Cannabis

Why Legalise Cannabis?

For many people, cannabis represents the top of a slippery slope into hard drug use. This is a rather disturbing myth. Recent studies have shown that cannabis is a relatively safe drug, and that the real gateway into hard drug use is POVERTY.

The present "War" on drugs results mainly in prosecutions for possession of cannabis of people who are in most cases otherwise law abiding citizens.

WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!

The money that's wasted in criminalising these good people could be reallocated to the health service and schools.

Put simply, because cannabis is illegal in Britain, it can only be had from illicit drug dealers. The primary interest of these dealers is profit. The dealers will make more money if they can mover their customers onto other drugs - especially addictive substances such as heroin.

Legalising cannabis takes users - many of them young people - out of the drug dealers' reach into a regulated, licenced environment where cannabis products free of IMPURITIES can be purchased safely. The model would be based on the cannabis cafes in Holland.

In Britain the average age of heroin addicts is 24. In Holland where cannabis is available in special cafes, the average age of heroin addicts is 40.

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