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Post by totheleft on Apr 2, 2024 19:47:33 GMT
I'm certainly not a user of Alcohol.
Early indications and effects of cannabis legalization
Cannabis legalization in North America appears to have increased daily cannabis use, especially potent cannabis products and particularly among young adults. Associated increases in people with psychiatric disorders, suicides and hospitalizations have also been reported. Legalization has also increased tax revenues and generally reduced arrest rates for cannabis possession.
Continued growth in drug production and trafficking
Cocaine manufacture was at a record high in 2020, growing 11 per cent from 2019 to 1,982 tons. Cocaine seizures also increased, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, to a record 1,424 tons in 2020.
There the Answer to your Question srb
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2024 20:28:01 GMT
So cannabis legalisation decreased arrest rates for cannabis possession. No shit sherlock, lol. Cops do after all only tend to arrest people for doing things that are illegal
Cannabis use was never ever deterred by it being illegal. It was simply a golden opportunity for criminal gangs and gangsters. If cannabis use has increased since legalisation it most likely would have anyway. You have yet to explain how outlawing something which stops nobody who wants to from buying it in any way helps
Cocaine has an often very different supply chain. It is highly expensive and mostly only indulged in by well off people most of the time. That market exists regardless of cannabis supply and is growing largely because of ever more people with loads of money. Most street dealers don't deal in cocaine because very few of their customers can afford it. But you wouldnt know that because you have no experience on the ground
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Post by totheleft on Apr 3, 2024 2:08:46 GMT
My point still remains that cannabis leads to Class A drugs .
As for lower rates of cannabis arrest it shows that legalishing drugs hasn't completely pushed the dealer of the streets like you and others have Claimed .,
Has for experience on the streets I literary met hundreds of Class A drug uses with my charity work with the Homeless ..
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2024 12:58:53 GMT
My point still remains that cannabis leads to Class A drugs . Which you havent backed up with any explanation as to why that makes sense My point remains that a major reason why cannabis leads to class A drugs is because it is illegal and thus supplied by the same criminals. I have experience of this on the ground and seen it with my own eyes. All you have is an emotional need to have it declared bad by law, even though this stops no one and creates the ideal conditions for cannabis to act as a gateway drug. Cannabis is more dangerous as an illegal drug than it would be as a legal one. |
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Post by totheleft on Apr 3, 2024 13:16:28 GMT
My point still remains that cannabis leads to Class A drugs . Which you havent backed up with any explanation as to why that makes sense My point remains that a major reason why cannabis leads to class A drugs is because it is illegal and thus supplied by the same criminals. I have experience of this on the ground and seen it with my own eyes. All you have is an emotional need to have it declared bad by law, even though this stops no one and creates the ideal conditions for cannabis to act as a gateway drug. Cannabis is more dangerous as an illegal drug than it would be as a legal one. I feel this Answer your question Serb If you notice to top users of Illicit drugs was Spain last year who have legal canabish and Netherlands this year both have legal cannabis sells . That was inrealition to my post about illicit drugs taking. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2024 13:41:29 GMT
Which you havent backed up with any explanation as to why that makes sense My point remains that a major reason why cannabis leads to class A drugs is because it is illegal and thus supplied by the same criminals. I have experience of this on the ground and seen it with my own eyes. All you have is an emotional need to have it declared bad by law, even though this stops no one and creates the ideal conditions for cannabis to act as a gateway drug. Cannabis is more dangerous as an illegal drug than it would be as a legal one. I feel this Answer your question Serb If you notice to top users of Illicit drugs was Spain last year who have legal canabish and Netherlands this year both have legal cannabis sells . That was inrealition to my post about illicit drugs taking. I am not a Serb by the way but that was probably a typo. lol And the likelihood is that it would have been even worse in these countries were cannabis illegal. The actual fact is that the average age of addicts in those countries is getting much higher over time, clearly indicating that fewer young people are moving on to Class A drugs as a result of legalisation. You have utterly failed to show that illegality stops anyone. I havent touched cannabis in decades but am certain I could find someone to sell me some withing five minutes if I wanted to. Illegality does not stop anyone so how does that help? It just encourages the growth of criminal gangs. And turns cannabis into the ultimate gateway drug by ensuring it is sold by the same criminals selling everything else. I have told you repeatedly now that I have seen and experienced this for myself. But you ignore it. And re your earlier point about working with the homeless. No one disputes that many of them take class A drugs after starting out on cannabis though in fact in many cases they would have started out on alcohol even before that. What you have utterly failed to explain is why legalisation of cannabis would make that worse, when it is the fact of the same criminals supplying it which makes it so effective as a gateway drug. I.e. cannabis is a far more effective gateway drug than it would be if sold legally. This is clear logic, reinforced by my own personal experience. Trying to make people like you see such obvious facts is exasperating in the extreme. It is like trying to debate with a Daily Mail headline. No matter how much personal experience and logical reasoning you deploy to introduce a bit of reasoned reality, it still keeps emoting the same old shit at you. Also, about your claim that street dealers never disappeared. I never said they did or would. After all, everything else would still be illegal so of course some of them would still exist to supply those who had already made their way to other drugs. Far fewer people would be buying cannabis from them though so far less likely to be introduced to other drugs. Which is why the average aage of addicts tends to be increasing in countries where cannabis is legal. I am following logic and reason, reinforced by personal experience. You are following your emotions and trying to bend logic and reason to fit your feelings. It is almost always what people on your side of this argument do. |
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