Should cannabis be reclassified?

Answer 1

they should sell the stuff in the shops! Half of the country is smoking the stuff anyway, might as well tax it!

Answer 2

Scientifically Cannabis is an hallucinogenic drug as it impacts on the ability of the user to understand the world arround them, altering the brains ability to read sensory input. The higher the THC level in the cannabis then the more the hallucinogenic effect. This is why people often say that music sounds better or colours seem brighter when using cannabis. 'Skunk' - pedigree varieties of cannabis contain significantly more THC than other. older non-cultivated varieties. Skunk is commonly used in the UK today and tends to be produced in the UK rather than imported.

Sadly at the moment in the UK cannabis is a 'growing' problem because it has shifted from being a drug that is used recreationally by a few, to a drug that is habitually used by more young people than ever before.

Habitual use of cannabis is undesirable because of its effects on the user and in particular its impact on those who are susceptible to anxiety, mental illness and schizophrenia especially. The younger the person is at first use then the greater the likelihood that this person will suffer from a mental illness later on in their youth or early teens.

Sadly there has been a sharp rise in young people being admitted to mental health units across the UK due to habitual use of cannabis.

Recreational use of cannabis may not be particularly harmful but regular use from morning to night is a dabgerous game to play. Should cannabis be re-classified? What would that acheive? There is enough confusion already about the legal situation with many young people wrongly thinking that it is now legal for personal use.

the costs involved in reclassification are huge - i beleive the government made a complete mess of reclassifying cannabis to Class C and two wrongs do not make a right.

Answer 3

It's less dangerous than alcohol, so either reclassify it or make alcohol illegal. How many times do you year about some thug beating a man to death after having a smoke? Never! How many times do you hear about someone smoking themselves to an early grave as opposed to drinking themselves to an early grave? Never! How many times do you hear about people being cannabis dependent? Never!

In my opinion, the only reason it remains illegal is because people can grow it themselves, meaning no tax for the government (less if they substitute it for alcohol)

Another point i wish to make, the local police in this neck of the woods are currently cracking down on cannabis. The only problem is that is that due to the lack of cannabis now available many people (although not me) are now turning to the very dangerous and addictive cocaine.

Well done Kent police

Answer 4

If alcohol, sugar, coffee and nicotine where discovered today, they would all be illegal as they are so addictive. Cannabis has been proven to have no addictive qualities, and there have been no recorded fatalies from smoking weed, as opposed to huge death figures from tobacco and alcohol related illnesses.
Personally I have never seen anyone get arrgresive or abusive from weed, yet Ive seen people hospitalised or arrested because alcohol makes certain types aggresive.
Yet Cannabis will never be legalised due the huge amount of work and effort required to make it a taxable drug.
Im not condoning drug use, mearly pointing out some facts.

Answer 5

It is a class "C" now. What reclassification would you like? To be made more available or not? I would not like to see it decriminalised as the importation and supply would still be under criminal control. If it were legalised the importation and supply would be regulated and quality control would be implimented to guarantee a pure product. There is so much crud being sold legally these day that have far worse long term effects than weed, (McDonalds,Coca Cola, Sunny Delight and Stella Actatwat) It is laughable to say that something that is genetically designed by nature specifically for us is banned and sh*te like plastic cheese burgers and reconsituted chips and beans are officially promoted in schools to ruin our childrens health. Critical Hippo's the lot of them.

Answer 6

I think it should stay as it is - as a society we have no idea of the long term effects of Cannibis. All I know is that I have 3 people in my family who have regularly smoked cannibis for years and ALL three of them have sunk deep down into their own world of contemplation.

Everyone of them has psychological problems, everyone of them worries endlessly about everything, everyone of them are on the far edge if normal society.

I am not sure that weed is a terrible drug, but I am certain that we do not understand the effects of prolonged exposure to it has on people mentally.

Answer 7

hashish might want to be thoroughly de-categorized and extra elements might want to be directed in course of those who produce and promote heroin and different risky substances. there has been a very much more advantageous volume of raids upon hashish growers and so on yet,there has on the different hand been a marked shrink in the raids and arrests of heroin carriers. As stated alcohol and positively "criminal" prescription drugs that were approved by technique of the authorities reason extra deaths than hashish because there have not been any recorded deaths by using hashish use. It also ought to be delivered to the interest of those waiting to sentence hashish clientele that it is amazingly uncommon when you smoke to flow out and rob,mug,homicide and attack persons to get a fix. hashish is a organic product and folk might want to be ready to augment it of their personal gardens without worry of prosecution. this is been suggested by technique of one or 2 those who it motives psychological health issues properly,so does smoking fags,ingesting,eating particular meals and all way of issues and those human beings probable have issues besides. i imagine the actuality of the count number is that no one truly is familiar with the outcomes that hashish has no count number what number checks they carry out because anybody is diverse. So shall we no longer difficulty about hashish concentration on getting heroin off the streets and get the country taken care of out.

Answer 8

reclassified as what? From what. A drug, to a functioning ok recreation smokable?

Answer 9

No, because it is in a class of it's own. Depending on the user, it can be a stimulant, depressant, narcotic, or a hallucinogen. Though personally i have never hallucinated when i smoked weed, some people claim to have.

Answer 10

personally. i think that it should be a taxable drug like tobacco. if it was more readily available i would expect that we would pay less in the way of tax duty, because they would get it from taxing the weed.

lol! or maybe thats just the weed talking!