When cannabis smoking becomes legal, should it be permitted in......

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01. Pubs
02. Restaurants
03. Hospital grounds
04. Homes for the mentally ill
05. Drivers of vehicles
06. Cars with children in them
07. Shopping precincts
08. Football grounds
09. Other sports grounds
10. Schools for the over 16s
11. Prisons
12. Cinemas
13. Theatres
14. Concert venues
15. Offices and similar workplaces
16. Police stations
17. Parliament
18. The City of London
19. Broadcasting studios including when "on air"
20. Homes for the elderly
21. Hotels
22. Bed and breakfast
23. Caravans - rented
24. Private homes with children in them
25. People undertaking life saving operations
26. Gas engineers
27. Firemen/firewomen
28. GPs
29. Lawyers
30. Aeroplanes
31. Trains
32. Underground trains
33. Ships
34. People with a serious criminal record - domestic violence, rape etc
35. Emission Zones
36. Schizophrenic people
37. All EU institutions in Britain
38. The English Defence League
39. Terrorists in favour of a particular version of Muslim
40. William Hague's house and the Green Party?

……..and should everyone who has been convicted for a cannabis related crime be compensated financially by the taxpayer and given an official pardon?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/29/legalise-cannabis-in-uk-institute-for-economic-affairs

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

How about nowhere?

Medical cannabis oil is a different matter.

[oddoneout]

There are already laws about where smoking is or is not permitted. If your question is in fact about whether people 'under the influence' will be undertaking vital, or critical roles, that could have in impact on other people if judgement is impaired then my answer would be 'who knows?' That is a situation which arises each day somewhere, regardless of legality or otherwise - lack of sleep, illness, medication for instance, even before you get onto alcohol, and then illegal substances.

[Lat-Literal]

How about nowhere?

Medical cannabis oil is a different matter.

Well, I must say that I find that very reassuring.

I perceive you as a centrist.

There are already laws about where smoking is or is not permitted. If your question is in fact about whether people 'under the influence' will be undertaking vital, or critical roles, that could have in impact on other people if judgement is impaired then my answer would be 'who knows?' That is a situation which arises each day somewhere, regardless of legality or otherwise - lack of sleep, illness, medication for instance, even before you get onto alcohol, and then illegal substances.

Are you suggesting that the existing laws on smoking would automatically apply to cannabis?

I would have thought that entirely new ones would need to be brought in to address legalisation.

If so, there are a lot of things to consider.

At least 40.

[jayne lee wilson]

I just wish you could buy it, in white, cellophane-wrapped boxes with pretty pictures on the front and clearly indicated strength/content ratings, over the counter at Boots. I might drink a bit less then.

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I just wish you could buy it, in white, cellophane-wrapped boxes with pretty pictures on the front and clearly indicated strength/content ratings, over the counter at Boots. I might drink a bit less then.

That's a viewpoint which is fair enough. I am of a psychological tendency such that I wouldn't have reached 30 with sanity intact - or even be alive now - had it been legal in the 1980s. The mind is a bit druggy without any drugs in a myriad of ways, for better and often for worse. People who know me and like me would readily testify to that and mean it in good faith.

The sole reason why I never took it up was that it was illegal.

[Beef Oven!]

I just wish you could buy it, in white, cellophane-wrapped boxes with pretty pictures on the front and clearly indicated strength/content ratings, over the counter at Boots. I might drink a bit less then.

Could be the way to drastically reduce drinking.

But I can't go back to any form of smoking - would need to imbibe it otherwise. Is there any fun placing it in one's armpit and waiting?

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Could be the way to drastically reduce drinking.

But I can't go back to any form of smoking - would need to imbibe it otherwise. Is there any fun placing it in one's armpit and waiting?

As with a thermometer the armpit is probably safer. I used to bite through the glass when young, literally not laterally, and be rushed up to the doctors in case I had mercury poisoning. I never had - but I had to eat a lot of cotton wool sandwiches just in case. If you are ever faced with someone in that situation, cotton wool in bread is the answer but also ring the GP.

