Drugs found at Andover home (From Basingstoke Gazette)

Why don't we try taking a completely new approach to cannabis? In Britain, 30% of us use cannabis in our lifetime, three million people use it at least once per month and we consume more than three tonnes every day. The idea that we can prevent people using it is nonsense.

We waste billions every year on police, court and prison resources when a large proportion of society uses cannabis without any problem at all. In fact, the only real problem with cannabis is that it's illegal.

The risks to health are very small - much, much less than alcohol or tobacco. Professor Terrie Moffitt of the
Institute of Psychiatry said recently that cannabis is "safe for over 18s". If we took responsibility and introduced a tax and regulate system we could protect children far more effectively than we do at present.

We could have a properly regulated supply chain with no criminals involved, no theft of electricity, no human trafficking, no destruction of property and disruption of neighbourhoods. Then there would be some control over this huge market. There would be thousands of new jobs, sales would be from licensed outlets to adults only with guaranteed quality and safety. Then our police could start going after some real wrongdoing instead of trying to fight a crime that exists only because of a misguided government policy.

Also, very importantly, science now proves that cannabis is one of the safest and most effective medicines for a wide range of conditions. While the government promotes the lie that "there is no medicinal value in cannabis", it has granted an unlawful monopoly to GW Pharmaceuticals to grow 20 tonnes a year for, you guessed it, medicine!

Cannabis Law Reform (CLEAR) published independent research last year that shows a cannabis tax and regulate policy would provide a boost to the UK economy of up to £9.3 billion pa as well as reducing all health and social harms.

The only thing that keeps the present absurd status quo in place is weak politicians corrupted by Big Booze and the GW Pharma monopoly.

Strange how a corrupt governemtn can take money from big pharmaceutical firms to stop cannabis being legalised...they call it lobbying!

They employed a scientist called Prof. David Nutt & he downgraded the dangers of cannabis & put alcohol higher to a class A drug, purely on the proof of harm...so they sacked him!!!!

It's pure corruption on the legal front, do NOT consent to thier lies, educate the people about the truth & watch cannabis become legal.

As a foot note, cannabis is not UNLAWFUL, only ILLEGAL, there is a world of difference between the 2, many dont understand...so search it out & educate yourselves.

Cannabis is an amazing medicine and is really good for the body in so many different ways, if you are responsible for your own mind and perception of reality and know how important it is to align with truth (just look at how hitler mind controlled all those germans or how Darren Brown can manipulate your perception of reality). The truth is on this one guys is that it is a wonderful plant that grows to help your life be more healthy, pain free and magnificent.
If you just go onto Wikipedia you will read how cannabis is anti-inflammatory, an anxiolytic, increases appetetite (great for sufferers of HIV and aids and anorexia), pro apoptosis (preventing cancer and helping remove it), there are 85 unique cannabinoids in the cannabis plant that all have a unique effect on the endocannabinoid system, all helping the functioning of many different physiological processes from eye sight and hearing to homeostatis and immunity (nervous and blood).
The echinacea plant has 25 different cannabinoids in it, and it is regularly used all over the world as a herbal remedy.
Because of this thousand if not million year old innate relationship that the cannabis plant has with us it has come as a shock to humanity to find itself in disconnection with it during this current phase of its experience.
There will always be demand for it because there will always be people who appreciate and respect the magnificence of this plant and how greatly it can help support our daily lives.

Professor Terrie Moffitt, from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, said:

“I'm fairly confident that cannabis is safe for over-18 brains, but risky for under-18 brains.”


Prohibition causes more harm and danger than cannabis ever could. Its safer than alcohol tobacco and pharmaceutical drugs yet its illegal. Why? It being illegal has nothing to do with scientific evidence, expert advice or our health and safety. But has a lot to do with Personal prejudice, Cowardly/corrupt politicians, Vested interest, the power of alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceutical companies and the money made from prohibition. This failing policy effects everyone negatively, cannabis user or not. Children find cannabis easier to get than alcohol and tobacco, dealers are violent and contaminate flower buds with hard drugs and growers/smokers are the ones who get jailed and arrested as boss man counts the profit. Prohibition isnt just ineffective, it has now created the worst case scenario. Offering no protection and disallowing regulation gifting this huge market to criminals. Why are people happy with criminals controlling cannabis as opposed to inform qualified professionals? Prevention and therapy isnt just cheaper than prohibition, its much more effective. Portugal decriminalized drugs and 10 years later we see a 50% drop in drug use. Holland tolerates cannabis being sold and regulated by coffeeshops to adults only and they have the lowest hard drug use in Europe. When a country legally regulates cannabis, the use goes down and age of first use goes up. Prohibition doesn't work, never has never will, in fact it does the opposite of what its meant to do.

Some very good points raised here. My concerns are about the amount of young people buying any old substance off the streets that is readily available to them everywhere now. Some of these substances are killing people but cannabis would never kill anyone in itself. If these young people could get the cannabis that is so short in supply due to its popularity they would hardly be buying the nasty stuff. People grow it themselves so they don’t have to sit for hours in dealers houses funding their expensive lifestyles. It’s the same as everything else in this country, the system is messed up because of the money the government needs to fund other countries.

Babs Stanley wrote:
Why don't we try taking a completely new approach to cannabis? In Britain, 30% of us use cannabis in our lifetime, three million people use it at least once per month and we consume more than three tonnes every day. The idea that we can prevent people using it is nonsense.

We waste billions every year on police, court and prison resources when a large proportion of society uses cannabis without any problem at all. In fact, the only real problem with cannabis is that it's illegal.

The risks to health are very small - much, much less than alcohol or tobacco. Professor Terrie Moffitt of the
Institute of Psychiatry said recently that cannabis is "safe for over 18s". If we took responsibility and introduced a tax and regulate system we could protect children far more effectively than we do at present.

We could have a properly regulated supply chain with no criminals involved, no theft of electricity, no human trafficking, no destruction of property and disruption of neighbourhoods. Then there would be some control over this huge market. There would be thousands of new jobs, sales would be from licensed outlets to adults only with guaranteed quality and safety. Then our police could start going after some real wrongdoing instead of trying to fight a crime that exists only because of a misguided government policy.

Also, very importantly, science now proves that cannabis is one of the safest and most effective medicines for a wide range of conditions. While the government promotes the lie that "there is no medicinal value in cannabis", it has granted an unlawful monopoly to GW Pharmaceuticals to grow 20 tonnes a year for, you guessed it, medicine!

Cannabis Law Reform (CLEAR) published independent research last year that shows a cannabis tax and regulate policy would provide a boost to the UK economy of up to £9.3 billion pa as well as reducing all health and social harms.

The only thing that keeps the present absurd status quo in place is weak politicians corrupted by Big Booze and the GW Pharma monopoly.

You can lead a horse to water.....Our government will never wake up to the facts, they would rather us all starve in poverty than get in on the act and have the balls to take leadership and get that money into our economy. It's a no brainer really, people are buying stuff now illegaly anyway and they always will. People openly use it all the time, ive passed several people with strange fags in their mouths in the steet many times. Dead simple stupity to allow such a serious amount of revenue to not be collected. No wonder the rest of the world think we are a bunch of idiots.