The Single Market is one of the core achievements of the European Union. In theory, it should be possible to produce goods and services in one EU country and sell them in any other Member State. In reality, there are still obstacles (particularly in terms of the market for services). But what happens when a product is legal (or, at least, decriminalised) in one Member State but illegal in others? What happens, for example, when the product is cannabis?
Attitudes towards cannabis vary wildly between European legal systems, with some countries categorising it as a Class A substance while others have decriminalised it entirely. Punishments can likewise vary from a slap on the wrists to (potentially) life in prison. As part of our new series of debates on “Ethical Europe”, we will be asking whether drug laws in Europe should be harmonised (not necessarily via the EU, which may be legally impossible), or whether it’s better for each Member State to have different laws.
Despite the Netherlands’ famously liberal drug policy, it is nevertheless technically illegal to grow and sell cannabis (though coffee shops are taxed like any other business). Perhaps for this reason, Dutch cannabis producers have been unable to take other Member States to the European Court of Justice and secure access to their markets. But, despite this, should other Member States follow the Dutch approach to cannabis?
We had a comment sent in by Radoslav, who wants to see the “sustainable growth of a healthy society free of negative drugs”. Which sounds ambitious, but is a drug-free Europe really a possibility? To get a response, we spoke to Carlo Giovanardi, an Italian member of the Senate and leader of the socially conservative wing of the New Centre-Right party.
Giovanardi agreed with Radoslav about the goal, but thought it would take time and effort:
We have to work on the prevention [of drug abuse], on education, on informing individuals: in schools, in the family and in the communities, religious and non-religious. One has to tell young people about the irreversible damages that the use of drugs, especially at a young age, will have on them. Therefore, there is a lot of work to do to, in terms of trying to reduce this phenomenon.
To get another perspective, we also spoke to Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs. Did he think we could ever see a Europe where the use of drugs like cannabis and heroin has been greatly reduced? Is a “drug-free Europe” possible?
Basically not. Quite frankly, the use of cannabis recreationally and for medicinal and other purposes goes back perhaps 10’000 years in human society. So, I would be really surprised to see something like this disappear. It grows like a weed, and is called that by some people. So, I don’t think so.
In terms of heroin and opium, they also go back as long – or even longer – than cannabis. Throughout human society, they were the universal painkiller for many, many years. So, the question is whether some synthetic might substitute for it. But it’s been 200 years since the invention of Morphine, Codeine and all sorts of synthetic opiates, and yet the market for heroin still persists. We see, for example, in the United States that when there’s a crackdown in some area on heroin that is moderately successful, people will switch to pharmaceutical opiates. And then, if there’s a successful crackdown on pharmaceutical opiates, people will switch back to heroin. So, I also don’t think it’s possible to eliminate its use.
I really do think that, ultimately, given the demonstrative failure of prohibition of both these substances, we need to find better ways of living with them and regulating them. And with cannabis I think it will be a model closer to alcohol, with heroin it’s going to be something different. Perhaps along the lines of what we’ve seen in some European countries and Canada.
If drug use cannot be eliminated, is the fight against drugs unwinnable? We had a comment from Ironworker arguing that aggressively waging a “War on Drugs” is a colossal waste of resources. He believes the United States has spent “hundred of billions on wrong solutions with extremely poor results”. Is time for governments to explore more liberal drugs policies as an alternative to prohibition?
What would Senator Carlo Giovanardi say?
Finally, what would Ethan Nadelmann say? How would he respond to Ironworker’s criticism of the US-led drugs war? Is there any indication of how much the “War on Drugs” has actually cost to wage?
Should cannabis be legalised across Europe? Let us know your thoughts and comments in the form below, and we’ll take them to policymakers and experts for their reactions!
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sure!
NO, at least for now…
You know something about the future we dont?
oh yes it should!!
it is impossible to live without it? if yes, then should be legalized. if no, should not be legalized.
@Eu CuMine. Your comment is absurd. It’s possible to live without cucumbers or tomatoes… so, those should not be legalized?
Cucumbers should be banned. I can’t imagine how large the black market in them could get. Would there be cucumber dealers outside school gates?
For some people, yes. Which is why it should be allowed medicinally.
YES!!!!!!!
It would be interesting to talk about it
yes, sure, it would save a lot of talented people from prison who maybe save europe someday.
Drug policy made things even more bad, just think about it, because of this, more dangerous drugs are started to be on the market, than weed.And this is bad for to consumers, for the authorities and actually for everybody.
Good question! My experience is that the Netherlands has a fairly liberal drug policy, and it hasn’t fallen to pieces quite yet. Maybe more countries should start considering that approach?
Yes for many reasons but the first one, to end up whit traffic and violence that is associated with and, at least, this will cut a significant part of the resources that terrorists use to buy guns.
So many creative people are in prison for no reason! So many people are critisized for using a plant that comes from the earth, even though we have 0 days from it and Alcohol and Tobacco are still legal even if the cost so many lifes per year…. LEGALIZE WEED
it all starts with the chewing gum but its legal..
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Is alcohol legal across Europe? If yes, then so should Cannabis be. It is far less dangerous, and legalising it would result in tax revenue and the reduction of crime.
Best comment so far…..
Yes
Nature is legal everywhere
It should be discussed first, without political biases, and then decided.
By the way, I think that the EU should make a statement that it can be legalized or simply that it is not illegal. And let each country’ people decide for their own territory. This constant EU meddling is way too bureaucratic and costly to all tax payers.
Yes.Its not a good measure bit its the one which causes less damages I think
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Apart from your erroneous belief it isn’t the best measure(it is) full legalisation is the only way to make drugs safe and controlled. Myles
http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/first12000/1.htm …well 12 000 years man use it… Should cannabis be legalised across Europe?
Ask the dutch. They have the most experience in Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy9BCFXKgrQ
As a non drugger I’m torn by the two sides of the argument.
There are no two sides of the argument. Theyre the wrong one… Keep it illegal(doesn’t work) and the right one, legalise it and make it safe.
Of course! It should have never been illegal in the first place.
Yes, set it free
I prefer coffee but why not.
its the only way to get HIGH…after all this austerity measures!!!!:)
YESS
sure and we should take into consideration other drugs too but we have allso to learn how to gain maximum benefits and minimum disadvantages from them
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Too many reasons for it, but the bottom line is – if cannabis is legal, we avert deaths that occur from overdose from other more dangerous drugs that cause death from overdose. Cannabis can only cause it if you drive high, but so does alcohol, and alcohol is legal.
I still don,t knoow
Also ibogaine should be legal across Europe, its the best antiaddiction substance known.
Yes it should be re-legalized.
Yes, but only for medical needs, with a special prescription and with strongly permission for drive and usage at work and at schools or others public places …
yeah
Yes
I think that the harm principle should be applied in the case of drugs. According to the harm principle, the only legitimate infringement of liberty of a person by another is self defense. The only purpose for which power can be legitimately used against any member of civilized society against his/her will is to prevent harm done to another individual. A person cannot be legitimately constrained to do or not do anything based on reasons regarding his/her well being or because the said thing would make him/her happier or because it is wise or right for them to act in such way. All of these are good grounds to discuss with that person, to reprove or to implore them to do otherwise, but not to constraint them. By right, on self regarding acts, a person’s independence is absolute, and over their own body and spirit they have ownership.
Based on this, I would say that consumption should not be criminalized, in pretty much the same way as the Italian law in your example seems to see the issue.
@Costin
The Harm Principle?
Hmmm, interesting – Do what thou wilt approach – AKA ANARCHY!
So basically people should be free to burgle, steal cars, vandalise property, get drunk/high and stagger around the streets spewing and as long as they don’t actually hurt anyone in the process nothing can be done about them?…doesn’t sound much like a “civilised society” to me
@Tarquin, @Paul X – Neither of you seem to have read (or understood) the post or the principle.
In simple terms, if you are harming someone else, then the law should intervene… but if you are only harming yourself, then that should not be a matter of law.
So, there would be not “anarchy”, nor would burglary or theft somehow become acceptable by applying the harm principle to drug matters.
@ Tarquin: you misunderstand, it’s not about anarchy, it’s about liberty. No state should regulate in the private affairs of it’s citizens, and causing harm to self is a private affair.
@ Paul: Dan Bontio was spot on, he explained the point quite well. burglary, vandalism and public disturbance are ways to hurt someone. They would fall into the category of other-regarding actions, and thus be subject to law.
As a side note: decriminalizing use of Canabis wouldn’t mean that there shouldn’t be any form of regulation on it’s use. There should be educational campaigns as well as restrictions to publicity, places of sale, a tough licencing process for allowance of sale, standards and so on. There should also be an excise, much in the same way we already have on cigarettes and alcohol. Furthermore, medical conditions deemed to have been caused by use of such legalized substances shouldn’t be covered by any kind of state backed insurance – people would smoke entirely at their own expense and at their own risk. Society shouldn’t be forced to pay for someone’s addiction. This being said, there is still no valid point for the excessive, victorian regulations that are currently in place.
Cannabis use is not a purely ‘private’ affair. There is a public interest element to it. It also harms people other than the user.
No
somehow yes
Cannabis should be legalized in every Europe state; making cannabis illegal not only consumes resources leading to poor results. I’m italian, for years law vs drugs was exceedingly strong (thanks Giovanardi, you idiot) the results are prisons full of little pushers, drugs commerce not diminished by a drop and criminal associations (mafia, camorra, ‘ndrangheta) richer than ever. Legalize is the only way to keep criminals away from the business and take away from them tons of money. Moreover quality would be guaranteed, since now weed is cut with ammonia, rock wool etc…. And please, next time listen to Roberto Saviano, which is spending and risking his life on this topic against mafias, and not to Giovanardi, which is a self-righteous hypocrite which has brain just to keep his ears apart.
re-legalized
Yes
Yes… Plenty of people are doing it. Its prohibition hasn’t curved its use at all… In fact it makes it more popular, since it gives the sense of the “forbidden fruit” which makes it more appealing, especially to youths… Legalise it, regulate it and tax it… Make some profit out of it, instead of allowing criminal gangs to do so…..!
