Very good Stephen, and I agree should be legalised! Alcohol is far more dangerous.

I agree completely, it’s a complete waste of resources, just because it’s legalised doesn’t mean people are automatically going to start using, legalise, legalise legalise!

Where did I hear that little ditty before…. hmmm….

Legalize it and use the added tax revenue and resources freed up to tackle real problems in society, like heroin for instance you don’t find many stoners mugging or assaulting people do ya?

What way do you spell crap ? ^

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THE AUTHORITIES HAVE, is a header , its the same on all these pages , and the revenue was also involved , i think the Gardai were the second responder’s in this case anyway , or so it seems . hence the authorities ??

There’s nothing in cannabis that makes the user want to try other drugs, so calling it a gateway drug is simply wrong. If there’s any gatewaty effect, it’s because the supplier (drug dealer) has other drugs to offer, if cannabis was legalised this wouldn’t be an issue. And nobody is saying that it’s “harmless”, but leaving it in the hands of criminals won’t make it any safer, again if it was legalised & regulated it would be a lot safer to use.

Tobacco and cannabis smoke actually have similar properties chemically, but their pharmacological activities differ greatly. Components of cannabis smoke minimize some carcinogenic pathways whereas tobacco smoke enhances some – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1277837/

Cannabis can also be vaporized, making it much safer to use, as there’s no combustion and therefore no carcinogens, if it was legalised we could educate users in the safer methods of consumption.

Anyone with a bit of sense or experience will know that cannabis is not a “gateway drug”, the effects of cannabis is of many things but mainly physical relaxation and introspective thinking, I use cannabis to work, it helps me to organise my creativity and tap into something I can’t when sober. It works differently for everyone but you sure as hell don’t feel like taking coke or heroin when you’re stoned! The only time I feel like taking harder drugs is after a few drinks.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/05/study-the-gateway-drug-is-alcohol-not-marijuana/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/19/david-nutt-alcohol-cannabis-cafes

Now benny, give your thoughts on alcohol..
You seem to be a clever chap.

We’ll agree to disagree in this 1 benny :) have a good day sir.

Wow. I really can’t make my mind up whether your a troll or not but it sounds like you really believe what your saying… And your entitled to your opinion.
But!!!
I am a grown adult, I should be allowed to put into my body what I like without you or anybody else telling me otherwise,as long as i don’t harm anybody…. Who cares… I can walk into a off licence and buy 3 bottles of vodka, if I drank those bottles straight down, there is a good chance I won’t wake up. There has never ever been a case where someone has overdosed and died from cannabis….. So the facts are there, you just seem to getting them all from the same website.. What harm do I do to you by sitting at home smoking a joint? I don’t drink much but I do like to have a smoke from time to time, worst case scenario is 1 eat a whole bag of hunky dorys. Whoa scary stuff. Apparently eating too many crisps will give you cancer too so should we ban them aswell??
Surely Garda resources could be used in a much more effective way.
How’s about a bit of progressive thinking from our government, this is a cash cow that they don’t want to milk.
It would also curb this insane drinking culture that we have. It’s very rare that you will hear of somebody being arrested for being stoned & disorderly…