You must be potty! (Should cannabis be legalised?)

Member Name: thedevilinme

Product:	Should cannabis be legalised?
Date:	13/06/09 (235 review reads)
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Advantages: We can smash down on it

Disadvantages: The police are having their hands tied

Hunter S Thompson once wrote that the 'Catholics administer cocaine and the Muslims the heroine, so now you know where they get their crazy ideas from'.
Now I'm sure Class A drug use wasn't responsible for the Holy Scripture in the two great books; but it is interesting to note that nearly all drug production happens in the most religious countries around the world, South America and South East Asia producing 90% of the hard stuff. I suppose you need to be seriously 'trippy' to believe in some aspects of religion though for it to catch on.

The international banks are not too bothered about the billions of dollars raised illegally through drugs around the world through those religions as they gleefully launder the money by turning a blind eye. The huge chemical conglomerates don't mind much either as they produce the chemicals required to purify heroine and cocaine, and so always make sure they keep up with demand, those chemicals legally produced because they are used in other everyday processes, although nowhere near the volume of the chemicals produced. No government seems to be telling chemical companies to stop over producing these constituents. 85% of all dollar bills in Miami have cocaine residue on them, drug money passing through all our hands at some point around the world. Hard drugs are just another industry and many of those involved in fighting the drug trade have probably used or smoked it or blown it up the nose at some point. There's huge demand so the drug war is hypocritical and so obviously unwinable.

But its cannabis that this review is supposed to be about and after New Labour foolishly reclassified cannabis to Class C there has been a huge explosion of cannabis factories shooting up around the U.K., not only because of supply reasons but because the prison sentences have also been declassified down for the production and sale of the drug so the risk cut. You can now gut an innocuous suburban house in the U.K and grow a five hundred grand crop in places you would least expect it, Vietnamese and Chinese nationals responsible for nearly all of this type of crime in the U.K. today. These Guys and girls come from the old empire countries where we once taught how to mass produce hashish in the bad old days and so why not cut out the middle-man and sell it directly on the shop floor here? Hong Kong's sole purpose two hundred years ago was to make sure the British opium trade spread around the world.
Just as Muslims drug cartels get the heroine across Europe through the Balkans it's the South East Asians now producing our pot and cannabis on British streets, other ethnic minorities and the British white underclass only too willing to help distribute the product for that obvious demand, so no need to smuggle it anymore to suffer the really big prison sentences. Its gang related and so very organised and so not something you just fall into to make a few quid anymore. Tie it in with people smuggling and other crimes and the rewards are huge. Its not going away soon.

The police never pushed for reclassification, not because they felt the drug was being used more responsible these days but because they were offered the chance to reduce the amount of tiresome police paper work arresting users and dealers it generates, the cops unable to hit their targets because of that distraction, but the dealers hitting their targets because of the liberal hand of Labour drug policies.

The hopeless Brian Paddock, the gay copper partial to a spliff or two, decided to introduce soft drug policies in Lambeth and Brixton, resulting in the gun crime rate exploding in South London as the price dropped and the black kids warred over shrinking trade and turf, now 60% of gun and knife fatalities in the capital in the 11% black community, unemployment rates as high as 45% in this ethnic group as the drug trade takes hold and doesn't let go. So overrun are the police with this gang/drug culture that only 20% of kids carrying knives are being locked up, avoiding the sensitive numbers that would be imprisoned if the law was carried out. The police, under the excellent if slightly insane London Mayor, have blitzed these areas with metal detectors and extra patrols in the last six months that knife and gun fatality has not only fallen in London by 25% but nationally by 12%, demonstrating how concentrated knife, gun and serious drug crime can be in our bigger cities.

With that ease of availability in the U.K and the kudos of smoking pot dropping because it's deemed no longer illegal it was no surprise the kids now chase a bigger hit, cocaine use now rampant across the country and in all social classes. If you smoke pot with your student or liberal mates and claim it's harmless and should be made legal, and then turn a blind eye when a 14-year black kid gets shot and killed by another kid on his bike then that is partly your fault guys. He was shot because pot is almost legal in the inner city so that kid now has to get involved in selling cocaine to make a living and keep his place and, more importantly, his 'respect' and kudos in the gang. With absent black fathers running at 50% and the white establishment petrified to get involved in black crime and issues these problems will only increase. And as the Turks, Old Russian caucus countries and Somali gangs begin to take over south and East London's drug trade it can only get worse.

Clearly the current system isn't working and it would also be madness to legalise soft or hard drugs. Can you imagine the law suits from middle-class parents over their kids suffering psychosis from Tescos 'Canisthebiz' ? The New Labour middle ground seems to be to turn a blind eye and make token arrests... politically better to bust foreign nationals growing the stuff and ethnic minorities distributing it, rather than raid red brick universities and make an example of the users that will go on to be the people that will fight the drug war one day.

My solution would be to introduce drug tests at work and play. If you get caught drunk driving you lose your car, and for some, your job. Marijuana stays in your blood stream for up to three weeks, one of the reasons why prison inmates prefer to use Class A because it clears through the system in 24 hours, the reason why you wouldn't want to take it and then be tested for it at work if it meant being fired. They do this in America and it does work, although many heavy drug users tend to be unemployed or at college, the best place for it. Would you smoke pot if you felt you could be thrown out of university, especially when you have to pay for your degree these days? If you smoke it then you are part of the problem and contributed to Danny Kinsellas loss of life and Chris Okwinis, the talented young footballer. Part legalizing pot smoking has moved kids on to more damaging drugs and so we have seen far more knife and gun crime. We have to follow Boris Johnson's way and smash down on it, regardless of who you upset.

Summary: People like to do illligal things..