LDs At Their Best: Legalise Cannabis/Ban Smoking

Nah. There was an argument for legalising it before the modern super strength variants were developed but we can't put that genie back in the bottle now.

That'd be no brainer like someone high as a kite driving into me on a road would it.

Tell you what legalise cannabis just as long as you accept anyone found high in charge of a car, child, any weapon, any other dangerous machinery or making life critical decisions gets to be banged up for 5 years first offence, doubled second etc.

Deal?

Alcohol is easy to detect, anyone with a nose can detect someone pissed so easily. Cannabis very much not so

So BIG difference

I suspect if the health effects were known many years ago, tobacco would be banned and cannabis and alcohol permitted. Not an issue I spend too much time worrying about however…..

yes for those it helps it shoould be prescribed just like we still (and rightly so) still prescribe heroin (for some terminal cancer patients - its original use)

You've read about the problems Portugal faces I presume, do you want those problems in the UK?

Drug use shouldn't be heavily criminalised and penalties should mostly be a small slap on the wrist for tiny amounts, but dealing should be dealt with harshly, the black market should be crimped and there should be small deterrents on possession of small amounts of drugs so people aren't encouraged to recreationally use them. Drug use increased in Portugal among the young, that's not good.

It should be deterred not encouraged, but not heavily criminalised either, there's a fine balance.

For drugs that confer a medical benefit on the user, for specific conditions, they should be legalised if there's a medical need for them only.

And I agree with reasonable taxes on alcohol and tobacco to deter its use, but nothing more than that, anything else is the government getting too involved in people's lives. The obvious difference between tobacco and drugs is that tobacco doesn't really get you "high" or impair you, unless you're talking those ridiculous shisha hits or something special - as for alcohol, there are a lot of penalties for improper use of alcohol when it comes to driving or public intoxication etc already