No!!
Scientist along with doctors found 10 diseases r recovered by the cannabis.Also spirit science found 3 benefits .So as medicine it can be used.But not other items like heroine.
Yes, look Colorado and Uruguay
100% yes
The benefits of marijuana as an effective treatment alternative have seen results directly from patients. However, legalizing marijuana offers benefits for not only individual patients and doctors, but for society as a whole. Aside from the medical benefits, legalizing would contribute to reduced crime and protection of civil liberties.
Legalize it, brand it, package it, tax it, sell it in the stores, that is the right way..
Yes. Have I said yes? No? I mean yes.
Yes.
Yes, it have to pay the same tx as alcool.
Why not?
Yes…
The question is a sensible and intelligent as asking if Europe should legalize eating lettuce? Shit . . . eating lettuce is LEGAL. It is time for Europe to stop supporting extreme capitalism and Amerikkkan imperialism. The people of Europe are not being serve by these draconian policies and doctrine.
Good topic this one “Debating Europe”!
What to say about it? Many things!
In my country (Portugal) we have decriminalized the use and consume of cannabis. Sell it is a crime, but consumption isn’t. We have a legal system like Italia have, i.e., the consumers are people who need help and not a criminal charge against them. In Portugal, I think, you can have 19 grams of cannabis with you. If the weed is not divided in small bags, and the use is just for you, nothing will happen to you – just a administrative penalty, which is nothing compare to prison. Our legal system is very flexible and the can prove that we have decrease consume of cannabis. Know, I think, the use of this drug is increasing again, but the reason for that is not the legal system but the economic and social crisis.
Being strictly direct I will say yes, the cannabis should be legalized across the Europe. But this doesn’t mean an absolute right without consequences. Cannabis could be regulated like alcohol. Don’t outlaw the use, but instead regulate the use. We could get more money with the taxes of cannabis. I’m just saying, look to Colorado (USA). We are a space of liberty, the pioneers of human rights in whole world and we need to allow the use, but yes, we need educate too. I agree on that. Education is the best way of promoting responsibility. I don’t need my State or legal system tell me – “We will regulate this matter for you, because you are misinformed, and you are too stupid to know the consequences of cannabis use”. Well, I prefer education over regulation, I prefer information over prohibition, and I prefer a wise choice over a drug fashion.
Regulate the use was good argument.
Informing about the negative sides of narcotics and legalizing them for individuals can go hand in hand. State and society can recommend people not to use cannabis using the proven arguments. At the same time it should me up to a adult individual to him or herself do choose to consume cannabis. So cannabis should be legalized and one benefit would be that the state can get income from the tax revenues and use them for health care or other options. Like in Colorado or Portugal.
Regarding the laws it should be up to the member states to decide since it is closer to the citizens and it is easier to organize campaigns on national level.
please do not listen to Giovanardi, In Italy he has caused a complete mess.
Colorado May Have To Refund As Much As $30 Million In Pot Taxes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/04/colorado-pot-taxes-back-to-residents_n_6612292.html
legalize forever
http://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decriminalized-all-drugs-here-s-what-s-happening
14 Years After Decriminalizing All Drugs, Here’s What Portugal Looks Like
President Obama Thinks More States Will Legalize Marijuana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI3rix0uP0s&feature=youtu.be
An article from Roberto Saviano, a profound knower of southern Italian criminal organizations. http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2015/02/12/news/l_erba_contro_i_narcos-107106399/?ref=fb&fb_ref=Default
interesting italian short movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65lTjSXbz7M&feature=youtu.be
No
Yes it should, If people want to use cannabis they can, if not then dont, its the same as alcohol and a cheeseburger, some people choose to eat or drink it and others dont, Ican someone give me one valid reason as to why cannabis shouldnt be illegal and alochol is perfectly ok to be legal then ? No ? I didnt think so. :) Free the weed
We should learn from the yanks instead re-inventing the wheel. In the early ’80’s, Regan administration and other nut cases right wing “crusaders” came up with the alleged “War on Drugs” campaign and wasted billions of ($) taxpayers money on it. Almost two decades later the result was something like Regan – 0, Drugs – 5. I don’t even want to bring in discussion the death tool. So, if there is something to learn from their not so pleasant “experience”, we should do it. The yanks will eventually (the bill is still put on hold by the Senate) put cannabis on the same level of substances as alcohol rather sooner than later. But to be honest, I don’t really know what other issues might arise or derive from taking cannabis in Europe out of prohibited substances.
The truth is that most of these american presidents used cannabis and there is this hierarchy of we can and you no! that because we give the wrong people to much power!
As a hard and/or soft core scientists, I would have to claim the following points:
1. I used to be called a quarter (1/4) puff by my house mates in college due my appetite for getting high on quantum bits of the active substance on weekends time scalar wise + quantified issues of matter effectual states. It is important that any consumer understands some basic concepts as such as tolerance and prepared physiological state. That is organism supplied with organic acids (juices) prior to initiating carbohydrate/sugar processing. That is the dosage determines time scaled tolerance. Clearly, being a pot head, would not get you through neither working space nor time, except in cases of recreational art idea generator of a kind, a trigger point, but a smashing hammer. It is educational perspective largely lacking ideology within the system due various objective constrains I would not be interested in getting detailed about.
2. Synthetics vs Natural (Organics certified by a legal agency) is clearly lacking both in US and Europe, including dark markets, which boosts prices, and gets in hands of mostly idiots targeting uneducated high school mates. Weed, considered as a light drug, shell not be underestimated by proper authorities, but self proclaimed regulators being a part of a circle without proper consultation and mandatory classes in education about drugs: from coffee and tea to weed, and even pharam pain killer, as well as, other hard core drugs that have been mandated on the market through branches/channel. Especially , in relation to methods for extracting compounds, and the negative effects onto bodily systems of all drugs used by consumers, letting light initiations through carbon alone of the spectra of science.
3. What is a negative drug free society about, – it is about timing and spacing both energy and matter. You cannot have stoned 15 years old children. And that is part of the problem, that mafia must get educated in terms of taxation and pouring that taxation into educational programs, both physically and psychologically effective relative to blind made studies.
4. Mixing drugs is dangerous and must be well understood by abusers, but dealing with consequences after experiencing the terrible night, which is many cases involved with post trauma hate of a particular elicit drug as such as overdosing on pot.
5. There is pot and pot, the range from a champagne to hard liquor weed, as we call it grade, again must be accounted in relevance to proper usage in case of.
6. Sustaining negative drug free communities , in terms of pharmacological issues, has grown towards natural compounds processing, although such issues lie upon marketing + education + 1 (cases)
7. Legislating such policies would not happen via people who are in control of the market due so called war on drug, drugs is not a choice, it is education onto reality of drug interference of the main three domains of life – physical science, psychology , and social aspect, all emerging into scientific realism, but political popular-ism. Clearly, politicians are the first to enter the educational bench , marked by!
8. A none functional network across EU, in terms of regulations/rules that abide by pure science hold no water within lakes full of fish, so that fish actually dies off!
9. Something cannot be legalized prior to its full examining by authorities who have had provided means of conducting a proper statistical data backed through deterministic interference of parameters!
10. Nobody knows how weed works. If someone has told you that is known, that one is clearly speculating with an actual aspects of science and especially biophysics of dimensional perspectives.
we should fisrt focus into educating people about cannabis. Then we takj again1!!1
Right now we have more pressing issues in Europe than cannabis legalization. Could we please focus the debate in things that affect Europeans?
Without a Doubt! Both Cannabis and Hemp! it would create a massive increase in tax revenue and steep drop in crime. (Colorado is proof)
Yes, as alcohol and tobacco are allowed, why not..
It’s only a flower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMM_T_PJ0Rs
Law enforcement against prohibition
http://www.leap.cc/
support don’t punish
http://supportdontpunish.org/
SPECIAL SESSION of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem
http://www.unodc.org/ungass2016/
NO
Sure you probly dont even now what it is or if you do have u tryed it dont juge if u now nothing ;)
It’s necessary an immediate regulation, to don’t let this market in the hands of criminality
Were on it.Our European Civil Initiative will be back.
Thumbs up. Hope it will gain more momentum this time.
What kind of a senseless question is that right now when the EU is almost forced into a war in Ukraine for the mighty US interests :-(?
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No, It is just another stupid idea from the antidemocratic ‘European Union’.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31480234
o lol ..
a europe full of sex and drugs
you guys in brussels you dont deserve the word europe
http://youtu.be/VH5MvZ0m9mw
BBC doc 2014: end the drug war
Inrenational association for cannabis medicines
http://www.cannabis-med.org/?lng=it
http://www.maps.org
American association for medical cannabis research
Non ! Et nos jeunes alors ??? Vous y avez pens ???
What kind of question is this? Why don’t you give work to people? Is the cannabis an alternative to work and happiness? Our future isn’t to be happy because you smoke Cannabis!
I hear Colorado is making so much money out of legalised cannabis sales tax, they actually do not know what to do with it. Considering consumption to be inevitable (and in fact, quite benign health wise), I do prefer such money to be reinvested into society than going as profit to Mafia groups. So the answer is YES.
I’m against all forms smoking and vaping. I’m not being funny, I don’t want to smell marijuana in addition to smelling tobacco and someone’s fruity vape nonsense. You worry about European population getting older but then we would debate about whether or not introduce something that isn’t healthy for you. What is the world coming to?
What i think is that its not a drug its a plant just like tabaco there is millions that die from tabaco and from difrent types of drinks and now tell how many have from canabis yes thats right its still a big fat
zero :D peace out ;)
LEGALIZE IT -_-
Of course! Look at all the benefits legalization has brought to Colorado, USA.
