[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

So comparisons to alcohol are relevant but when I compare skunk to legalised cannabis it's a straw man tactic?...

Discussing skunk which is a huge problem in my area in a thread relating to cannabis is not reaching and/or desperate in my view and is the reason I found your dismissal of my opinion so insulting.

I know alcohol is dangerous unfortunately you can't put that genie back in the bottle, however as drug driving is now an offence and skunk farms still prevalent how would legalising cannabis benefit the UK apart from making some filthy rich?

Yes because, like you said when it we were talking about alcohol, if it was legalised and sold, the process of growing it would become standardised and regulated which would mean that, like you said when it came to the home brewed, people would be more likely to buy the legal variety due to simply being easier to get.

You can buy cheap knockoff fags that are hazardous to your health, you can buy knockoff beer that's just as dangerous too but these aren't huge widespread issues because the vast majority of people will go for the legal options. If they legalised weed then chances are your area's skunk problem would end becoming less of a problem since people would just end up buying the legit stuff.

If you legalise something, you can control it and you remove the power from the criminal element who would otherwise have control over how much skunk makes it into the public's hands. Weed is basically harmless, certainly more harmless than tobacco or alcohol so why shouldn't it be legalised? Legalising it will reduce the amount of skunk that's around.