officer is so ignorant of cannabis. The police CANNOT win the war on drugs our tax money is paying for that. By making it illegal your making it 10x more dangerous
Drugs are bad – just say NO!
What cracks me up is that people are doing drugs anyway! What is the point in making it illegal.
I use cannabis through a vaporiser to eleviate my insomnia it works. I have tried other herbs to help but only cannabis has helped me . You need the Indica strains for insomnia !, it also makes sex last longer and more enjoyable win win !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bringing down THC. No.
LEGALISE. Serious organised crime will cut majorly.
Vulnerable people will be elevated.
Going to buy from a store will be far better, safer, secure.
Medical cannabis is only really a racket.
Legalise drugs
If people want a smoke at 1 o’clock in the morning and their (legal) supplier is closed (or he mentions buying it online with a two-day delay – what?), then those people will simply want some NOW. And so what – they’re going to run around at 1 in the morning, interacting with criminal gangs – that largely wouldn’t exist (for cannabis) if it were legal?
This is nonsense. If people want a drink at 1 o clock in the morning but have been too foolish or disorganised to get their supplies in before the shops close, then they will curse themselves and do without. They aren’t going to go out in the small hours and engage with criminal gangs for a bottle of whiskey – who likely wouldn’t have it anyway.
The man’s a numpty.
What a moron, ‘because it’s illegal we shouldn’t make it legal’, turf wars only happen because of police busts taking down one gang and then there’s a power struggle between gangs. Also most medical cannabis users still use the black market because the only way to do it legally is to pay through the nose for a private prescription.
The moment a police officer kicks in doors, seize private property like a harmless plant and remove people’s liberty for doing absolutely nothing wrong and blindly enforces these unjust laws then they become a violent sub human domestic terrorist. The war on drugs is evil. It doesn’t target criminals, it targets peaceful people who just want to be left alone. It’s ironic that every police chief waits until retirement to speak out on the evil war on drugs after a career of being a tax funded parasite that contributed to ruining peoples lives
When the police officer is asked "should we have a prohibition on alcohol" he very quickly steers the conversation in a different direction. If a product is illegal then it can only be traded on the black market. By legalising cannabis people can purchase it safely from licensed traders and the black market will be reduced siignificantly. The key is getting the pricing right – if you charge so much that no-one can afford it then the black market will remain, as it does with tobacco. If tobacco was cheaper, there wouldn’t be such a large black market for it. At the moment 100% of cannabis sales in the UK produces £0.00 for the Treasury – if it was legalised then it would produce income tax & VAT just like any other good.
Free the weed. Free the people.
the first guy knows what addiction is and its more than just words from a book repeated from a jobs worth in a fake title. im an alcholic and its hurmful to every one else around me if i drink, not smoking weed at home is my own business as it course no harm to anyone else. the gangs and police with the " war on drugs course the real harm
Taking away peoples lives for selling a plant that helps people feel relaxed is extremely fucked up.
should draw a clear line between soft drugs like cannabis and hard drugs like coke/speed/heroin etc.. by making soft drugs illigal.. it gives people a reason to search a dealer to obtain them (since cannabis isn’t broadly seen as a hugely damaging drug).. once they have found that dealer, then that dealer may push other drugs on them. Thats your gateway right there.
When the message goes out that illigal drugs are bad.. it should actually mean they are worse than any legal drug.. it should literally be very clear.. and a very thick line to cross.
People are going to use it anyway either way so legalising it would make it safer for people and allow the police to task resources to better uses.
someone growing a plant at home and smoking privately is currently illegal . what harm is there in that?
I’ve been a heavy user for years nothing to be proud of but I feel great and my work life’s been perfect
Well done to the news anchor, asking the right questions and pointing out hypocrisy
The man from Cleveland saying alot of people do have a problem with weed and they don’t want it regulated are the same people downing alcohol at the weekends
I don’t like alcohol personally, I hate the stuff, I then want that banned!
You try taking alcohol of the people that have a problem with weed and see what happens
I cannot stand hypocrites
that copper is the biggest whopper i have heard on YouTube. what i one sided view fuck all the people that depend on canibis to survive day to day
That cop has no clue! No place globally who has legalised it has seen negative social effects. There is NO ARGUMENT
This is so embarrassing in 2021. No facts at all. I have ms and its the only reason I have a working pain free life… shocking so clueless it’s scary
Alcohol is the most dangerous drug.