Vive la difference – let the regions rule about this question.
if the depented has not a choice to do of course
The notion of a plant that is result of natural evolution just like any other plant and animal on this planet to be illegal should rise some concerned thoughts of what kind of controlled world we live in…
Regarding canabis in particular, it’s such a versatile plant that we can use to produce thousands of different materials, it was used in the past by many empires, it was banned because it was an economic enemy of big oil and big farma.
Its all starting with the chewing gum and its legal.
tabiki olmal? !sonrada bizde yasal olmal? :))
Legalize It
Yes,tax it and sell it.
yess
Unless theres any valid research which proves that it damages society (theres not) then I think this hypocrisy has to stop and get it legalized. Theres the money.
My friends there is no evvidence that somebody did not find drugs if he wanted. There is black market and we all know it. And what happens when there is big black market?
The nastiest criminals get the most of the money. No taxes enter the budget. And this criminals pay for criminal activities like murder, blackmail and so on. They do not care of their customer is a child, they offer the drugs everywere and no police can stop them. Americans proved it.
So why do people reject the legalization? The reason is the same for which some people reject vacsination, it is the same for some people to reject science.
The reason is IGNORANCE, they prefer to live in their fantacies, where their children will not have access to drugs. But the reality is different. If they realy whant their children to not have access is to regulate it and to tax the hell out of it
I love Europiean bros.
but you still not in EU, right makedonsko momce?
What Senator Carlo Giovanardi expressed above, shows why Europe has lost it’s liberal perspective over the years. Conservatism has crossed around the continent from generation to generation transforming the place that great liberals such as Frederic Bastiat and Ludvig Von Mises were born to a nonfunctional haven (sic). According to his say, every individual that uses pot is a victim. WRONG. The individual freedoms should be protected by European law so that means I should be able to do whatever I want with my Freedom and Europe should provide the environment to protect me. Even if my freedom desires to smoke some pot.
Legalization of marijuana (recreation & medical) should be a hot topic in the Europe. Many states in US have seen the benefits of it. For example, some surveys indicate the decrease of murders in the US – Mexican borders due to the drop of drug trading. Moreover, some other states have extremely high revenues through the taxation on the legal trade of cannabis. Cannabis could be a niche market in Europe.
LEGALIZE IT.
We can’t stand more CONSERVATISM in this continent.
Yes!!
NO WAY put a TOTAL BAN on Tobacco instead
Not an EU matter to waste time with- leave it to individual member countries to decide! Conditional & permit medical doctors to prescribe cannabis- “if useful”. Pharma pills are changing enough people into zombies as well!
Permanent recreational users should have the choice to either register, disclose & be identified as such and not be criminal prosecuted if no offence has been committed- but be excluded or drastically limited in the use of certain government (taxpayer) funded social benefits. Educate the YOUTH towards responsible, healthy & reliable citizenship- not lead them down the path of a possible junkies life.
I wouldn’t like to encounter anybody under the influence of ANY mind altering drug- while driving on roads or meeting in public!
Liberal theories of rights and the practices they justify, fail to respect the importance and tend to undermine responsibilities, virtues of the common interest!
http://fee.org/freeman/detail/liberty-and-responsibility-inseparable-ideals
Yes.
yes
Way in the wrong direction with huge health cost to the public hospitals.
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A classy comment…
Since alohol and tobacco are both legal, I think the appropriate question would be “When cannabis will be legalised across Europe?”
I do not understand why Giovanardi to be regarded as a valid interlocutor , when his right arm , Mr. Serpelloni was fired from his management position at the European institute for health promotion , through which multi-million euro ended up in his pockets . http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/01/31/verona-serpelloni-licenziato-dalla-ulss-fu-uomo-giovanardi-palazzo-chigi/1387197/
I do not understand why Giovanardi to be regarded as a valid interlocutor , when his right arm , Mr. Serpelloni was fired from his management position at the European institute for health promotion , through which multi-million euro ended up in his pockets .
http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/01/31/verona-serpelloni-licenziato-dalla-ulss-fu-uomo-giovanardi-palazzo-chigi/1387197/
Guess it could bring us illusion of the freedom in EU. But since there are so much other limitations that make EU candidate for providing grid of free access in creativity, free access to education no matter on nationality,/familly budget/age group/religious group/region but only on determination, needs in the one’s profession or personal growth plan, public mobility where people are meeting in open space iwithout fear against each other, free access to green resources, free access to alternative health care methods grid, equalizing the prices of energy and democratisaion of access to energy grids, …so now focus on canabis as …seems like let us turn to less critical problems so that we can neglect needed grids and infrastructure challenges.
mafia will never let this happen so just cut it off and dont spend money on thugs.i got sick of this bull****
No! We don’t need it.
Of course we dont need it. We want it, though. Just like chocolate or alcohol.
Samila Veras europeus reunidos, fofos
Nu. It is a drug.
caffeine is a drug, alcohol is a drug, nicotine is a drug and they are all legal so your point is invalid. do some research then come to your own educated opinion
Paracetamol is a drug but take 10 of them fuxkers and its your last headache,ppl are dying everyday from pharmaceuticals but nobodys gives a shit about that
but every should legalize cannabis European society is changing and the states can have economic benefits with the legalization of cannabis Holland has a Democratic model where and praised and admired by European citizens is the very symbol of modern democracy in europe
No it would be a disaster maybe for people with medical conditions I’d make an exception
Yes. Alcohol is more dangerous, but we must take control of abuse and addiction (as with any substance)
Ya ligalizar a erva!!! Sempre ja a muito Ja devia de estar legalizada!!! Mesmo
European Citizens’ Initiative:
Weed like to talk
https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/REQ-ECI-2013-000023/public/
European Citizens’ Initiative:
Weed like to talk https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/REQ-ECI-2013-000023/public/?lang=en
Everything you wanted to know about medical marijuana, but were too afraid to ask
http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2015/02/everything-you-wanted-know-about-medical-marijuana-were-too-afraid-ask?rss=1
Cannabis and Medicine: A New Frontier in Therapeutics
https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2015/webprogram/Session9659.html
Cannabis and Medicine: A New Frontier in Therapeutics https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2015/webprogram/Session9659.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2015/02/everything-you-wanted-know-about-medical-marijuana-were-too-afraid-ask?rss=1
Yes.
i tknk we have some probles to exist with drug people i mean all wars and conflicts takes a walk from muslims and drug mafies Szalom
:)
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:)
Yes do tax it.
No.
For the EU-politics it seems to become necessary ;)
It should be legalized and taxed. They could bring in strict laws to ensure the safety of users with special ID cards that need to be scanned with every purchase. Therefore people could be limited to how much they purchase. They could also require a visit and specific tests to a doctor or psychologist to confirm that the drug isn’t having a negative effect on the person.
The jobs and tax created from it would help Europe’s economy.
Doctors cost paid by the user of course
If you want apathy, go ahead. I think we need a return to sobriety, and do not favor any legalization. We need reforms in our economy and jobs, not drugs.
Who is WE…….you don’t speak for me mate!!
“We need to return to sobriety” – Human society has never been sober.
You cannot reform one area of a society and not another. Either you have a society of freedom or you do not. Economics always flourish in times of economic freedom, creativity and life satisfaction always flourish in times of social freedom. People generally wish to meet their needs, it’s in restrictive times they seek the shelter of intoxication
WE STILL WAITH THAT DAY TO COME…I MEAN WHAT EUROPE EXEPCT ? TO BE LEGALIZED IN ALL OVER USA ??? IN MY COUNTRY ALMOST AT EVERY STEP YOU SEE SOMEONE SMOKING …DOESN’T MATTER IF HE OR SHE HAVE 20 YEARS OLD OR 50 YEARS OLD , THEY SMOKE , THEY FEEL GOOD THEY KNOW IS NOT LIKE ALCOHOOL WICH IS TOTALLY FREE….
According to Romanian Law :
Law No. 143/2000 on combating illicit drug trafficking and consumption.
Art . 4
Cultivation, production , manufacture , experimenting, extracting, processing, purchase or possession of drugs for personal use , without right , is punished with imprisonment from 2 to 5 years.
The government ought to war against the sins . Its weakness is the spread of drugs. The European Union will be stronger when the citizens are healthy and working. The money can be taken also now if the judge reacts without any corruption.
Just like a good little economic soldier
what I think is that Masters in Bussiness and Administration (MBA’s) should be forbiden… there is a lot of people adicted to the neo-liberal doctrine and the individualism and we see it is much dangerous for public health thant marihauana itself… look at how many people have died waiting to public hospitatls to attend them because some Bussines-people have taken the control of them.
Yes,because we need it against the drug’s.weed isn’t drug,is the nature.We secure money as country,we will have less people to do drug’s,less people at prison’s and a lot of choise’s to make are world better.LEGALISE IT!
The poppy Is also nature……
Controlling access, age and quality,
instead of financing a global corruption
pyramid for the tax-free Mafia monopoly!
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendition_aircraft#N987SA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America(airline)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gunrunner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
Stop pharmacological fascism right now:
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The simple possession and use of any substance, legal or illegal is a victimless crime. The only damage done is to legislation. All substances should be legal to possess and use because there is no applicable moral or ethical reason to prevent that. Individual states can minimise the damage drugs have the potential to do by taking control of supply. Demand for substances will always exist and the selective legalisation of things like nicotine, alcohol, caffeine and theobromine is a tacit admission of that.
Carlo Giovanardi is nothing more than a fascist. He conflates use with addiction, and favours sanctioning users:
“Cocaine, heroin, and cannabis consumers should only be sanctioned administratively, for example by withdrawing their driving license, firearm license or their passport.”