Tbh, I did take it once in 1997 when unusually I was alone at Glastonbury and met some blokes from Shepton Mallet with a contraption on a hill at sunrise. It was the mud year when the stage sank. I hadn't met my mates so I was leaving quickly anyway but I got panicky and took the first train out. At Devizes station, someone said "hey mate, you've got blood all over your face" and I almost had a seizure before running into the Gents. It turned out to be tomato sauce. I'd had a burger at a van which started selling breakfast early on the way out. Actually when I think about it, I did do a rendition of "Fire and Rain" on a small stage before that burger in a tent when six people there were asleep. I was totally out of control.

And I just think cannabis equals "there is no audience for it".

[oddoneout]

Could be the way to drastically reduce drinking.

But I can't go back to any form of smoking - would need to imbibe it otherwise. Is there any fun placing it in one's armpit and waiting?

Hash brownies?

[vinteuil]

Tbh, I did take it once in 1997 when unusually I was alone at Glastonbury and met some blokes from Shepton Mallet with a contraption on a hill at sunrise. It was the mud year when the stage sank. I hadn't met my mates so I was leaving quickly anyway but I got panicky and took the first train out. At Devizes station, someone said "hey mate, you've got blood all over your face" and I almost had a seizure before running into the Gents. It turned out to be tomato sauce. I'd had a burger at a van which had started selling breakfast early on the way out. Actually when I think about it, I did do a rendition of "Fire and Rain" on a small stage before that burger in a tent when six people in there were asleep. I was totally out of control.

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... you must have been on quite a trip. The station in Devizes closed in 1966.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devizes_railway_station

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[Lat-Literal]

... you must have been on quite a trip. The station in Devizes closed in 1966.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devizes_railway_station

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That just can't be right. I'm sure that was the second time I took the train to/from Devizes to/from Castle Cary - '93 and '97 - after that I found you didn't have to go round the houses. That is so weird, genuinely....was it Swindon? No it wasn't. It was Devizes. I'm sure of it so that is really, really weird to me. However, I have no idea what they had in that container - perhaps it was something else - and while environmentally romantic - watery sunrise etc - the land was like Mad Max 3. The others went. I wasn't going to go because of the news but I changed my mind at the last minute and fished out my ticket from a flower basket from a mate's home in Streatham. It had been left for me there just in case. I was there for 24 hours. I know I started at army surplus by necessity and then the Wannadies and I didn't even have a tent so I just got merry to keep out the gloom and ended up on that hill around 3am.

[vinteuil]

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... I'm a Devizes lad, and can tell you the line was ripped up in 1966.


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... I'm a Devizes lad, and can tell you the line was ripped up in 1966.


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That is so strange. I could believe that in my confusion it was Swindon rather than Devizes in '97 on the way back but when I first went in '93 by train - joining other people there - I feel so certain that it was in Devizes that I changed trains and it was immediately obvious it was a very long way round. I am going to have to think about this carefully. It doesn't tally.

[Richard Tarleton]

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... I'm a Devizes lad


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Never mind cannabis.....

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... I'm a Devizes lad, and can tell you the line was ripped up in 1966.


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V, I've been for a walk to think this through. Unless I am very obviously attempting humour, in which case you would know, I don't make things up even where they are with some humourous intent. Everything I said about the events in '97 was true. They were a dodgy crowd but I had no one else to speak to in the early hours, it was cold and they were half friendly. It was close to the stones. I am sort of willing to issue a gambit here. Let us say that the later incident on the way back was in fact in Swindon station rather than at Devizes - it's quite possible. Would you then be willing to consider that four years earlier when I first went there out of Paddington that perhaps the end of the first part of that journey was Temple Meads but the ticket said via Devizes? Because I am damned sure Devizes featured somewhere and it was a hell of an elongated route so perhaps it was to Bristol first in '93?

Anyhow, whatever it was, I was absolutely word perfect on that James Taylor song halfway down the hill and still am although ordinarily I wouldn't step onto even a small stage. And to be frank, Swindon is more of the place where someone would say "hey mate, you've got blood on your face" when it was actually tomato sauce that was easily wiped off with a hanky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx5HuAPd6RM