r/unitedkingdom • u/RandomUsername1604 • 26d ago

Police officers say cannabis is effectively ‘decriminalised’ in the UK .

https://www.leafie.co.uk/news/police-cannabis-decriminalised-survey/
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u/MondeyMondey 26d ago

Good! It’s not a real crime like murder or whatever, mind your business!

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u/TwentyCharactersShor 26d ago

Because drugs dealers and growers are well known to be law abiding citizens that break no other laws such as trafficking, abduction or murder. Those Mexican cartels are just misunderstood

Obviously, everyone on reddit gets their weed from an ethically sourced eco-hippy.

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u/RealNameJohn_ 26d ago

So you agree substance prohibition doesn’t work and gets you the worst of both worlds then.

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u/Exact-Put-6961 26d ago

Actually, in terms of reducing use, across a population, it does work. Not as well as it might, but it works.

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u/RealNameJohn_ 20d ago

I mean…surely the question remains, are the harms associated with cannabis use worse for society than the harms inflicted by keeping it illegal?

IE trafficking, gang land beatings, murders, crack cocaine & heroin dealing ect that are all carried out directly with the funding obtained from black market cannabis sales? I’m gonna go with no. That’s not to mention all the other heinous crimes organised crime groups are responsible for.

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u/Exact-Put-6961 20d ago

So all that is caused by cannabis being illegal? Dont be ridiculous.