Calls to grow UK economy with cannabis as Snoop Dogg invests in ‘untapped’ market
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/cannabis-snoop-dogg-nhs-farm-uk-5HjdGT5_2/
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Calls to grow UK economy with cannabis as Snoop Dogg invests in ‘untapped’ market
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/cannabis-snoop-dogg-nhs-farm-uk-5HjdGT5_2/
Posted by StGuthlac2025
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It’s already a pretty mature market in many places. By the time we legalise it here, we’ll be competing against established global brands with the economies of scale on their side. Much of the profit will end up going overseas.
We can just add it to the list of lost opportunities of the past 2 decades.
It’s a no-brainer.
There are risks of some mental issues with chronic consumption, but compared to the risks of other legal drugs, they’re pretty small, and the benefits in terms of income, removing crime, etc, they’re dwarfed.
There’s already a plethora of CBD flower shops operating here.
Legalising recreational cannabis is a pragmatic solution to raising tax revenue without raising income tax on working people, and creates a new industry that will grow the economy. Along with numerous other benefits that will greatly outweigh the health risks and other minor downsides. Not to mention it is basically defacto legal due to lack of police enforcement, I regularly smell someone smoking a joint in and around my local town centre and high street. So naturally Labour will continue to ignore it as an option because “the smell ruins people’s lives”.
Increase tourism. Increase jobs available. Increase police availability. Redirect (limited) police resources to more pressing matters. Tax the hell out of it. Take it out of the hands of dealers selling it. Cut off people being trafficked in for illegal grow operations. Enforce a strict age limit policy. Enforce potency regulation, as it can be “too strong” currently, similar to prohibition in the US. Increase education surrounding it. Have coffeeshops aid the dying high street.
The people are going to do it anyway, so it’s either the current situation, or the above.
At university, a huge grow operation around the corner from my student house got taken down, but you could still have other dealers deliver faster than an ambulance or takeaway would arrive.
At 17, it was easier to get cannabis than rolling papers.
The war on drugs has failed.
Money sitting on the table. Were already the largest medical supplier in the world or something like that.
Now, if only there was a way to fill this blackhole the government keep talking about…
They can but the legislation should favour smaller businesses for growing, selling, cafes etc. We don’t want or need more faceless massive equity vampire firms sucking money out.
Keep it small businesses, who will spend profits and not send it overseas to shareholders.
This is such a no brainer vote winner for parties in the next general election. Way past time to legalise and regulate. Taking the business from the criminal gangs and their associated links to harder drugs, less safe product and exploitation of workers (people trafficking etc)
All the experimentation has been done by more progressive countries so there are many working models to draw from, their science is sound, the world hasn’t caved in, they’re bringing in huge profit which can be used in so many ways. Some of that profit can fund more mental health facilities, and mop up any potential increase in cases due to cannabis, but my personal view is that mental health is such a multi faceted issue, that to blame any increase purely on cannabis use is misguided.
Less strain on police, NHS, can be used medicinally for a multitude of issues and benefit the country recreationally too.
The fact that we’re on Daily Mail island and people aren’t really told about these benefits in a clear way, they’ll barely get mentioned on a news debate show before being shouted down by some uneducated biased cretin who hasn’t looked at the facts, running on ancient programming.
We’re already selling it medicinally to other countries, which is such a ridiculous contradiction.
We need to boost our economy. Our high streets are in poor condition; instead of cheap takeaways and vape shops (which are probably funded by cannabis), how about we legalize it the same way they have in America? Tax it, and that will hopefully boost the economy. Lots of people smoke it regardless, so this will save the police the costs associated with stopping illegal cannabis production in this country and also prevent illegal trafficking of the drugs into this country from places like Thailand and America.
It’s faintly nuts that I’m spending £325 for 50g a month on totally legal medical cannabis while a neighbour’s son just got a caution for a gram. The postman even delivers mine.
It’d be a smaller sector than cannabis but I’d really like to see legalisation of mushrooms getting some traction.
Even if it’s just something like the Netherlands truffle model, psilocybin is a fantastic compound with very few downsides
I think it will be a very long time until we legalise weed , labour , reform and tories wouldn’t do it and the other party’s won’t win elections anyway
They don’t want us looking at tits or consensually choking. What makes you think they’re going to allow us the devils lettuce? I mean THINK of the CHILDREN.
Will this reduce all those cases of spice causing serious harm in the UK?
There is no reasonable argument against legalising, regulating, and taxing cannabis. Even if you think it’s the dangerous devil’s lettuce, you should be in favour of legalisation.
Makes perfect sense to me, Suddenly it can be taxed, less small time dealers on the streets and these same dealers and users have a knowledge and skill that will be sought after by the market
We have such a strange culture when it comes to weed though. Excess and violence is already a staple with alcohol, but for some reason even the chavs on weed don’t chill.
Before tapping into this market we should invite some advisors from Colombia and Bolivia.
Expect it to cannibalize the alcohol market. It will probably result in a slight net drop in economic activity.
Countless people have invested in it here and everywhere else, A Trump endorsing person like Snoop Dogg making not a crazy large investment doesn’t bring anything extra. I feel like he’d harm the image if anything.
Here’s the “magic money tree” politicians have been fantasising about for years
Here’s your new tax pile Rachel. Tax the shit out of it and we’ll end up like Colorado. The residents of the state all had tax rebates because there was prevision in the tax code that caused it to exceed allowed revenues. Residents received hundreds of dollars each just for existing.
Yes. Do it! No brainer. Cannabis is much better for you than alcohol; we would have a far more enlightened society as a result. This actually could be one of the most effective ways of tackling neoliberalism, as people will see straight through the shoddy logic after a couple of vapes.
I doubt it will ever be legalised in this county, the Tories won’t solely because their voters are against it and Labour won’t because they have set themselves up as the Morality Fun Police and can’t bear the thought someone somewhere enjoying themselves. Ive no idea what Reforms stance is and I doubt any other party will get enough traction to make much of a difference. It’s a shame really, I never thought we would get to the point where the US and Germany are more liberal than us on this.
Yes it should be legal and for sale (taxed accordingly)
but then so should all consumer drugs, you can put whatever controls you need around it but prohibition doesn’t work, it increases supply and negligently hands the market over to criminal networks
you could argue this should be illegal or that should be illegal but it doesn’t work people can still get hold of these substances
It’s the easiest win possible, but this Gov is far too ideological for that.
I have no idea what impact legalising weed would have on some rural villages where the only industry is illegally growing weed in houses. I don’t think it would kill it which is probably a good thing because those places are already pretty dire.
We are so far behind the curve on this and it’s such an obvious policy that would immediately generate significant tax revenue with no real downsides compared to what we have now.
Great – let’s get an increasingly unproductive population hooked on smoking weed, that’ll surely help boost economic growth!
Can’t we just do it with Firearms instead and preempt Nigel winning back our hard earned 2nd amendment rights as given the levels of lawlessness in the country and how underfunded the Police are I feel the definitions behind it may actually be appropriate?