Comments on: Cannabis users are no longer third class criminals! Welcome to Class Bspecial.

By: big pol

big pol — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:44:05 +0000

now in poland is like in uk in 70`s . people going to jails for diry pipe or old roach

By: weiqifan

weiqifan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:42:39 +0000

Government ministers who advocate reclassification and draw on some ‘studies’ on schizophrenia
and cannabis use draw on the expertise of some well respected
psychiatrists. Lord Alderdice (never
elected as an Allience Party MP in
Ulster) is a psychiatrist, and he
was occassionally asked questions
on cannabis law reform when he had
meetings with student audiences.
He defended the prohibitionist position. Louis Appleby is also
a well known psychiatrist who has
written excellent books on the medical consequences of geography, industry, poverty and other forms
of deprivation. He is also widely
quoted by the prohibitionists.

This ‘spurious’ link does present
some moral problems to members of
the health services working with
schizophrenics. Should they help
the patients to find dealers? Mental health patients are a vulnerable group, and it would
be good to put them in touch with
respectful dealers who will not
run away with the money, and behave in a courteus and decorous
manner with their customers, rather as a good therapist should do so.

Louis Appleby is sufficiently astute to know that there are those in the therapeutic profession who disagree with his views and seems not to object to
tabloid headlines such as ‘Drug
Dealers Trawl Psychiatric Units
for Customers’.

WEIQIFAN

By: UKCIA

UKCIA — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:27:14 +0000

Regarding the recent Horizon programme, watch this space…

By: dragon83uk

dragon83uk — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:03:56 +0000

Brilliant blog, unfortunately I can’t help but feel as though the people who really need to read it never will. Which is one of the major problems with the whole legalization issue. We all sit her talking over these obvious points whilst all those mps and daily mail readers sit around agreeing with the crazy scaremongering that they’re all too used to. Speaking of which, did anyone at UKCIA check out the horizon documentary (The Devils Weed?) that was on a couple of weeks back? I personally was disgusted by the way they seemed to be continuing this ridiculous link to schizophrenia (despite mentioning once that the link can’t be proved!!). The whole show seemed to be trying to enforce the scare tactics that seem to be becoming more and more prevalent in our society.
Finally I’d just like to point out to Lowryder2 that unfortunately the paranoia thing is actually a weed related problem. It comes from having to much THC (which does cause paranoia) with not enough CBD’s (which are anti-psychotics).

By: Lowryder2 for me

Lowryder2 for me — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:42:34 +0000

I completely agree with tokerdesigner.The link between Cannabis and Tobacco needs investigating.I truly beleive half the fear and paranoia some experience is a direct result of the rush associated with mixing weed with tobacco.Every Toker knows or should know that weed minus Tobacco is a totally different experience.

By: tokerdesigner

tokerdesigner — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:26:49 +0000

Elsewhere on the website Derek has a chart showing that as of a recent year cannabis users in the UK were over 2/3 addicted to rolling cannabis together in the same “joint” with tobacco. I think in discourse with politicians (i.e. via publications they are likely to read if they know the public is reading it) this point must be emphasized, with a string of reasons:

1. Tobacco is the no. 1 character-destroying and insanity-causing drug of all time, with millions staying hooked year after year even though they know about the mortality etc., therefore all considerations concerning cannabis use in the UK and Europe at the present time are affected by this issue of mising with tobacco. Pathologies screamingly attributed to cannabis in the tobacco-sponsored media are to be examined as possibly caused by the tobacco or some special synergy between cannabis and tobacco.

2. The number one most dangerous thing about cannabis under these circumstances is that it can serve as a “trojan horse”– device for getting kids hooked on tobacco and adding to the yearly worldwide 5.4 million death toll.

By: Chris Theo

Chris Theo — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:58:45 +0000

Here here!

Good read. It is a sorry state of affairs when the government bows to pressure from media and bedgering by the opposition despite the government sponsored report into reclassification. I read this report myself and it doesnt matter how they spin it the report advised cannabis proved less of a danger than any class B drug on there yet somehow, as if by magic, sad predicatable magic, we are finally here.

I’m so angry and disappointed with this government but the unfortunate thing is the only other real electable party (conservatives) have an even more prohibitive view on cannabis. Perhaps this view will permeate into more accepted drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol… But then again, perhaps not. Where will all the ministers go for a pint after parliament?