You can legally change your state of consciousness with alcohol to your heart’s content, a drug statistically proven to be far more detrimental to peoples physical health, and mental health. The fact that the UK government cannot apply the same laws and regulations we use for alcohol consumption to the recreational use of cannabis (a far safer drug than alcohol) is madness. Legalisation would create a safe abundance of regulated cannabis that would create an environment where illegal cannabis dealers would no longer be able to compete. There is only crime because there is no lawful way to sell it to people. I wonder how much criminal activity is associated with alcohol production in comparison to cannabis production? There are countless examples of legalisation working completely in various other parts of the world already. No authority should be able to deny people of their right to change their own conciousness, particularly with a drug that is proven to be safer than many other things that ARE legal within our society. The police probably couldn’t face the amount of cuts that would follow if legalisation did occur, as currently millions of pounds a year a wasted on policing an issue that could be for the whole resolved quite easily.
Yes legalise it, its been proved it helps people, if you can have alcohol then why can’t we have weed?
Got a feeling if THC became legal, regulated and sold in the UK, it would be taxed like alcohol, £20 grams, 50 pound 8ths etc. Since many ppl in parliament have little drug/chemistry/pharmacology experience and have never smoked bud, they probs think making it more expensive than the black market would deter use, na ah, black market would boom.
So it’s OK to drive you over in car, if you are pissed. No plans to ban it , govner
how much were you payed to say that mr professor???????
Steve Turner is proof of how the police are failing week in and week out. He proves the definition of insanity by still waging war on drugs, a war that has made no impact. His arguments are conflicting his own points. The cigarette industry is 30% illegitimate and yet 100% of the cannabis industry is, still he won’t yield on the fact that taking 70% of the cannabis industry off the streets and taxing it etc would make a difference.
Should have been legalised decades ago, how can we be “global Britain” when were stuck in the dark ages?
the police man is a melt
Piggy NO WANTY.OH WELL
I think it’s a obvious choice. Legalise cannabis or ban alcohol which is far more toxic.
This ‘medical’ guy just said how high you get depends on how much you take. WRONG. It depends on the strength of the weed. It isnt like alcohol with a cumulative effect, once youve hit the limit of the high that the strain you have can give, even if you smoked an oz you wouldnt get any higher.
OK so I live in Canada and cannabis has been legal now since 2018. Cannabis does NOT increase crime or violence … this copper (Steve) needs to look around the world where it is legal and the sky didn’t fall. For price argument. a gram of legal cannabis in Canada is 3x cheaper than illegal sources. Legalizing makes total sense.
Cannabis does nothing but benefit people that use it and people that need it. People need a choice
Another lying cop pretending he’s doing a good job while infact he’s making the matter worse fact. This is medicine that millions need hence why so many people smoke it or use it to treat disease and pain without an opioid in sight so we live longer 🤔
Alcohol kills many people every year. Cannibis has killed..none. Legalize it. Damn
It’s only illegal because hemp was poised to replace the timber industry
Why does the cop guy automatically come to the conclusion that if weed were legalised, it would be so expensive that there would still be a black market for unregulated supply? We know that this would be the case no doubt, like it is with tobacco and to a large part, with alcohol. That’s because the government, and people in support of the gov, like this chap, are GREEDY.
If weed was permitted to be supplied, by private farmers, without the imposition of huge taxes at the point of sale or licence fees for the supplier or farmer, then there is no reason why the price should be half or even less than half the current black market value. In addition if private citizens were allowed to grow their own (but not sell it, rather like home brew or home wine-making), then the cost (to themselves) would be even less than a legalised commercial supply.
Everything he said, regarding current problems was fairly and squarely because of the laws against it, with perhaps the sole exception of driving under the influence (and flying, machinery, etc). Gangs aren’t hacking into each other with machetes or shooting guns or smuggling people because of some ideological notion about ‘weed man’. They are committing these serious crimes because of the black market money generated around ILLEGAL cannabis. If potatoes were thousands of pounds per kilo and people considered there were no alternatives and growing your own potatoes was illegal, then a black market and criminal enterprises would emerge around potatoes. That wouldn’t be the fault of the spuds, but rather the laws surrounding them.
How do people like this get into such important and powerful positions with regard to government and law? This is another issue that needs addressing. We should not have midwits running society.
A detailed look into political corruption is needed before cannabis is ever made legal…. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason to keep it illegal