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This is a normal post Oh, is this how the law works now?
Spoiler: it isn't
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 16:30, Reply)
This is a normal post The old classic online petition.
Are there any that have actually had any impact?
 (I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 16:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Well at 100,000 they pretty much have to discuss it in parliament.
And with America falling over itself to legalise it there's a hope.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 16:37, Reply)
This is a normal post They've been discussing it for yonks though.
Whilst I do believe some form of legalisation will be in place at some point, I doubt the ability of online petitions to do anything in regards to changing law. In fact I doubt their ability to do anything.
 (I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 16:41, Reply)
This is a normal post There's some stuff coming up in the UN that's been brought forward a year or two on it.
The US and other Americas have pretty much forced their hand.

Just hoping for some common sense here, not expecting it to happen tomorrow though.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 16:50, Reply)
This is a normal post I hope so because it's fucking stupid to criminalise it, IMO.

(I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 17:05, Reply)
This is a normal post
Ahh the good ole USA, making it so that you have to be a millionare to even apply for the license to own a shop selling the stuff.
Keeping all the money raised from weed firmly in the 1%'s pocket.
 (Oswald Mosley (((triggering))) right wing cunts on, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 17:47, Reply)
This is a normal post Law only works with the consent of the populace.
Once a critical mass of people decide a law should not be followed it stops working.

A petition is just a visual indicator on how close to that point we are.

Also
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/24/durham-decriminalised-cannabis-california-colorado-legalisation
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 16:39, Reply)
This is a normal post You know the most popular subject for these petitions? Bringing back the death penalty.
How's that gone, sweetcheeks?
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 16:44, Reply)
This is a normal post One thing does not equate to the other.

(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 16:47, Reply)
This is a normal post I think the theory
is that loads of people smoke cannabis without causing trouble therefore criminalising cannabis use is counterproductive and pointless.

For the "bring back the death penalty" petitions to have the same weight you would need a significant population of otherwise productive members of society who spent their weekends forming lynch mobs and reducing the suspected burglar population.

I'm not saying asking for the return of hanging won't work but you have to put in the ground work first.
 (tacpprm has a mmrpcat, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 16:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Obviously
your experience with regular cannabis users differs from mine, which is fair enough. I'm afraid to say the ones I employed (usually very briefly) were totally stereotypical. When they turned up for work, that is.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 16:59, Reply)
This is a normal post I didn't say that was my theory.
Wanna join my lynch mob?
 (tacpprm has a mmrpcat, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 17:01, Reply)
This is a normal post I know both kinds.
Hard working clever people who enjoy a reefer. And then there's my mate "Shaun".....
 (I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 17:04, Reply)
This is a normal post I admit my
experience is wide open to question, as for all I know half my town are pot users but don't show it. But I don't like the 'harmless' argument, as I think we probably know some one who it has harmed very much indeed, and sometimes their families.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 17:28, Reply)
This is a normal post In my experience a lot of people of all backgrounds and skills are users.
Those who don't have a problem seem less inclined to share their habit with others, maybe due to the stigma attached with use.
 (I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 18:28, Reply)
This is a normal post Well,
it does impare skills. That is kind of the point of it as I understand, so I think the stigma is justified. I don't care if my local pub DJ smokes it, but the pilot of a 747 is a different matter, if I wanted to fly on it.
Or if I was on trial for a murder I didn't commit, and my defence counsel and the Judge both enjoyed an 'out of hours' recreational spliff, as did half the Jury. I'd prefer they didn't, to be honest. As I think would most people. And if most people agree, it isn't stigma.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 19:29, Reply)
This is a normal post They couldn't have an after hours spliff but could legally drink themselves into oblivion with gin?

(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 19:46, Reply)
This is a normal post
I'd prefer they did neither, wouldn't you? Just because one is legal and one isn't, what does that have to do with my scenario?
I wouldn't want a drunk or a pot head as my defence lawyer. Does the fact that it is legal to be a drunk therefore make being a pot head ok too?
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 19:53, Reply)
This is a normal post No but just as it's possible to drink without being a drunk it's possible to enjoy cannabis and not be a pot head.
That was my experience anyway.

It'll be nice to have the choice without fear of arrest and the problems a criminal record can cause.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 20:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Well, you've hit upon something
I find interesting about the whole debate. Drug users from all walks of life claim it is recreational, just a bit of fun, and yet risk this legal threat that could ruin careers and families from a prosecution. Apparently, this 'bit of relaxation' is worth the risk of a jail term. I don't buy that.
Driving at 100 mph on my local street would be great fun, and I reckon I, and my car, could handle it. But I can't do it. It is illegal. So I don't.
The fact so many people are willing to break the drugs laws on something they could 'take or leave, it's just fun' suggests it is more than that. It is a dependency masking real issues that they ought to address.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 20:25, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't think you can equate doing 100 in a 30 zone with sitting at home with a joint.
If you were in the car with a joint that would be something, but there are already laws about that.
 (I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 21:25, Reply)
This is a normal post Both are breaking the law
Why would you feel justified to do one but not the other? Both are fun. Both are potentionaly life changing to you and others around you.
My only guess is that one is a need, the other a thrill.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 21:50, Reply)
This is a normal post Why? Easy.
Because one has the potential to directly harm others and the other doesn't.

Life changing? Try life ending.
 (I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 22:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Have you been with a mother
too stoned to look after her children? I call that direct harm.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 28 Jul 2015, 0:42, Reply)
This is a normal post Smoking during work is a big no.
Same as drinking or taking any substance. What people do in their own time should be up to them really. I don't see it as an issue
 (I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 19:54, Reply)
This is a normal post Then with all due respect
you haven't met the people I sometimes have. I have never caught anyone smoking or drinking at work. But I've had to let them go because of the state they are in the day after. Their own time impacted on mine. I sound a horrid boss but I'm cuddly really.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 20:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Like I said, I have seen both sides and is generally not black and white
if someone is incapable of doing job whatever the reason then it needs dealt with, for sho
 (I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 20:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Yes you sound like an awful boss.
Purely for that shambolic statement.
 (numero uno, spanishfly's mate, Tue 28 Jul 2015, 0:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Shambolic how?
I let people go because they turned up for work unable to do their job. I don't see that as unfair.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 28 Jul 2015, 0:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Did they tick the box on the application form saying "Yes, I smoke the reefer." ??
If not, how do you know that the guys who you haven't fired don't smoke it?
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 17:50, Reply)
This is a normal post As I have said
my argument isn't watertight. But I have always made it my business to get to know my colleagues and employees as well as possible and comfortable. There might be many, for whom doing it does not affect their work. I'm simply saying there are plenty I has come across where it does.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 27 Jul 2015, 18:01, Reply)
This is a normal post You sound well creepy.

(numero uno, spanishfly's mate, Tue 28 Jul 2015, 0:06, Reply)
This is a normal post Perhaps I am
So don't send me your CV.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 28 Jul 2015, 0:39, Reply)