i saw a pretty convincing article a couple of years ago that looked at the average purity of street heroin and the quantities used by addicts
a quick bit of maths worked out that £100 of street H could be produced by the NHS for under £2
i’m not suggesting that we get everyone hooked on smack
just that if your bike cost you, say, £250 and it get’s nicked by a wag head, and sold in a hurry for £25, then that’s 10 bikes, with a value of £2500, plus the cost of police time, plus the increase in insurance premiums for a buzz worth less than £20
plus, decriminalisation eliminates the power of gun toting heroin smugglers, whch can only be a good thing (unless you’re a gun toting heroin smuggler)
i think the criminalisation of weed has led to the skunk phenomenon, which can be said to be linked to increased mental health problems… if weed was legal worldwide, we’d all still most likely be smoking a bit of african bush as producers wouldn’t be desperately trying to find the most concentrated and commercially viable form… after all, if I may use alcohol as a comparison (as a socially acceptable drug) beer is legal, and we aren’t constantly searching out new and ever more potent forms of beer… we know the difference between Carlsberg and Stolichnaya… it clearly tells us what each contain on the container
we the freed, free the weed, indeed
that reminds me of a free the weed march i went on in about ’97 in London where we’d listened to many good speakers (editor of The Independant newspaper, Jack Straw’s son, Howard Marks was a crap speaker tho:neutral: ) and late in the afternoon, beneath the Trafalgar Square lions, who were smoking 8 foot spliffs :crazy_fre , some old cockney started laying into smokers, twatting them with his rolled up :surprised copy of The Sun and shouting “you drunken layabouts”
I think he missed the point, slightly
