55% of Brits support cannabis reform, latest YouGov poll shows
55% of Brits support cannabis reform, latest YouGov poll shows
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55% of Brits support cannabis reform, latest YouGov poll shows
55% of Brits support cannabis reform, latest YouGov poll shows
Posted by RandomUsername1604
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And watch the government ignore it because the main voting demographic still holds outdated views on cannabis.
Wasn’t one of the MPs who opposed it last year the wife of one of the only people able to legally grow it in the UK?
Where are all my botanist homies to genetically create a non-smelling cannabis leaf? I walk down the street and the whiff of weed smoke I get is nauseating.
It will never happen, despite that it would be an incredible tax revenue and lower a collosal burden on the prison systems – it wouldn’t shift favour whatsoever
Not to mention, it’s nowhere near the top 10 things the electorate care about at all, why stir the pot
Considering we are the biggest exporter of cannabis seeds, I’d say it’s time for the shriveled old husks to get with the times and stop being hypocrites.
Fully legalise and then hook peter hitchens up to the national grid and all our energy problems are solved
I’m sure for most of us legalisation is a no-brainer and the obvious benefits of removing supply from criminals and taxation would see it pay for itself both fiscally and socially.
Reeves could use the tax revenue arguement to get it legalized
55% is nowhere a big enough majority to make such a big change
They may well do, and to me, it makes total sense.
They will just clamp down harder on it. We are a country stuck in the past and going backwards.
And so nothing will change because a few old crusties end the argument at ‘drugs bad, ok’ while they sip on their whisky / coffee.
However, what the government WILL do is continue to make enormous profits on it, selling it abroad.
Fucking hypocrites the lot of them.
It will happen eventually, but that’s not enough of a percentage to make the change. I suspect it will need to get towards the seventies for a party to seriously propose it.
Shame because the tax revenue would be sizeable.
Come on Brits, this needs to happen. Think of the sweet sweet tax 😅
Legalise it. Tax it. We need the revenue; growth, right?
I generally don’t care, but it seems like a less harmful addiction than alcohol
Legalise weed … tax it and fund the NHS. No brainer
Tax on weed would defiantly help with more funds for the government. Which means they will do absolutely everything to avoid it
It’s already basically trivial to get a medical cannabis prescription in this country. It is de facto legalised. But like everything else in this country lawmakers are more focused on the optics than bringing the law in line with reality.
generate tax revenue, reduce wasted police time and money, reduce wasted court/legal time and money, improve employment prospects, reduce crime created by need created by previously reduced employment prospects, reduce prison spend and crowding, improve public health, reduce alcoholism. Weed is a poison that makes people paranoid and lazy, it is also a medicine that heals and reduces the burden on the heart. I will not take this country seriously until it is legalised. science is science. it’s one thing for the odd US state and South American nation to do it, I guess you could argue the politics is sufficiently different enough, but when Germany is doing it surely the penny should drop. David Cameron ffs was advocating this when he chaired the select committee for health in the 90s. the HoL ffs has advocated it numerous times since the 90s. Class B for a drug almost entirely unconnected to hospitalisation and non violent crime? one that probably actively reduces the risk of domestic violence? joke. justice for David Nutt.
British sense of what is “proper” will stop this. Same voting issues as Brexit.
I’m reasonably sure that the majority of the UK population are not to be trusted. Reform is on the rise. We voted for Brexit.
It’s a shame they don’t move to do it. Tax revenue, small businesses, employment, prison cost, etc, not really much if a down side than the status quo. People are going to us it anyway.
Of course, just looking at the comments here shows why it’s a way off yet. People are quite dumb.
Brits are less likely to stigmatise cocaine use than weed use, in my experience, but it’s de facto legal anyway in a lot of places. It’s just shit quality. Legalisation would just help create high quality, safe products, and it would stop children being able to buy deadly vapes full of spice on Snapchat — with which they one-shot their cerebellum.
Legalise and tax it to cigarette levels. Nice money earner.
No brainer. Popular amongst voters, significant increase to the economy and helps tackle criminal gangs… but we’ve got a cop as PM so forget about it
Whether your for it or not, you can’t deny it would be an economic boom!
I certainly support that and shrooms being legal.
People openly smoke it now anyways as do I and no one really cares
I hate the smell of it but still would legalise it I suppose
Ofcourse people agree, that has been the case for a while now. It would also boost the economy which it sorely needs
Seems a no brainer to me. I mean, weed isn’t magic, it’s a recreational substance, but it’s really not significantly worse than alcohol by any reasonable metric.
Lots of people smoke recreationally, and some do therapeutically (which is something alcohol won’t really ever do!).
It’s a complete waste of everyone’s time trying to enforce illegal weed, as the people smoking it aren’t doing any real harm, and the people dealing it… well, they’ll mostly just go away if it’s legal.
And instead you get something that’s got regulation over quality and safety, tax revenue, and easier engagement with ‘support’ if something goes wrong. (E.g. as happens with alcohol – not everyone ‘has a problem’ but those that do are given support to fix it).
I’m on the fence over anything ‘harder’ – I can see arguments both ways. But I’ve never seen a real reason why someone who chooses to ‘self medicate’ shouldn’t be permitted to do so, and the only substances I’m more wary about are the ones that might require considerably more ‘informed consent’ and understanding of the risks.
But people taking even the worst stuff out there don’t _need_ to be A Problem, when you could support them and help them fix whatever it was in their life that made them resort to the stuff in the first place.
Although I’ll concede legalising does potentially increase supply and results in diversion, so there’s a balance to strike there. But for weed? Nah. It’s below the threshold for ‘acceptable’ levels of harm we already agree are OK for distribution of alcohol or nicotine.
Doesn’t matter what the UK wants, Starmer doesn’t. I heard him speak on this before, banging on about being a Lawyer and how it ruins lives and he will never do it. He was extremely stubborn on it and was the first time I realised he might be a bad choice.
There was just no budging with him, he wouldn’t even discuss any evidence, just constantly “I prosecuted blah blah” “Families are torn apart by gangs blah blah” despite the fact that this would actually alleviate those issues.
TLDR: The country has zero say. Everyone in the entire country could want it but so long as _he_ doesn’t, it ain’t happening.
The other 45% don’t want to lose out on revenue from sales lol
It’s about time to legalise. This would take a massive chunk of illegal drug gang’s money.
The general population?
Ohohohoho, we, the politicians, listen to the alcohol and tobacco lobbies.
Just like literally everything else, the boomers will see to it that younger generations have absolutely nothing to look forward to…
The smell that many hate will greatly decrease once weed is legal – like it has in my adopted home of Canada.
Weed vapes are way more convenient and way less stinky.
You’ll barely notice them in comparison. Plus then there’s edibles, oils, drinks and a heap of other formats people increasingly use.
Unfortunately starmer opposes it. His time in the legal profession has shown him that it should be decriminalised, but ALSO that it can be used to unjustly attack ethnic minorities and poor people.
So he won’t legalise it.