How does that help? Removing criminal sanctions and turning them into other forms of stigma only perpetuates the damage caused by prohibition. What about the majority of drug users who are neither addicted, nor are negatively affected by what they use? I use cannabis daily and still manage to run my own company exporting specialist software development services around the world, own my own house outright and will be able to retire before I’m 50 if I continue at my current level. I’ve never been in trouble with the law and other than my habit which is a victimless crime, I’m a model citizen. Who is he to tell me what I can and cannot do with my own mind and body?
Bang on mate
I think you mention to say “Victimless Act” but that’s not quite true.
Who pays when you end up at the emergency due to an overdose?
Who pays when I end up at A&E because of an overdose? That’s a slightly disingenuous question as
a) I pay in advance because I pay taxes and my company pays taxes in the UK
and
b) I won’t end up at A&E because of an overdose. I medicate with cannabis and as hard as I’ve tried in the last 20-odd years to OD on the stuff, I haven’t ever managed it. Probably because you can’t. The only way cannabis itself will ever take me to A&E is if I drop an exceedingly large amount of it on my foot.
Here’s a question to your question: Who pays when all the victims of alcohol poisoning, delirium tremens, alcohol-induced violence, alcohol-facilitated sexual assault, liver cirrhosis, oesophogeal cancer and alcohol-induced dementia turn up at the hospital?
NO LEGALIZATION! END THE PROHIBITION OF CANNABIS NOW or pharmaceutical corporations will screw people over once again!
Yes of couse anything else would be silly. Think of all the people it could save.
So let me get this straight…..
I engage in a lawful active in one country, only to come back to my own country weeks later, then subjected to a piss test which turns up positive for Cannabus (the effects of the drug long since gone) to find out I’m loosing my job, home, family, possessions, finance…..for something I consumed lawfully in another country weeks before?
What the fuks wrong with this picture…..???
No
Ethan Nadelmann got a bunch of good points there. Cannabis should be legalized, taxed and regulated in europe not only to combat the black market and drug trafficing, but also to offer safe and controlled products which by tax will boost the shivering economy like it does in the US and Colorado. Cannabis simply can’t be eradicated since people not only like to consume it recreationally, the medicinal value of the plant is potentially gigantic. It is wrong to punish people for self-medication and recreational use, the laws is more harmful than the drug itself. Cannabis is by far a safe drug, especially when compared to most other common drugs like alcohol. But there is some questions that need to be adressed. Like what age restriction should be best, information campaigns based on harmreduction and responsible use, not myths, lies or scare-tactics like the Swedish model of zero-tolerance. Taxed cannabis could also help finance rehabilitation programs and other harmreduction initiatives as well as education, new jobs, you name it. And then I haven’t even started talking about the huge market of hemp based products. A big YES to legalized cannabis in europe. The time is right.
yes it should be its causing more harm if its not
Under prohibition cannabis is easily accessible to anyone of any age who wants it. Over 80% of high school seniors have reported that cannabis is “easy to get” for the last 30 years. Would you rather thugs and criminals, who also push hard drugs, supply the 20 millions pounds of cannabis traded yearly in the U.S., or legitimate businessmen who can be easily monitored, actually check I.D., pay taxes, and follow other regulations?
Voters must realize that:
1) Cannabis has been unjustly demonized and is less harmful than alcohol.
2) Cannabis prohibition has little effect on the rates of problematic usage.
3) Prohibition causes many harms at great cost.
A vote for cannabis legalization is not to condone its use, it is to condemn a costly prohibition that causes more harm than it prevents. After 75 years of cannabis prohibition it is time to re-legalize this popular substance for adult usage as well.
Let’s end this futile attempt to eradicate a popular substance objectively less harmful than alcohol. This prohibition is very costly (money is only a small part of these costs), senseless, unjust, unfounded, harmful, and un-American. Please consider what the following cannabis legalization organizations have to say. Help end this prohibition by joining their mailing lists, signing their petitions and writing your legislators when they call for it.
MPP – The Marijuana Policy Project – http://www.mpp.org/
DPA – Drug Policy Alliance – http://www.drugpolicy.org/
LEAP – Law Enforcement Against Prohibition – http://www.leap.cc/
NORML – National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws – http://norml.org/
Yes
UN DRUG REPORT 2014
“Oh my god! The world wil explode if we allows our children to smoke weed! Devil seed! This could solve so many problems it cannot be the right solution!
We must act in the more mooron way pozzible!”
eheh =)
YES !!!! We could limit the poverty and cut some important funds for the mafia. It is scientific proven that alcohol and cigarettes are at least 16 000 times more dangerous than cannabis. Tell me one case of someone who is dead because of few joints…
the health benefits are enormous yes it should be legalised
Most definitely YES, because:
There are multiple studies that prove the war on drugs has failed.
People are still getting drugs but from unreliable sources such as dealers and have no idea the quality of the drug as well as no age limit on who buys the drugs.
There are so many studies on the benefits of Cannabis that it’s getting quite ridiculous that they’re ignored by the government and people against legalisation.
If it were taxed, not only could the money spent to stop cannabis be used on better things but the tax can go towards healthcare, education etc. Just look at the USA for how much they are getting in tax from it.
Not one recorded death in the history of the drug. Yes it can increase the chance of someone PREdisposed to a mental issue, but without educating people about this the problem is worse off whilst it is illegal.
By treating it as a health issue and not a criminal issue, the 10% who get addicted (people who have addictive personalities as the drug itself is not addictive) are more likely to seek help. By looking at Portugal you can see this has worked and that the number of drug users has decreased.
I could keep going …..
To add, if it were legal, it would have an age limit like alcohol, and we could educate children on why they should’t use it before that age (whilst their brains are still developing etc)
Legalise for medicin and recreation now.
War on drugs is pointless drugs are never going to go away its silly to think that it is. yes cannabis should be legalized
https://tantrikblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/de-samsta-argumenten-mot-cannabislegalisering/
This shouldn’t even be a question!of course it should be legal it should never have been illegal in the first place.the benifits we’d receive from this plant/flower are world/life changing!it truly is a miracle plant but there in lies the problem,the powers that be know exactly how dangerous this plant would be and corporations stand to lose out massively on profits and power!?the greedy fat bastards of this world will do everything in their power to demonise weed so they can continue ramming prescription drugs down your neck,that is what this is all about in my opinion.
Hemp has the power to end world hunger,create building materials,clothing,end deforestation not to mention the medical properties of cannabis!
Money and greed in my opinion is the reason for this and pretty much most of the worlds chaos.
Rant over
YES !
of course should be legalized, regulated and taxed. the prohibition right now is just making organize crime rich and the live of the users miserable. people that want to use will use anyway, but at the risk of not knowing the safety of what they are using,risking a criminal record if you grow your own. young people can access to cannabis easer now than if it were controlled and regulated. An street dealer only would ask you for your money not for your ID. And the USA is not even to stop legalization in his own territory now because their own citizens are realizing now of the benefits of a regulated market instead of the absurdity of the drug laws in many European countries. I personally think if cannabis is not legal already in many countries in Europe is because politicians are coward, they are blind to the scientific evidence that cannabis is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco, or simply they are corrupt and working in benefit of the organize crime or the alcohol and tobacco industries. politicians in Europe are responsible of destroying the lives of many of their citizens with absurd drug policies that does not stop people using drugs and only encourage more potent and dangerous versions of drugs. that is one of the reasons why so many people does not trust politicians anymore. Lets the scientifics and the doctors to decide how drugs should be accessed by society reducing risk and harms and improving benefits, that is their expertise and their job. for most people that ever have used cannabis, they have received more harm from the legal consequences of criminalizations of cannabis than from the cannabis itself!!
I believe strongly that it should be legalised worldwide! Not only does it help millions of patients with many different, and in a lot of cases, life threatening illnesses, but it has reduced crime by as much as 25% in Colorado since it has been legalised for recreational use, just over a year ago. Not only that, hemp can be used for all sorts of products, from clothing (research Hemp vs Cotton to see just how much it could benefit the planet) to plastic and even oil to run your car! Hemp seeds are also a super food containing a huge amounts of essential fatty acids and omegas. If all of that doesn’t sweeten the deal then how about the huge increase in taxes that Colorado is benefitting from? They have raked in millions over the last year alone! Yes there are people out there who say it has adverse effects on them but so does everything! I know people who cannot drink alcohol because it makes them violent or paranoid. Does that mean we should make it illegal? No, not necessarily. In fact they tried that in the 1920’s and we all know how that turned out! All in all, cannabis could end world hunger, cure a multitude of illnesses (including cancer), reduce crime and increase taxes ten fold… Who could argue with that?
Yes all cannabis species needs to be legalized all over the world to stop this manic mindless egotistic attitudes of prohibition which mostly exists in the mentality of politicians,police,medical profession not to be confused with scientists, journalists television media and any other power fanatical despots who just want control over what they believe are the lesser intelligence because they feel they are above everybody else to which I can say they are not !!!
Need to read article first but goes straight to comment
Absolutely. Obviously regulations will need to be tight, but the tax revenues could definitely help the European Economy. The legalization efforts thus far in America have shown only positive impact.
http://www.thepanjia.com
Legalising will of course mean taxation so I would prefer that it is decriminalised rather than legalised .
yes
regulation and medicalization of all drugs
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/23/8093203/marijuana-is-much-safer-than-alcohol-or-tobacco-according-to-a-new
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Honestly, so many young people already use it despite the fact it’s illegal. By legalizing it, a country could definitely get to control its usage, which, I think, is important.
Ask mental health experts then decide.
I think that Cannabis shouldn’t be just legalized, because it is at least as save as alcohol or tobacco, i think it could help our economy and improve our crime rate as well.
The reaction of the people in regard of introducing new laws is hard to forecast, they can react in a lot of different ways. The only way, to see how the average person would react, is to look to other countries. In the USA the step of legalizing was already done in some states, one is Colorado. Already in the first month the state got 34 million of taxes and the crime rate lost 15%. In 1994 the session potential of Cannabis was classified as very low and that didn’t changed. Alcohol and tobacco take a lot of more fatalities with it and are way more dangerous because they attack a lot of important organs. Cannabis is used more often in medicine right now because it is a good alternative for some pharmacy products because the risks are comparatively low.
