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Originally Posted by kestrelx
Keeping cannabis illegal is maintaining criminal gang control of something and thus fuelling that street gang culture and making it more glamorous to delinquents to become part of a gang and carry out criminal acts to take drugs. Causing more crime and more problems for the Police! By legalising cannabis that whole gang culture would collapse and I think in the long term less people would smoke it because it was no longer "cool" to be part of that culture.  |
And legalising it would stop that, would it?
You may be of that opinion, but I am not.
Legalising it would perhaps make the government tax it, and so there would still be a black market out there for it....and you do not address the progression by some users to the harder drugs.
Anyone who sees drug taking(in whatever form)as cool needs their head testing......it isn't big, glamourous or clever.
We need to educate the youngsters who may use illegal substances, by letting them see and speak to recovering addicts....giving them a spell in a rehab unit or psychiatric facility....let them see the potential harm that even these so called 'harmless' drugs can cause.