[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Redway

Legalise/decriminalise it fully.

I would support that being done too definitely.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I would support that being done too definitely.

Absolutely.

There’s just no reason for it to continue to be illegal when two of the most potentially harmful vices in alcohol and tobacco (which rank second only to heroin in some respects)have been legalised for a long time. Alcohol’s more embedded in the culture but that doesn’t make it better, just less stigmatised and marginalised.

Prohibition doesn’t protect society. It just fuels stigma, ignorance and criminalisation of peace and introspection. Side-by-side the pot-bellied bloke who beats his wife and gets barred from the pub after one-too-many Stellas and consequent gropings, I don’t see what’s so bad about vaping some green/applying a cream for pain-relief and bodily homeostasis, getting artistic and listening to psychology podcasts over bumbleberry pie. The over-embedment of alcohol in society comes at the cost of addiction, delirium-tremens, alcoholic hallucinosis/paranoia (which is conveniently swept under the carpet compared to weed-induced paranoia), rape, violence, broken families, lost jobs, bloated healthcare systems (especially in A&E on Friday/Saturday night) and liver-damage.