At the other side it have to be said, that, also if it’s low, there are dangerous aspects in legalizing this drug. The fact that Cannabis is a lead-in drug was rejected as a mythos by science, but the fact, that Cannabis can lead to serious psychological problems and diseases, is real. Also, excessive using of this drug can lead to big serious respiratory problems as well. So, at the end, the question comes up, if we should issue our world in danger just for those aspects like more money or a more criminality, which just comes up, because of selling Cannabis illegal.
To put it in a nutshell, the problem of legalizing Cannabis as difficult as it is, because of the aspects of ethics, and not because of medical reasons. The questions, that have to be solved, is: What is the prize of issuing some people into real danger? Does that bit of money, the countries gain, worth it?
Yes.
Sure. With regulations of course. it would benefit everyone, but for some reason, old and absurd mentality overrules facts.
Yes.
It would improve the economy so much
yes. We have seen the results of illegal market: hundreds of dead, billions of dollars in the hand of the various types of mafia, no protection for consumers and so on. I really don’t understand what we are still waiting.
yes please
Certainly not. Besides, it’s not EU-business, nation states will decide.
yes
All drugs should be….Actually XTC and others are legal in Ireland !!
yes
Yes sure!
No! each state has to be free to decide on this. As for me, it’s a no.
No!
I would say, yes. It is not addictive (albeit psychological addiction may occur), so it is far less addictive and far less harmful than tobacco and alcohol. Plus, it is good for medical and palliative purposes, where conventional medicine does not exist, or too expensive, or has serious side effects. Also, consumption of cannabis does not lead to violent behaviour like alcohol abuse.
I have bipolar disorder and would suffer if there was cannabis smoke in the air, because I would have to breath it and it would make me dizzy with medication I use mixed. So I want it to remain illegal, because then there is no joint smokers in every corner.
??
It would funnel billions of euros from criminal organizations to elected govermnents whom, presumably, would invest and spend it on education, health care, etc.
Of course yes
Only that ???!! What about ekstasi ?? Would be perfect ;) :)
yes. with regulations. the “drug war” has failed misserably and the people that dont see that are either blind, stupid or criminals.
Yes and heavily taxed.
No
of course
Yes. If we controll it, there will be less problems and get taxes for it, like alcohol.
Yes!
Yes. It is such a medievel prohibiton.
Only a drug addict would say yes.
For medical purposes it definitely should be readily available to those that can benefit from it: people with MS, paralysis, CP, etc. Recreational usage is debatable due to linkage with psychosis.
Yes. The war on drugs is an abject failure, wasting fortunes while there are demonstrable ways of getting better results, Portugal is the best example. Drug usage and crime rates are all down. The Global Commission on Drug Policy are a good body to listen to on this topic.
http://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/
Always better to legalize it than to have to cope with an illegal market.
When you drink alcohol,you become suicidal and you mean danger to the public. This is legal.
When you smoke cannabis you become happy, and want to hug everybody. This is illegal.
My answer is: YES.
You choose the worst person which could speak about this topic: Giovanardi :O
I think yes!
Here’s a very interesting article on addiction that refers to Portugal, this passage stands out: “Decriminalization has been such a manifest success that very few people in Portugal want to go back to the old system. The main campaigner against the decriminalization back in 2000 was Joao Figueira, the country’s top drug cop. He offered all the dire warnings that we would expect from the Daily Mail or Fox News. But when we sat together in Lisbon, he told me that everything he predicted had not come to pass — and he now hopes the whole world will follow Portugal’s example.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits
It is not legal?It grows in my garden…Hygh quality!
Yes, it should
Medicinal marijuana should without a doubt be legalized across the continent. Recreational use should also be considered under certain conditions however. The city of Maastricht actually makes for a good case study as the drug used to be legal in the the town, but has now been heavily restricted. The immediate effect is that those people looking for it usually turn to gangs on the streets who sell it for high fees and also peddle heavier drugs. Can’t really see the benefit of losing tax revenues, seeing an increase in crime rates, and the need for more police security in a city
yes
yes, the cost of policing its ban is not worth it as it has no significant impact on its distribution at the end of the day nor is the harm caused by it more than that of regular cigarets or alcohol. It is in high demand and it is best regulated in order to protect the consumers ensuring good quality marijuana and not a product sprayed with all sorts of chemicals that would end up causing more harm to the consumer than good. Additionally if taxed properly it would generate a massive income to the EU countries, as it is doing now to some of the States who legalized it. The same should be done for prostitution in order to stop the slave trade and protect exploited women and customers.
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It is legalized in Netherland already. For the other countries I don’t know but I think we have to keep it forbidden in France. The problem is cannabis is the market of poor people in France and allow them to live. If we legalize it, these people will have to find something else, more dangerous. But that is for France.
For European Union I think it is better to let each country deciding independantly.
No !!!!
No !!!!
no. i have lost a few friends because of it. i mean they didnt die but its like they did. if you cant have a normal conversation with them, then whats the point of having them as friends. they are lost in their world. so yea…its a no
Yes!
Yep
Make profit, make peace
Ainult narkots meil veel puudub siis oleks meie eesti rahvas ehk vhem stressis kui kogu aeg pilves olla
I am not an adict and I say maybe yes because can be controlled. Prices will drop down and interest as well. Holland does not have more adicts than other countries.
?? it looks like we’ll be stoned to death and wait for the ISIS to come and f….k us properly.
yasaklar zevklidir!! kim ne yerse ne ierse bedelini zaten kendi dyor!! serbest olmal?!
Yes.
Yes no doubt! It will hit hard organized Crime and will grant huge fiscal inflows for member States
Definetely!
Frankly, I would much prefer cannabis to be controlled and taxed like alcohol and cigarettes than left in the grey zone it is now, where even children can buy it anywhere and where the profits go into the wrong hands. My real and only concern is: what would those currently profiting from it turn to? Its not like they will disappear. Legalisation should then be accompanied by some kind of ‘support’ for those involved in this currently illegal trade to find new jobs, and possibly a crack down on those who turn to other, meaner means. But overall, it seems like a logical and fair move.
L’Olanda stata ls prima nel mondo occidentale a legalizzarla.
Yes, definitely!
No!!!!
lot illegal medicine are legal like tabacco, alcohol, petrol diesel, sleeping tablets etcc….
yes !!!! … :)
Never
Yup.
No, it would be the triumph of drug addicts,
Absolutely yes! No civilized societies should tolerate the concept of victimless crimes.
Cuidado com os problemas de sade e possveis abusos do uso de cannabis…
Legalized – not sure…
Decriminalized – definitely!
I think that in terms of drug abuse, the EU should have a new and more serious approach against alcohol.
Yes
YES….the biggest benefit will be to not push people into undeground with hard drugs and assholes.
Cannabis is like beer, if you consume to much then it is not healthy, else it is okay
??!
Que le ves primero a un Hombre by Andrei: https://youtu.be/-vfLSqyou9Q
I dont use it but Yes. But not to be sold on everycorner by shady freeks like in some cities and Brussels
No chance!
If alcohol and tobacco are legalized, why not cannabis?
Why? Isn’t it?
definitely NO!
Of course, it should never been illegal in the first place!
Of course! And prostitution!!!!
Yes
Eu no compreendo porque no . Se o tabaco e permitido com o rtulo FUMAR MATA porque no cannabis
Eu no compreendo porque no . Se o tabaco e permitido com o rtulo FUMAR MATA porque no cannabis
Absolutely!
Absolutely!
no
Can’t stand the stuff. Disgusting, filthy habit usually enjoyed by people who decidedly place themselves outside society. I hope it gets taxed like hell, if ever it should be legalised.
NO! We cannot loose our young generations!!!
No because that’s Just another way of financing dying nation states who want to tax crime
Interesting question indeed.
I dont understand why is marihuana more fatable than alcohol or cigarettes for example, which are legalised; you should also be bewared of all clinical studies that have been maded about the matter of positive effects.
Some say it cures cancer, some sayed that the consumation of it has restore their mental state. I personaly am convinced that marihuana is far better that antidepressives that you get from your doctor; speaking on the base of personal experiences…
Also; legalisation would bring a lot of taxes from citizends – users. I used this “drug” 10 years and i dont regret it. The most inportant fact for you to know is that almost all youth is using it, but because is forbidden! Such things are the sweetest, as we know already.
So now i am adressing your question and… there is an old phrase:
Give the people what they want.
What a stupid question ..OF COURSE NOTTTTT……….http://www.narcotics.com/wp-content/uploads/brain-on-cannabis.jpg
Yes!
yes..
yes
A top legalizar mesmo e uma economia pr pais e temos qualidade no produto e menos crimanidade e acaba o trafico!!!! Sou a favor de ligalizar !!!
No
Just for therapeutical use
For health reasons, no. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvszaF4vcNY
If you need lots of stupid people in EU, legalise it
Alcohol or Marijuana? A Pediatrician Faces the Question
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/upshot/alcohol-or-marijuana-a-pediatrician-faces-the-question.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone&_r=2&abt=0002&abg=0&referrer=
Rationality and drugs
David Nutt
http://iai.tv/video/rationality-and-drugs
No.
All psychoactive substances should be suppressed. We want normal citizens, not euphoric idiots.
NO !
NO!
of course, everyone has a right to choose his own priorities
Yes sure, it would be the best.
Yes!
Yes.
Destigmatizing it would help alleviate some of the current complications associated with cannabis use.
Yes! This ”euphoric idiots” phrase is recurring, Who sent the trolls on a mission? What we have is enough bitter jerks.
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what a pointless question, of course not.
