......The illegality of drugs also explains the all too many murders, assaults and drive-by shootings which gangs resort to as they seek to maintain their local monopolies.
The idea of cannabis being a regulated substance available, perhaps through Boots, would appal the gangsters.
The moral issue is not so much that of people using potentially harmful substances — that applies as much to alcohol as anything else and no one advocates its prohibition. The issue is one of personal freedom.
How can anyone bray about personal freedom while declaring that one drug, alcohol, cannot be banned, but cannabis must? It is fundamental to personal liberty that we are free to go to hell in a handcart if we choose and in our own way.
Deny that, and your logic drives you to say that the Government should lay down laws and penalties about, for example, those who choose the path to obesity. That has become a peril to health at least comparable to the smoking of either tobacco or cannabis.
And think of this: cannabis could be taxed if its sale was legalised and regulated. How much that would yield is impossible to say. It does not alter the argument in principle, but it would excite the interest of the Treasury.
Making cannabis legal would save police time, police priorities, the courts’ time and it would raise money. It is a commonsense and ‘liberal’ solution. All the same, don’t hold your breath.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1326030/How-legalising-drugs-deal-local-baron.html#comments#ixzz14FKRGQG3
The idea of cannabis being a regulated substance available, perhaps through Boots, would appal the gangsters.
The moral issue is not so much that of people using potentially harmful substances — that applies as much to alcohol as anything else and no one advocates its prohibition. The issue is one of personal freedom.
How can anyone bray about personal freedom while declaring that one drug, alcohol, cannot be banned, but cannabis must? It is fundamental to personal liberty that we are free to go to hell in a handcart if we choose and in our own way.
Deny that, and your logic drives you to say that the Government should lay down laws and penalties about, for example, those who choose the path to obesity. That has become a peril to health at least comparable to the smoking of either tobacco or cannabis.
And think of this: cannabis could be taxed if its sale was legalised and regulated. How much that would yield is impossible to say. It does not alter the argument in principle, but it would excite the interest of the Treasury.
Making cannabis legal would save police time, police priorities, the courts’ time and it would raise money. It is a commonsense and ‘liberal’ solution. All the same, don’t hold your breath.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1326030/How-legalising-drugs-deal-local-baron.html#comments#ixzz14FKRGQG3
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