Comments on: Legalise it all http://twentymajor.net/2008/07/02/legalise-it-all/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:43:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Ass-per-usual http://twentymajor.net/2008/07/02/legalise-it-all/#comment-42210 Ass-per-usual Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:36:31 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=1509#comment-42210 I can't praise this article enough Twenty, it's a great thing that your blog is reaching people. My very late take on the issues raised: Gateway drug? Bullshit. If you legalise grass, you will also take away the "relationship" between common smokers and scumbags trying to push harder drugs onto people. Revenue. State run coffee shops will generate huge sums which can be invested straight back into our economy whilst creating x amount of jobs at the same time. Mental illness? There is absolutely ZERO evidence that cannabis creates any mental illnesses. They might enhance those already present in certain individuals, but surely it is up to the person themself (or their friends/family)to seek out further help/quit smoking. Average everyday people are not naive children that can't manage their own lives. Crime. It will cut crime..simple as. The pushers wont have any direct contact with casual smokers anymore due to them buying their smoke legally. Part of the income derived from the legal sale of grass can be put into fighting real crime. Sadly, ..politicians are either absolute squares who dont understand the pleasure of lighting up a spliff or older arseholes who believe cannabis is lucifer reincarnated in plantform. Great piece 20. Lets hope some people with influence are reading it and have a eureka moment. LEGALISE! I can’t praise this article enough Twenty, it’s a great thing that your blog is reaching people.

My very late take on the issues raised:

Gateway drug? Bullshit. If you legalise grass, you will also take away the “relationship” between common smokers and scumbags trying to push harder drugs onto people.

Revenue. State run coffee shops will generate huge sums which can be invested straight back into our economy whilst creating x amount of jobs at the same time.

Mental illness? There is absolutely ZERO evidence that cannabis creates any mental illnesses. They might enhance those already present in certain individuals, but surely it is up to the person themself (or their friends/family)to seek out further help/quit smoking. Average everyday people are not naive children that can’t manage their own lives.

Crime. It will cut crime..simple as. The pushers wont have any direct contact with casual smokers anymore due to them buying their smoke legally. Part of the income derived from the legal sale of grass can be put into fighting real crime.

Sadly, ..politicians are either absolute squares who dont understand the pleasure of lighting up a spliff or older arseholes who believe cannabis is lucifer reincarnated in plantform.

Great piece 20. Lets hope some people with influence are reading it and have a eureka moment.

LEGALISE!

]]> By: Twenty Major http://twentymajor.net/2008/07/02/legalise-it-all/#comment-40991 Twenty Major Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:33:41 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=1509#comment-40991 Shame on you Shame on you

]]> By: Jombo http://twentymajor.net/2008/07/02/legalise-it-all/#comment-40990 Jombo Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:29:56 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=1509#comment-40990 Can't we just ban alcohol too? Can’t we just ban alcohol too?

]]> By: Desmond Traynor http://twentymajor.net/2008/07/02/legalise-it-all/#comment-40865 Desmond Traynor Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:54:30 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=1509#comment-40865 Sorry for length, at least for those readers with attention deficit disorder. Would have linked it, except it isn't up on my website yet. Will do so in future (if there is a future). The version published in Magill is also pruned, with not as much detail as what was posted here. The 'Joint' Committee Report is available online, http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=6005&CatID=78&StartDate=01 January 2006&OrderAscending=0, if anyone is bothered with the drivel. And no, Conan, I’m not Charlie Haughey’s deceased accountant, nor any relation to him. I'm not even, indeed, a Fianna Fail supporter. That’s an old and tired joke at this stage, although it was the bane of my social life for about five years. Sorry for length, at least for those readers with attention deficit disorder. Would have linked it, except it isn’t up on my website yet. Will do so in future (if there is a future). The version published in Magill is also pruned, with not as much detail as what was posted here.

The ‘Joint’ Committee Report is available online, http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=6005&CatID=78&StartDate=01 January 2006&OrderAscending=0, if anyone is bothered with the drivel.

And no, Conan, I’m not Charlie Haughey’s deceased accountant, nor any relation to him. I’m not even, indeed, a Fianna Fail supporter. That’s an old and tired joke at this stage, although it was the bane of my social life for about five years.

]]> By: daniel http://twentymajor.net/2008/07/02/legalise-it-all/#comment-40810 daniel Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:47:18 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=1509#comment-40810 The only reason why hemp is made illegal was because it would flourish the cotton industry. And benefit some papermills. Hemp is the fastest growing plant and it's usefulness is endless. Oil, paper, clothes, ropes, petrol, you name it, hemp can do it. It grows practically anywhere. So in fact it can be dirt cheap to produce. But making it dirt cheap means you can't make that much profit. Besides, clothes made out of hemp are practically indestructible. The first Levi's where made of hemp. Think the average cotton Levi's doesn't even last longer than a year. Read this: http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/hemp/hemp_media6.shtml for why hemp and thus marijuana was banned. The only reason why hemp is made illegal was because it would flourish the cotton industry. And benefit some papermills. Hemp is the fastest growing plant and it’s usefulness is endless. Oil, paper, clothes, ropes, petrol, you name it, hemp can do it. It grows practically anywhere. So in fact it can be dirt cheap to produce. But making it dirt cheap means you can’t make that much profit. Besides, clothes made out of hemp are practically indestructible. The first Levi’s where made of hemp. Think the average cotton Levi’s doesn’t even last longer than a year.
Read this: http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/hemp/hemp_media6.shtml for why hemp and thus marijuana was banned.

]]> By: The Alster http://twentymajor.net/2008/07/02/legalise-it-all/#comment-40805 The Alster Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:18:23 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=1509#comment-40805 Have none of you maniacs seen "Reefer Madness"? It also makes you impotent-the bloke across the road from me burns weed like an incinerator and I can't get a pan handle any more.... Have none of you maniacs seen “Reefer Madness”?
It also makes you impotent-the bloke across the road from me burns weed like an incinerator and I can’t get a pan handle any more….

]]> By: lazlo panaflex jnr http://twentymajor.net/2008/07/02/legalise-it-all/#comment-40804 lazlo panaflex jnr Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:33:30 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=1509#comment-40804 360 for an ounce of green in this part of the country though.can't imagine having the bobs to pay for it if they taxed them like fags. anyone know how many plants you can grow before you become a dealer as opposed to a user? 360 for an ounce of green in this part of the country though.can’t imagine having the bobs to pay for it if they taxed them like fags.
anyone know how many plants you can grow before you become a dealer as opposed to a user?

]]> By: Twenty Major http://twentymajor.net/2008/07/02/legalise-it-all/#comment-40773 Twenty Major Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:25:47 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=1509#comment-40773 heh heh

]]> By: Conan Drumm http://twentymajor.net/2008/07/02/legalise-it-all/#comment-40769 Conan Drumm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:22:03 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=1509#comment-40769 "the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport and Tourism, ‘What Everyone should know about Cannabis’," never was a joint committee more aptly named. “the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport and Tourism, ‘What Everyone should know about Cannabis’,”

never was a joint committee more aptly named.

]]> By: Conan Drumm http://twentymajor.net/2008/07/02/legalise-it-all/#comment-40768 Conan Drumm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:20:49 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=1509#comment-40768 Is that the same guy who carried/filled Charlie Haughey's wallet with vulgar money and ran an offshore "banking" business at Cement Roadstone? Is that the same guy who carried/filled Charlie Haughey’s wallet with vulgar money and ran an offshore “banking” business at Cement Roadstone?

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