Legalising cannabis could generate £1.5 billion for UK economy, new study finds

But our leaders are too busy nutting themselves silly going after disabled people.

Too many people on the side that they’d rather see someone arrested for it because of how it smells.

There are other intangible savings, such as not giving money to criminal scratters, and reducing normal people’s interaction with criminal scratters

Didn’t you watch the Ask Frank ads about how cannabis will give you instant brain damage and make you rape your GF? Cannabis is clearly and incredibly dangerous drug and should be banned.

But if you want to go out binge drinking in pub Friday to Sunday that’s perfectly healthy /s

Legalise it and chuck the money generated into our defence budget. Done. 👍

I used to be against it. I mean, I dont smoke it myself and never have. But when I realised how much money it could generate through tax, and how much money itd save the police dealing with dealers and growers, its a no brainer.

Let’s do it, sell it under alcohol licencing laws.

There’s a licenced weed cafe in my area, you can buy pre rolled, edibles, hot chocolate, you can take it away or do in there, hasn’t had any negative effect to the area

yes, but then the police won’t be able to use the “smell of drugs” as an excuse to search someone or their car

Alcohol related incidents take up half of **all** police time, and a third of **all** accident and emergency time.

Every state in America that legalised cannabis saw a drop of 15%-25% use in alcohol. Rates varied across states, but the minimum was 15%.

Legalising cannabis would take a huge strain off the police and the NHS.

Even if we only saw a 5% drop in alcohol use, that’s still a massive amount of resources we could spend elsewhere.

This is why I’m for legalising cannabis.

I just want some places where me and my friends can legally get stoned and have some fun in social contexts without looking over our shoulder, feeling like a junkie, or worrying about who we will offend.

The maddest thing about drug criminalisation that seems to rarely get mentioned is the principle of another adult telling me what I can and can’t do with my own body. I pay my taxes, I contribute to society, I’m not harming anyone. Why the fuck is slightly altering how you feel and maybe see the world, a decision someone else has to make for me?

I’m for it, simply because it’s (disputably) less harmful than alcohol, could bring in a substantial revenue stream and because a legal and regulated industry will produce a far safer product than the black market.

Synthetic products like THC-filled vape fluids (way more potent than a blunt) or even compounds like Spice are far more harmful than what we could get if Keir Starmer didn’t have a raging hard-on for drug enforcement.

Also to the people complaining about the small, am I the only one who cannot really smell cannabis unless someone is literally smoking a joint next to me?

But the smells! Think about the SMELLS! /s

God forbid anyone brain damaged enough to use the smell argument gets a job, leaves mummy’s house and drives down a motorway. Plenty of bad smells for them there.

In all my time smoking it, not a single person has ever walked up to my face and complained. So that says to me that they’re either the minority, or they’re just cowards. I’m going to be generous and go with the former.

I’ll continue to smoke it, and they can continue to seethe about smells internally, while their taxes are wasted and costs rise. Not like they can do anything to prevent it anyway. Dealer is going to deal, smokers is going to smoke, drinker is going to drink etc. There’s genuinely not a single thing they can do, not to mention the countless ways people are consuming it without smell. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

How’s the effort to reduce it going? War on drugs working well so far?