Legalise the Cannabis plant (46)

LadyinDublin: as i said on the thread in the other forum, im glad the opinions on this site arent used to judge wether to legalise it or not. with alcohol and tobacco why do we need a third drug on the market? do you want your children buying it as easy as they can buy alcohol underage? personally, i wouldnt trust someone to work for or with me if they were known to smoke it. ill make the same points as the other thread. what about the butcher (memory impaired) forgets to wash his/her hands? if you legalise this, people cant get jobs as smokers. and i dont see why they should be called stoners and not junkies. i no plenty who have smoked it. someone who is smoking it regular should be aable to be called a junkie, like someone who injects regular (althought they are far less of a risk to others). to those that say pot isnt the gateway to harder drugs, remember heroin (and morphine since they are very similar) come from the opium poppy, so it is also a natural product but we do not see campaigns to legalise it.

In response to: Legalize it then tax it in relative terms to alcohol
ie
High strength:Skunk Vs Spirits higher tax
Normal strenght: non skunk vs Beer lower

Then raise drinking age to 21 years of age and legalise cannabis to 21 years of age also.
Instead of demolishing closed pubs reopen them as smoking houses for patrons of cannabis.

LadyinDublin: as i said on the thread in the other forum, im glad the opinions on this site arent used to judge wether to legalise it or not. with alcohol and tobacco why do we need a third drug on the market? do you want your children buying it as easy as they can buy alcohol underage? personally, i wouldnt trust someone to work for or with me if they were known to smoke it. ill make the same points as the other thread. what about the butcher (memory impaired) forgets to wash his/her hands? if you legalise this, people cant get jobs as smokers. and i dont see why they should be called stoners and not junkies. i no plenty who have smoked it. someone who is smoking it regular should be aable to be called a junkie, like someone who injects regular (althought they are far less of a risk to others). to those that say pot isnt the gateway to harder drugs, remember heroin (and morphine since they are very similar) come from the opium poppy, so it is also a natural product but we do not see campaigns to legalise it.

kidatheart: I'd much rather work next to someone that smoked a joint the night before, than drank a bottle of whiskey.

Where do you draw the conclusion that pot is a gateway drug because heroin and morphine are created from a poppy?

They're hardly a natural product, they're a highly refined drug from a plant base, and so are many pharmaceuticals. Are pills your doctor prescribes a natural product as well?

Personally, I don't smoke it, but I hate to see the misinformation spread by people that don't have a freaking clue at all!