[Urban Cragou]

Originally Posted by Gusto Brunt

I've never taken cannabis in my life. I've drank booze. Lots of it. Not any more though.

But drugs, nope. I hear lots of people saying you can smell cannabis a mile off. Well, I couldn't tell you what it smells like. My friends have never taken it either.

I don't agree that it should be legalised. I've heard some horror stories about young people going insane after years of taking it, and yes it is a gateway.

Just like booze is a gateway to stronger booze, from wine to vodka.

A lot of mental imbalance comes from not enough CBD (and other ‘mellowing entourage cannabinoids’) in the fray to balance out some of the potential negatives of too much unmitigated THC. Ignorance about cannabis and the best way to optimise the experience does more harm than the plant itself. And even at that, even on the black market, it’s never directly caused someone to fatally overdose, not if it isn’t spiced with synthetics, whereas alcohol does about a trillion times the damage cannabis ever could. Prisons would be less populated and violent crime (from domestic abuse to random knifing) would be down if alcohol didn’t exist.

Skunk smells? Let’s go the same way nicotine’s gone, then, and have everyone vape it instead. Case closed. End of story there.

All-in-all, alcohol is a far, far, far more potentially destructive and poisonous drug than cannabis could ever be. That’s just a fact. Being anti-weed while you sit in the pub with a pint every evening or down a bottle of wine whenever your kids are stressing you out is nothing other than sheer hypocrisy. All the arguments against weed are all-the-more reason to legalise (or at-least decriminalise) it and break ignorance and stereotypes against it. It hasn’t broken Canada, Thailand, Portugal or Holland. It won’t break a nation of hypocritical piss-heads either.