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Mostly_Harmless
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Lib Dems: legalise medicinal cannabis and possession of drugs for personal use [UK]
#21850586 - 06/24/15 01:49 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/23/lib-dems-legalise-medicinal-cannabis-and-possession-of-drugs-for-personal-use
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‘Locking up drug users is not the answer,’ says Lord Paddick, who has tabled amendments to government’s controversial psychoactive substances bill
 A man helps his cancer-stricken father smoke cannabis for the first time. In 2010 Israel’s health ministry began distributing cannabis for pain relief to 1,800 patients with various health conditions.
Liberal Democrat peers have called on the government to decriminalise the possession of drugs for personal use and legalise medical cannabis.
Brian Paddick, the party’s home affairs spokesman in the Lords and a former London mayoral candidate, has tabled a series of amendments to the government’s psychoactive substances bill, including decriminalisation of the possession of all drugs for personal use and the legalisation of medicinal use of cannabis when it is prescribed by a doctor.
The psychoactive substances bill, which will be debated in the Lords on Tuesday, seeks to outlaw legal highs, which have been blamed for a number of deaths in recent years. But the draft legislation has been criticised for being badly drafted and containing too broad a definition of psychoactive substances.
Lord Paddick, who was deputy assistant commissioner for the Metropolitan police before his retirement, also called for the government to delay the new laws until a full independent, evidence-based review of existing laws had been carried out.
Paddick said that, instead of tackling the threat of these new drugs, the proposed legislation was likely to make things worse.
“When I was a police officer, I realised that locking up drug users is simply not the answer,” he said. “We have to learn the lessons of why our current approach is failing before we make the same mistakes with new psychoactive substances as we have done with other illegal drugs.”
Decriminalising personal possession would free up police resources, ensure addicts got treatment and social users received the education they needed to keep them safe, said Paddick.
Arguing for the legalisation of cannabis use for medical purposes, he said: “There can be absolutely no justification for seriously ill people, prescribed medicine by a doctor, to be forced to become drug smugglers.
“We aren’t talking about fake prescriptions for those wishing to get high. We are talking about properly prescribed doses of pain relief for those with serious conditions.”
Despite losing 48 of their 56 MPs at the last election, leaving them as the fourth biggest party in the Commons with only eight MPs, the Lib Dems have 101 members in the Lords, making up 93% of their parliamentary party.
The Conservative party has 228 members, Labour has 212 and there are 178 crossbenchers, meaning the Lib Dems have significant potential to unite with others to amend government legislation.
Liberalising drugs laws has always been a key Lib Dem policy, with the party’s two leadership candidates, Tim Farron and Norman Lamb, both backing calls for the UK to legalise, regulate and tax the sale of cannabis.
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Konyap

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Re: Lib Dems: legalise medicinal cannabis and possession of drugs for personal use [UK] [Re: Mostly_Harmless]
#21850754 - 06/24/15 02:32 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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One word: Hash
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Visionary Tools



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Re: Lib Dems: legalise medicinal cannabis and possession of drugs for personal use [UK] [Re: Konyap]
#21854354 - 06/25/15 09:41 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Fuck off lib dems you're a joke.
That said, there is a bill passing through the house of lords at the moment to decriminalise cannabis.
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Konyap

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Re: Lib Dems: legalise medicinal cannabis and possession of drugs for personal use [UK] [Re: Visionary Tools]
#21855414 - 06/25/15 02:09 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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house of lords
more like house of ASSLORDS!!
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mustangbob3
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Re: Lib Dems: legalise medicinal cannabis and possession of drugs for personal use [UK] [Re: Konyap]
#21862559 - 06/27/15 03:06 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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yeah...
now the government says we should all be smoking hash rather than the weed.
the thing is...
most in uk did smoke hash until the governments war on drugs made importing hash more and more difficult.
they came down harder on hash importers and stopped/slowed it so hundreds of home grow ops appeared to fill the void in the market.
hence we now grow and mainly smoke weed now!!
not out of choice alot of the time but out of necessity as the government emptied the streets of hash.
the problem they moan about is a problem they have created!! the war on drugs removed the hash not us!
the governments actions gave us no option but to turn to weed to which they now are making out to be the devil incarnate lol!
if they never meddled with our system then hash would still be everywhere here and there would be less phychosis as they put it lol
imagine how many lifes may have been ruined(as they put it) by weed lol just because there is no option of hash! the government has theses numbers on their hands!
many families have been put under financial pressure too as the price per gram is higher for weed and it dont go as far making the habit more expensive and hurting the people at the bottom of society! the very people the government claims to be trying to save from abject poverty, by making the draconian laws in the first place!
then think of the morrocan familys that relied on the income from hash to feed and pay for their families education!
it has messed with lots of lifes- and what for? nothing
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Edited by mustangbob3 (06/27/15 03:12 AM)
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Re: Lib Dems: legalise medicinal cannabis and possession of drugs for personal use [UK] [Re: mustangbob3]
#21864590 - 06/27/15 02:36 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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yeah that's right you guys mixed that hash with your joints rather then insnuffulating and spiking it like drug hungry americans
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