Why not start a debate about something important, like the democratic deficiency in Europe ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-146853/Why-cannabis-greater-cancer-risk-tobacco.html
Rubbish. Cannabis has been proven to send tumors into regression. Mixing it with tobacco on the other hand will increase the risk of cancer.
No
Same regulations should apply as for alcohol or tobacco…
Off course !!!
Yes and prohibit alcohol, because we dont want drunk euphoric/aggressive idiots running around.
If you say NO than you should forbid also alchool because it’s much more harming. So cannabis should BE LEGALIZED. It wil create fiscal revenues and jobs
Yes! It wouldn’t do any harm. And it might even do some good!
Yes
No!
Absolutely YES. Cannabis is not worse than alcohol or tobacco, well in that case, alcohol is worse.
If you drink alcohol you get drunk, acting like a barbarian, crashing everything.
If you use cannabis, you want to hug everybody.
And yet alcohol is still legal, while cannabis isn’t.
No. We have enough crazy people after alcohol, drugs or so…It does not matter if its light or hard drugs…its still drug.
Yes :)
Yes because cures cancer, because doesn’t harm the health and because we can have much more money from the taxis and less corruption.
Sure but Giovanardi is not a model for us, is one of the worst italian MIP :)
Yes..we should be in nirvana to survive in a europe like this
No
sure like alkohol and tobacco
No. It doesnt need to be encouraged, it’s too widespread already.
I don’t know if we are ready for it, but we could start by having a European law helping people to have marijuana for medical cure.
For medical sure!
Oui
Of course should be.
yes. with regulations.
Forbiden things are the most appealing
yes, like in colorado & tax it, better for economy & who says that everyone will start using it just because its regulated?
only for medicine purpose
I should yes
Absolutely No !
excuse me junkies,but should not
Medical Marihuana of cours
yes, just like alcohol .
Janusz Palikot na marszu Wolnych Konopi: http://youtu.be/6qzmOp2lCqk
Please don’t! Like we don’t have enough potheads already! If it gets legal, it will be easier to kids get their hands on it. This thing influences the way your brain works and affects brain development in kids. I know personally cases of precocious lunacy on people using it regularly and those who don’t get crazy, normally get to lazy to maintain a job and conduct their lives in a very irresponsible manner.
if its illegal, drug dealers don’t ask for i.d – therefore kids can easily get it with no restrictions.
If its legal, they need to be 18 and prove their age to get it.
Making things illegal does not stop them doing it!!!!
Of course, man!
of course…
Cannabis consumers hurt nobody and should be left in peace. If you dont like us, dont make friends with us. But you got no right criminalising us. We pride ourselves as tending to form free, humane societies in europe. We should, at least, learn to tolerate behaviors that hurt nobody. The idea of a victimless crime is despotic by its nature.
Yes
Yes
Rhana Jennifer
YES
Yes, Make Love, Not War
Lorenzo Boschi Jonathan Fili Davide Tamberi
Yes.
Yes, we cannot consider it as our only solution for the Euro Zone economic problems…but it could surely helps to develop a new business across Europe!
I forgot the answer. I have smoked too much cannabis.
YES, of course!
It should have never been illegal in the first place.
Look up the investigation at the Psychiatry Institute from King’s College (UK) and the studies that show that Canabis can improve up to 5 times the risk of esquizofrenia… Look at what the neuroscience is telling us before legislating.
This investigation is very bias and only focuses on thc. The reason for this is the increased levels of thc and the decrease of the anti-pyschotic agent cbd, this is due to prohibition which leaves authorities helpless to regulate a natural balance of chemicals in Cannabis. Cbd has been proven to be very effective at treating depression, cancer pain, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, anxiety, paranoia. These are the facts.
yes.
Indeed, because everyone should be allowed to use his body the way he wants. The second reason is that the war on drugs actually helps the mafia and the cartels. Third and the foremost – war on drugs is an enourmous expense for the budget of every country. Legalize! Liberty 420, Dimitar Karagegov
Yes
“We should be be applying the Italian system, which sees the drug dealers prosecuted under criminal law while the drug consumers are considered to be victims who need to be cured and rescued. Cocaine, heroin, and cannabis consumers should only be sanctioned administratively, for example by withdrawing their driving license, firearm license or their passport.”
Senator Carlo Giovanardi
Yes
It should be decriminalized for sure.
1973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4fuwbjw2Eo
Yes. Of course!
yes, absolutely
I am Pro-Choice! Anyone shalle be guaranteed with the freedom to follow the path of divine legislation called “self-determination” (De libero arbitrio or διατριβή) or live the life imposed by tirants!
Yes
I thought it was !
“ligalizit bro” ;)
If legalizing it the different mafias all over Europe lose tons of money, it’s worth thinking about it
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The drug addicts on here demand ‘YES’ while the evidence clearly says ‘NO’.
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Drug use creates around 15.4 billion in crime and health costs each year in the UK alone.
99 per cent of that is caused by problematic drug use.
between a third and a half of robberies, burglaries and other thefts relate to drug use
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Cannabis is illegal simply because of banking – petrochemical and pharmaceutical lobbying. In nowadays economical situation, expensive, harmful (for the planet) and rare raw materials, cannabis would be indeed a “gateway drug” not for drug consumption, but for the persistant present crisis. Cannabis shouldn’t be depicted as a recreational drug, but as a medicine, a food, an energy, as a high valuable and cheap raw material. Educate yourself on the topic, before falling for the old lobbyist propaganda. Moreover, the cannabis market is not controlled by the states, and imply the biggest european mafias, notably in Fr, Sp, It and other western EU countries. We do not need such mafia, and the european war on drugs, cost too much money when, if opposite balance, would bring an incredible amount of inside cash flow for the good of people, of industry, of economies.
Yes
All drugs should be legal across Europe. Unfortunately this cannot happen because it would destroy the illegal drug market, something the drug lords will never allow.
yes
It’s illegal when produced and used by people but legal when pharmaceuatical corpor. are using it as their “pattern’. But of course i forgot myshlef, Isnys is using it to produce “medicines” for the public good…. What was i thinking…. http://marijuanastocks.com/insys-therapeutics-inc-insy-nasdaq-positioning-growth/
YES !!!
Yes! Take a look at Holland and the declining usage! Its obvious that legalizing it is overall beneficial to the society! US is going that way too…
No absolutely mot
Of course! How many people die every year for smoking marihuana? How many for tabacco?
YES Nature is legal or :?
Yes
Considering how absolutely everybody is a conditioned idiot obeying the strict rules of job/family/kids/two hobbies/couple of holidays/parties and funerals/ calmly awaiting your pension days in risk free societies… I can only encourage the use of cannabis and its legalisation….in reality I would also encourage drunk driving with what I just mentioned… considering there is no point left in these lives and they are formated equally for all… drunk driving, prostitutes and all drugs should be legalised.. any other money you will end up wasting… what’ll be next..?. should idiotic religious beliefs made to control the poor be spread and institutionalised throughout the layers of society?
Yes
Yes.Its ridiculous to have it forbidden.
Should alcohol be banned accross Europe ?
Yes…and politicians should smoke. ..maybe they will get some inspiration for a better and more just world.
True dat, one love.
No
yes, it should. taxing and banning an issue doesn’t solve the problem, it worsens it
We can live with Greek spirit’
We should work with our brain ,our spirit,not with things we BUY!
No
For medical reasons yes!!!!
YES!
KES?NL?KLE SERBEST OLMALI!
YES!
free growing 4 everyone!
No
Yes man!
Yes!!!!..or make booz illegal and call it a drug,cause it is a drug,only difference is one makes people aggressive! Other chilled out!
No, bcz ppl will invent smth more fucked up. Lol
No , no ,no
No, it should’t, join a group of desperate parents with addicted children if you don’t believe what scientists already tell you about the effects of cannabis use… :-(
Of course. It isn’t more dangerous than tobacco or alcohol, is it? So why not?
Countries like Uruguay who legalized marijuana have already gained and are gaining a lot on it by social and economical means too.
Yes, of course!
Yup
YES! YES! YES!
Medical purposes and that’s it!!!!!!!!!
if NATURE is illegal FREEDOM doesn’t exist! Amen.
End of story.. wake up sheeps.
yes, because
kids would not poison on them pills or synthetic cannabis that is burning their synapses and leave them handicapees for life.
consumers are here to stay and need a safe regulated clean quality product on what they can rely.
criminality will sure sell you anything.
alcohol and tobacco are not better alternatives.
people in different cultures around the world smoked it safe since ancient times. some wild animals in their habitats have been observed using different substances to induce euphoria.
You should make research on it an publish results. I don’t think cannabis should be legal .
Absolutely yes!!!
Yes
Yes.
if e.u doesnt legalize it ,i could easily think and accuse it that they co-operate with criminals that they sell it in the black market,which would not surprise me.
Yes, Myron Kanakis couldn’t have said it better.
Absolutely NOT. Do we want to grow an addicted European generation? O.o
addict to what? Drugs like alcohol which daily kills people and it’s LEGAL or marijuna who never killed any people on Earth but its ILLEGAL wtf?! Sheep wake up!!!
No we want to grow an educated European generation. Prohibition of Cannabis doesn’t work…an estimated 77 million Europeans have smoked Cannabis in their life-time. 8-10 million have smoked in the past month. Regardless of what the law says people will still smoke it. Under prohibition we cannot fully educate people about the dangers of heavy Cannabis use.
No. El estado lo sostiene los contribuyentes para que ste les proteja de la amenaza que para la salud pblica suponen las drogas. El cannabis tiene ms con tras que cosas positivas
Legaligem aqui na Madeira …..
Definitely not! Even for medical reasons, are a lot of another better paint killers.
Yes
Whatever one thinks about it, quoting Giovanardi makes credibility of the “no-side” falling to zero.
questo sistema fatto di competitivit ci rende infelici e ci stressa a tal punto che bisogna trovare gioia nella fantasia e la droga aiuta a renderci ” fuori di testa “. Dobbiamo dire grazie ? Prego!
