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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except, they will sell it for cheaper by avoiding the taxes and regulation (see California) or sell other hard drugs like in Amsterdam.

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u/Square-Competition48 26d ago

Okay but they’d switch to other hard drugs if we somehow eliminated it so should we not try and eliminate it?

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u/BookmarksBrother 26d ago

What I am saying is, if you want to make these guys to stop from dealing, legalizing it wont work. They will still deal for cheaper or deal other stuff.

If you want to legalize pot then fine, but do not pretend thats gonna sort out criminality, gov budget black holes and prison spaces.

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u/Zealousideal_Day5001 26d ago

this bullshit is why it's still illegal. The fact that there are people like you out there arguing against its legalisation is why the government has not yet legalised it.

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u/BookmarksBrother 26d ago edited 26d ago

lol, its illegal in 99.9% of the globe and in the 0.1% of the globe where it was made legal other issues have popped up.

But I am sure nobody thought about this simple solution.

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u/Zealousideal_Day5001 26d ago edited 26d ago

You do know that the reason it's illegal across so much of the world is due to US imperialism and the UN cajoling everyone along to join the US? It's not like a load of boffins got together and decided on the best public policy.

The US only got so het up about it because of lobbying from the alcohol and timber industry, which saw cannabis and hemp as a threat. It really wasn't because our intellectual superiors knew what was best for us.

It's like saying "wow 99% of oil is traded in the US dollar, this must mean that trading oil in Euros is a terrible idea."

oh and it's not 99% of the world anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map-of-world-cannabis-laws.svg