But surely
legalisation, regulation and government warnings a la cigarette packets would be a better route to controlling the super high grade stuff?

Driving things underground doesn't kill them off. Look at prohibition in America. Only teaching abstinence in sex education. The 'war on drugs' Britain and America have spent billions pursuing over the last few years that hasn't made a blind bit of difference to the availability of any illegal substance. None of these have exactly been a roaring success!

I fully appreciate that some people are affected mentally by smoking weed, but it has been fairly conclusively proven that there is no causal link, although it can be a trigger for those already predisposed towards certain types of mentalness.

As pointed out above, alcohol causes far more problems. And alcohol is much more likely to make your problems impact on others, whereas our right to destroy our own minds if we want to is something that we could legitimately claim a right to.

[not belittling your opinions or anything, I'm just trying to start another interesting debate!]
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Mon 26 Jan 2009, 10:51, Reply)