Of course… Cannabis isn’t yet legalized because most of the big dealers are in the command or in governors!! One natural herb, can’t dead you!!! And all we know that this herb is used in medicinal treatments!!!
LEGAL for anybody over 25 years of age !!!
Yes
Yes
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_cause_most_harm
I think if all drugs should be legal, taxed and regulated.
If crack was legal, would you buy it? Nope.
1)LOT of money could be saved and that money could be spent on treatment of addicts.
2)Criminal syndicates would lose their power.
3)Money collected from those taxes, could be used to make education free.
4)People are in prison for victimless crimes, nobody ever forces people to use drugs.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_cause_most_harm
I think if all drugs should be legal, taxed and regulated.
If crack was legal, would you buy it? Nope.
1)LOT of money could be saved and that money could be spent on treatment of addicts.
2)Criminal syndicates would lose their power.
3)Money collected from those taxes, could be used to make education free.
4)People are in prison for victimless crimes, nobody ever forces people to use drugs.
yes
yes for marijuana … :)
If YES – world could be better place
If NO – ppl will still smoke and sick ppl will still have trouble getting THE DRUG…
So…………………….
No!
No
Yes. The crime rate, especially among yougsters, would drop significantly, since you’ll take weed off the steet…plus the state would generate a huge tax income, which would be probably a huge benefit for all sectors in the respective communities..furthermore it would loose the “forbidden apple” kind of twist, if it would be legal and the consumption would be a lot less exciting and with it attractive, since it would not be anything special anymore.
Yes
Legalize
I would completely agree that cannabis should be legalized
“legalise it, and I will advertise it”
LEGALISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes,for many reasons
Cannabis needs to be regulated, in doing so we can control thc and raise cbd levels in the plant, making it safer for users. We can also impose an age restriction as we do with alcohol, making Cannabis more difficult to obtain by minors as drug dealers don’t ask for identification. It will also lower crime rate and tax payer spending going towards custodial sentences for those in possession of small quantities of Cannabis. The financial aspect of legislation will create employment and improve over-all GDP for European nations. Most importantly, legislation will take billions of Euro’s out of the hands of criminal organisations. Cannabis consumption has been on going for thousands of years and it will continue do so under prohibition, so let us make it safe for consumers to purchase from licensed vendors/suppliers etc. It is time to take the logical approach and legalise Cannabis throughout Europe.
legalise!
Physicians, Medical Marijuana, and the Law
http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2014/09/hlaw1-1409.html#.VVm1_QxIXc0.twitter
Neuroprotective effect of cannabidiol, on beta-amyloid-induced toxicity in PC12 cells http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15030397
A Molecular Link Between the Active Component of Marijuana and Alzheimer’s Disease
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2562334/
absolutely YES!! The prohibition about drugs and especially about a plant, it’s the dumbest thing ever thinked, it CREATED the narcos and after billions spended a thousands of people ruined…. the people have never doped than today and with more dangerous substances . When this farce will be over, we will remember it as we do now with the American Prohibition on alcohol
Giovanardi???
ma i politici italiani hanno sempre doppi fini ehehe Fini!
Fini-Giovanardi hanno fatto una legge incostituzionale che dopo anni e’ stata dichiarata illegittima e voi intervistate uno che fa leggi incostituzionali?
i proibizionisti sono affaristi a loro interessa che girino i soldi pubblici nel sistema giudiziario (cosi’ gli avvocati lavorano!) nelle strutture di recupero (cosi gli amici lavorano) …ma recupero cosa?
un eroinomane, un cocainomane…ma veramente dobbiamo far passare la Canapa come queste m***e di droghe sintetiche???
I am from Bulgaria, here marijuana is prohibited by law, and what good is it? People who use persecuted for ridiculous amounts ranging from a few grams to a cigarette and being imprisoned from 6 to 10 years, and as everybody knows drugs in prison are not less than drugs on the street, mainly in prison is taken heroin that leads to slow but certain death, the future of young people is spoiled because certain people have decided that marijuana is terrible and dangerous as heroin, which European country is mildly funny, my thought is that in countries cadets cannabis is illegal, no drug a choice and are forced to buy from street Dilara who sell cannabis with questionable quality which in turn leads to health problems upotrebyavashite legalization of cannabis is the only solution to deal with the black market and reducing the use of hard drugs. Hopefully soon begin to discuss the subject in Bulgaria.
To all the people here who said no. Pay close attention!
I want you to suffer. That is right. Suffer. Suffer extreme pain without death relieving you of it. Like the Christian version of hell. Your guts spilled out in the gutter. Suffocating, yet still breathing. Dismembered with your organs intact. Immobile, screaming for mercy in the middle of nowhere.
Why? Because you deserve it! For all the needless pain you and your prohibitionist buddies have caused to innocent people who prefers a joint over the PC drugs like tobacco, alcohol, caffeine and prescription DEAth meds. Seriously, screw you!
It should not only be legalised, but should be made mandatory!
Yet there is a way more dangerous drug right there in front of you on that table. Irony?
It saddens me to see so many lefties in support of cannabis prohibition. Marijuana was made illegal in the US by a man who wanted to save his career after alcohol prohibition – Harry J Anslinger. This man said that marijuana was used by “satanic” black jazz musicians, who wanted to rape white women. Dunno about you, but that is extremely racist. The left is supposed to be against racism, right? Legalize globally. Treat it like alcohol with age restrictions – no problems.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
Sure. But pass laws for it so it doesn’t get abused.
evet
What problem/benefit are you trying to solve/achieve?
YES!!!! It is outrageous a plant that comes straight from the earth with no chemical process and so many benefits to be illegal. It is completely harmless to it illegal since we have ZERO deaths every year from cannabis use! It is the same with alcohol, if you don’t like it, don’t drink it!
Yes
and abroad!
.
What an idiotic question, only drug addicts and their dealers would say yes.
https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/evidence99/marijuana/Health_1.html
Yes.
I have never used any drugs, so my opinion is not based on being a drug consumer. But I do think cannabis should be legalized as well as prostitution. Highly controlled, but legalized.
not should, must
Absolutely yes
Sure
Well it is better when drug industry is controled by criminals.
When alcohol was illegal everything turned out just fine…
Yes
Yes.
Only for medical reasons!!
Yes!
tout ce qui est naturel devrait etre légalisé par principe. Qui peut s’ériger plus fort que la nature et interdire ce qu’elle nous offre.
N O !!
Of course, it will take money away from organized crime, it will produce tax income for states and it will decrease the “excitement” around young people in doing something illegal. I’ve never smoked cannabis but I much rather going out with people that smoke instead of people that drink too much alcohol. Stoned people are calm and friendly whereas drunk people are violent, molest and dangerous.
For sure should be legalized and be free for everybody to have a small plant in his house.
Leave the profit and quality control to the drug dealers. They know what they are doing for sure. And expect consuption to reduce. As long as it’s an activity without control, it will surely diapear…. BAZINGA!!!
Yes
No because with no legalization is a epidemy, imagine if it is free!
I agree if is free for medical treatment for example terminal illness
No – read Peter Hitchens the war we never fought
Of corse it should. Can’t believe we’re debating this. The EU is all about liberalization of the member states.
I don’t think so other than for medicinal use if effective.. It seems to do people a lot of psychological damage who use it from what I can see.. It’s not my scene personally
No! Its a drug
No. Tabaco should be banned instead. 👅
Yes it should. No government should have the power to say what can i put in my body or not.
yes,definetly.
use should be de-criminalized and posesion as well.only for cannabis,altough.not for other drugs,such as chemical drugs.it’s a step forward to freedom.
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I wonder how many of the contributors on this page are drug addicts ? , it would answer a lot of questions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31480234
It would answer what?
That WE are fighting for our rights…!
We’re all tailors of our destiny… If you don’t like cannabis, don’t use it…
Yes, i think it should be in the same categorie of alcohol beverages
Yesss! 🍀🌿
yes!
Yep, if alcohol is legal this should be too
I dont smoke canabis but i think yes, why not?
No
YES
Yes
.
So many drug addicts, its no wonder the EU is going down the toilet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31480234
Go research a little bit and then comment… ;)
YES !!!
YES!
NEJ. NO TO DRUGS!!
No
Of course; it should have never been illegal in the first place!!!
NO WAY … They want us to don’t think !!! Alcohol and drugs is the future of stupid people !!!!!
NO WAY … They want us to don’t think !!! Alcohol and drugs is the future of stupid people !!!!!
each country haw to make his own decision.
each country haw to make his own decision.
Yes! Should have been done for a long time…
Yes! Should have been done for a long time…
No rather banned across Europe
No rather banned across Europe
~ ΑΒSOLUTELY Y-E-S FOR MEDICAL REASONS ONLY!
~ ΑΒSOLUTELY Y-E-S FOR MEDICAL REASONS ONLY!
Definitely NO !!! NO DRUGS, please!!!
duh… of course and TAX it make $$$ focus on big crime. Alcoholism is a bigger concern for liver disease, car accidents and crime!
YES , in rumania for the pacient with cancer is ilegal.
many US states did it and look at the results. the world isnt burning and people didnt turn to junkies.. so.. why is this still a question? why are we spending money on enforcing a stupid law and permit criminals to earn millions from it? legalize it and tax it just like alcohol. ffs
Yes, for pain management.
Definitely cannabis oil.
of course
If it is a proved medicine, yes!
Yes legalised cannabis and many other measures that are identified in Europe
No, narcomans are dangerous
YES
YES….. I WIN
no
No
no
It is more efficient to be legalized and heavily regulated than fight against pure black market.
no
Yes! This is a natural medicine from our mother earth! (Legalizing does not mean that the usage will be mandatory.)
Albania is full of
Yes
No way, unless it becomes good to cure a disease, but highly controlled.
