What is it about our people's relaxed attitude to cannabis use. I do not mean everyone of our people but there is a significant minority who have a very relaxed attitude towards cannabis use. Infact some of us see it as some joke or an idea of fun. I hear stories of black people who go on using this drug into their 60s and what is worse is they smoke it infront of the youths who go on to believe there is nothing wrong with it. Has the time come for us to change our attitudes towards cannabis use. Haven't we got enough black people in mental institutions? It used to be a drug used by rebellious young men nowadays girls as young as 14 are joining in. What are your views on cannabis use?

People who smoke it should be killed instantly.

That is all.

I always wonder why it is ok for a 16 year old to legally buy a cigarette, which is proven without a doubt to have a lethal dose that could eventually kill you, still our politicians find it acceptable to supply alcohol and nicotine to the nation yet criminalise cannabis, which research has shown to offer some benefits for people suffering from various illnesses.

Benefits:

- Taking a hit of marijuana is said to stop a full-blown asthma attack.
- Provides major source of relief to people suffering from Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Backpain, Muscle Spasm.
- Nausea Relief – Seasickness, cancer therapy.
- It is also believed to reduce many types of tumours, both benign and malignant.
- Cannabis also benefits Glaucoma (causes a progressive loss of vision) victims.

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I am allergic to the smell of cannabis; I just have to smell it from a far to get my migraine kicking. However, I still support decriminalising or better yet, legalising cannabis and could then be bought in proper licensed premises to benefit the people who need it for therapeutic reasons...

Also most violence on Saturday nights is caused by binge drinking; if those people had gotten stoned instead of drunk I can assure you there will be a hell of a lot less violence on the weekends.

Imagine trying to buss someone when you can't even lift your leg up or extend your arm... LOL

The link between cannabis and mental health is definitely a topic worth discussing…

this is very true. our attitudes are quite relaxed towards weed. but i think it is partly soicetys fault, and partyly the people we associate with. becoz if sum1 was to say to me" i smoked CANNABIS today" i wud think, jeez, and it wud sound really harsh, but if sum1 was to say "we smoked weed" or we bunned today i wudnt think anyfink of it, so maybe we try and keep it as casual as we can by usin slang words.also it makes u feel betta if umake it sound like no big deal. but either way its got to stop becoz it isnt really helpin anyone and all we're doin is showing lower generations that its alrite.

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Although alcohol is known to be alot more damaging to the body than cannabis. I believe the reason cannabis is alot less acceptable is because it is alot more dangerous to the human mind than alcohol is. By this I mean alot more people develope mental illness through cannabis abuse than alcohol abuse, and the mental illness I have in mind is damage to the brain that stops it carrying out any rational thinking.

Now damage to the mind is alot more painful to those around you than damage to the other parts of the body. From what I have observed it is alot more difficult to care and treat a mentally ill person than physically ill person.

Also once you have a backround of mental illness behind you even after cure it becomes very difficult to get rid of the stigma of being ex-mentally ill. Some would argue that alcoholism is also a mental illness I would agree but the way the society is runned, reformed alcoholics have alot more chances of returning to normal life. What are your chances of returning back to employment after undergoing mental illness compared to those who have been alcoholics.

Anyway I am against the use of any intoxicants whether it be alcohol or drugs unless it is for medical use and under advice of a physician who knows what he is talking about. Nothing is recreational if it ultimately kills you.
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Mantings wrote:

blktypeBut even prescription drugs have been known to kill, if you abuse it.

blktypeI am by no means an advocate of cannabis, but unless it is researched properly,(having said that I am not a fan of 'medical research' either because it usually involves the abuse of animals, but that is another topic!), I cannot have a strong opinon one way or the other.

The people who have said it benefitted them should be listened to, equallythe people whohave ended up in institutions over cannabis.

babygyal_sensical wrote: [quote][b][color=red][font="comic sans ms"][size=2]>THE BIT I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED @BABYGYAL_SENSICAL-THE PEOPLE WE, YOU WHOM EVER ASSOCIATE WITH ARE A PART OF SOCIETY SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT ITS US AS A SOCIETY THAT ARE TO BLAME INCLUDING OURSELVES AS INDIVIDUALS!

lately cannabis is used in science research to cure nevrosis and insomnia.as far as normal use is concerned it has to do with balance most stuff used excessively always got repercussions,cigarettes bring cancer! smoking a joint when u wanna be relaxed and being high all day are two different stuff. i really don't think kids 14 should smokejoints(they shouldn't smoke cigarettes either),smoking joints is not a problem i consider an obsatcle to black people's success as a community.

DE 'ERB IS AS GOOD FI YU AS A WHOLE BOKKLE A VITAMIN!!! blksmoke

yu is a liad rass...berry it good fi yu in some circumstancies not all :P

My brother smoke it heavy an im tun into a blasted idiot. before he started he was an intelligent chap and after....go figure

Hmmm. If you smoke weed/cannabis, you get transformed from being intelligent to being an idiot. TANYA16, your comment as usual should be moved to the under 18's.

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Cannabis cannot be legalised because the government dont know how to control it. They haven't a clue how to regulate or manage it and are confused as to whether to tax theconsumption (ie: an oz of widdz) or to tax the production (ie: the seeds).

If the Netherlands wasn't so impossible to migrate to, I would live there next week and buy a 'learn dutch in a month' CD. They seem to have the best policy when it comes to recreational drugs and heavily regulate the industry while equally making it impossible for people to consider the black market. Weed is so cheap in the cafes that the street vendors cannot compete so you no longer have dodgy specimens which are laced with rat poison or other madness. Everything is organised and regulated and as a result their crime levels are amongst the lowest in Europe.

Thats why its so hard to live there now....the Netherlands is now one of the most crowded countries in the World and has insufficent numbers of housing and employment to go around. If more countries followed the Dutch model then crimewould probably drop equally as a result. Nobody has ever glassed someone or stamped on anybodys head while smoking a henry. On the otherhand alcohol is legal and yet is the biggest contributor to crime in Britain....and all because the alcohol companies have such strong lobbying bodies which help continue the prohibition of cannabis and maintain the protection of alcohol.