Should I be jailed for breaking the law?

[Halibut]

Why screw up your head with either cannabis or alcohol? Never seen the attraction myself.

 

Because people find it enjoyable. It's nothing more complicated than that.

[Halibut]

I know it has been debated at length before but why do you consider cannabis is illegal and alcohol legal ?

 

It's all tied up in history. I haven't the time or the inclination right now, but I'm sure there are others who could explain.

[VideoPro]

"Why risk imprisonment by using an illegal drug when you can lick a toad's back"

 

So, errr hey man. Far out. Like, where can I score some toads?

Really? This is a thing?

[Rampent]

So, errr hey man. Far out. Like, where can I score some toads?

Really? This is a thing?

 

Toads will not cause liver failure, or a spell in the madhouse, but will give you warts

[onewheeldave]

Short story about the effects of smoking pot , an old school friend of mine worked as a male nurse at middlewood hospital in the late sixties, he decided to dropout and go to norway on the hippie trail picking up casual jobs to survive.He wrote for a short while and then we lost touch untill the eighties when i read in the star he had jumped off a tower block.It turned out that the pot had turned him schizphrenic and he had spent many years in the same hospital he used to work in.An otherwise clever lads life cut short due to his pot habit.He would have been in his early sixties now with a family and grandchildren what a waste.

 

You'll find a lot of non-cannabis users also end up in middlewood or kill themselves- mental illness and depression affects users and non-users.

[onewheeldave]

I have to agree. I also think it's a shame that somebody can admit openly to breaking the law on a public forum and not suffer the consequences of their criminality.

 

I think it's great- the more people are open about cannabis use, the more obvious it will be that it's a relatively harmless activity enjoyed by a huge portion of the population, most of who are normal, productive people.

[onewheeldave]

I thought I'd make it 6.

 

I thought I'd make it 7, but was a bit late and had to settle for making it 20 instead

[julado]

I think you should be jailed immediately.....for not sharing the spliff with us all.

[Halibut]

You'll find a lot of non-cannabis users also end up in middlewood or kill themselves- mental illness and depression affects users and non-users.

 

That's true - and of course in the case of choogling's unfortunate old pal, there's no way of knowing whether the cannabis contributed to the onset of his illness or whether he would have beome ill anyway.

[onewheeldave]

These legalise drug threads could also have damaging consequences to young impressionable minds.

 

As could the absense of such threads.

 

Given the amont of harm caused by the 'war on cannabis' and the current level of misinformation, I think it's imortant that young minds can access some sensible info on the subject.