Absolutely yes.
No!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=896256960431302&set=a.283741518349519.68420.100001410186604&type=1
Of course should
I think Debating Europe should be made illegal or at least strictly controlled, just like cannabis. I don’t know who’s behind those computers but you guys excel at opening subjects that we’d be better off without. Your articles are real cringe compilations. You debate stuff like gay marriage, legalizing drugs and have a fetish for dictating attitudes towards the situation in Ukraine. Were I anywhere outside of the EU, I would unlike your facebook profile, but for the moment I keep you on, as a memento. It’s truly disappointing to realize that people like YOU are the future of Europe, people with no regard to truth and no sense of precaution.
Yes its very important to be legalized!!!
No
I think yes, it should be legalized…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPrRlRWaIbk&feature=youtu.be
European Drug Report 2015 — Get the facts – EMCDDA
yes if the price is as carrot or salads because it s a reality of crop per ares with real cost not abusiv price as it be done in holland swisserland america where they abused around the true cost of a plant that gave much more than the resins but fibre, linoleic acid , organic foam , RIGHT
Looking at the real reasons it was actually made illegal and you will see the absurdity of the laws. Remember this was legal before and sold widely as medicine.
The only statistics that show cannabis to be harmful are those based on people using it with tobacco. Alcohol and tobacco are legal and they kill millions of people. Cannabis however is not responsible for any deaths. Alcohol makes people aggressive, cannabis does the opposite. Anyone who’s had a bad experience with cannabis has probably either taken too much (eating it) or used it after consuming a lot of alcohol which can induce vomiting. If you use cannabis everyday all day then yes that’s abuse but people abuse food everyday also. Maybe they should ban McDonalds, no… not maybe ,definitely!!! :0)
Dr Sanjay Gupta look him up on youtube.. here is what I call a good investigation to the benefits of Cannabis, also it looks at the downs sides. So what I have learnt I will not be anyones judge… also our bodies are not designed to take all this chemical medication that harms us in many ways. We seemed to accept these harms without question all because the law makes it ok?????Yes we need Laws but good laws not laws the are based on Profit!.. such as the ban on cannabis. Each country needs to do its due diligence and decide however medically CBD a known compound in Cannabis is good for us.. helps with Depression helps with pain relief helps children who suffer horrifically with Seizures and so on.. When this world knows better it will do better… I believe we are getting to know better….
YES!!! Cannabis should be legal everywhere in Europe. This is a plant that has never killed anyone in it’s 10,000 years of use. Can the same be said about alcohol? NO! Tobacco? NO! Cannabis is MUCH safer than alcohol or tobacco and both of these are legal.
i now legaliser canabis end never!!
Sure, yes!
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Why do you persist asking if things should be banned or legalised across Europe when everyone knows it is up to the member Nation States ?
A better question would be “Do the peoples of Europe want to be forcibly integrated so EU wide dictates could be enforced across Europe ?”
Yes, without any doubt.
EVET.YESSSSSS :)
yes, this will radically enable our police and all justice institutions and courts to focus on important crime reducing drastically the amount of hours and administration costs spent on hunting down canabis usage. People who smoke will continue smoking whatever measures you put in place. By not legalising canabis consumption our institution is favoring black market and more crime. Last but not least why isn’t alcohol consumption legal? It kills people liver much more faster than canabis without mensioning how it affects the brain and causes billions of car killings and the list goes on!
No
Yes, already….
Yes , also other “light” drugs like mushrooms or ecstasy …
Like all ambiguous matters it depends.
I am a great admirer of the work of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, a look at who there commissioners are shows how very serious and experienced this group is. Their advice and reccomendations should form the basis of global legislation towards drugs. Fact is, the war on drugs has failed and countries such as Portugal have given us repeatable models which work demonstrably better. They decriminalised everything, cutting illegal groups out of the market, and treat dependency as a health issue not a criminal issue. Addiction rates have plummeted because people who go down the path of addiction can get treatment at any time and are treated humanely, and all kinds of crime rates have fallen because of people not turning to illegal ways to fund their addictions.
http://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/bios/
Legalising cannabis would create jobs, free up police resources, stop trowing people in jail for victimless crimes and by cutting out the black market it would raise over 2 billion per year in tax revenue.
Yes, it is already long overdue!
Suply and demand
no
Yes! So i can stay at home and not go to Amsterdam every year
YES!
It should have never been illegal in the first place. Enough with victim-less crimes!
No i think we should put people in prison for enjoying their life.
Freedom is illegal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDVmldTurqk
http://i.imgur.com/31BcRwq.jpg
Yes! Legalize it! Stats are in favor!
No.
For or against its still an unhealthy thing. Could be legal but shouldn’t be available anywhere. I wish we could stop selling tobacco too.
Take toilet paper and nailpolish remover and you you be sure that coffee stains are removed in your carpet :-D
debate europe? so video games should be banned, but even more drugs should be legalized :D morons
yes.
Absolutely yes.
It’s not Cannabis, it’s HEMP. As long as you name it like if it was merely a recreational drug, you’ll keep the masses blind, If that is not your true purpose. YES HEMP SHOULD BE LEGAL AND USED FOR MUCH MORE THAN SMOKING!!!!
Yes it should and taxed so the budget will grow more, more money for wealth
No im not agree with this really …im tinkin about manny tinagers and childrens who take drugs and is really depresive
Yes
NO! Nothing should be done «across europe». Brussels should tell peoples how thwy want to live.
yes,
please yes!
Yes!!
yes
Please yes.
At the minimum we should legalise cannabis tax revenues.
YES! Good medicine for a lot of illnesses!
Yes
Pro …
Pro …
No, its a narcotik
No, its a narcotik
No the stinky stuff
Começam por legalizar drogas leves, a seguir são as pesadas é assim que se começa
Obviously, it shouldn’t.
Objectif santé: ne pas en pénnaliser l’usage par les drogués pour qu’ils aient accès aux soins
Objectif de lutte contre les narcotrafiquants:
Ou tout pénaliser avec des peines sévères .
Attention: si on autorise la vente de cannabis seulement on incite les narcotrafiquants à développer les drogues dures auprès des jeunes.
Ou tout autoriser pour éliminer les narcotrafiquants. Accès libre à toutes drogues avec programme d’information de soins accompagnant les drogués.
“Yes” , and after that stock the supermarkets with guns and we will live in the “perfect society “
Yes. Just look at the great example of Holland. There it’s illegal, but seen theough the fingers. The few people that want to smoke cannabis there can do it, while the vast mayority will never visit a coffeeshop.
Plus the gov. earns cash because the companies charge VAT, etc.
sure
When they asked the big cities of the Netherlands to close coffee shops to foreigners – it was the police and mayors of all parties asking not to be stupid as legalisation helped them reduce organised crime to lower-levels for decades. Globally cannabis is 60% of cartel’s income. Legalising is fighting criminality and stopping the hypocrisy of having a violent drug like alcohol legal whilst not allowing a ‘passive’ one.
100%
yes
100%
yesss !!!!! …. :)
Yes
No way Bann Tobacco instead
Yes.
C’est une drogue dure le cannabis, Stop. En taule les dealers.
NO!!!…, NO!!!.., NO!!!.., the EU must take other and more important questions to Debat!!! Stopp to Manipulate the EU’s citizens health and the EU countries memberships taxes! First of all look after for the EU’s Childrens + Olderly Pensionate/Retired Peoples + and Finally for the Desabillity Peoples and ALL Accidents Desabilities Health and theirs Rehabilitation!!! Find out first the topp and the Lowest part of the Body, and finally the connection between the Healthy Brain and Foot!!! It’s a Healthy challenges and lesson! Take IT and Let to learn something with Good result! By!
The thing is, in my opinion, that European citizens actually consume cannabis, but in the shadows… While worse drugs like alcohol are allowed all along Europe. As Laszló Schilling said, there are more important things to solve in Europe, but legalizing cannabis wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Following that top priority topic then seems we are going to be asked if musturbation must be legal or not in public …
Yes, there are other things more important to spend time on.
No. The message has to be clear: the laws exist to protect the people against threats and the greed of mafias and dealers!
Under some conditions and strong regulations, yes!
No. Alcoholism already means a burden big enough.
Yes and cocaine !!!
NO!
Why not ?? Marijuana isn’t comparable at cocaine or syntetic drugs, but is comparable at alchool. Why the alchool is legal and the marijuana isn’t ??
No
It should be totally band.
Yes, it should not be legalised
yes sure, it’s the safest way to do it for everybody.
yep
Why not ask if, for example, alcohol should be forbidden across Europe?
YES- SHOULD BE LEGAL EVERYWHERE
Positive 100% for medical canabis.
YES!!
It’s should yes stop puting people in jail or before a judge just for smoking a joint and invest the money in education , help for people who want to stop with it etcetc
Yes
No, it’s a filthy and dangerous habit.
Legalising cannabis would be another mesure in order to distract people from their real problems! We have much more major problems in europe right now, like the refugee wave and the inhumanity that these people face in special states that the less we care about is the dutch approach to cannabis!!!
No its the first step to drugs
do some research the only way its a gateway drug is because its illegal and your pot dealer is also selling other drugs
This is bullshit !
Yes,legalise cannabis ! More taxes in and the little criminality will disapear by itself
And criminality will start to cell hard drug at our children
No just in middle east, as the France was not foundet just for herself Afganistan was good for canabis, hasish… junk..
Kids are buying it right now in every corner from criminal and ther is no control. The only ID a dealer would ask to see is your money. If it were legalized and regulated. .shops would at least legally control the access to adults only or face fines and risk closure.
Yes, it should, and it will sooner rather than later. Granted, the long history of prohibition makes it hard to implement this change quickly, however it’s clear from opinion polls that younger generations are overwhelmingly in favour of legalization, and therefore it’s only a matter of time until it happens.
legalize soft drugs and hard drugs and all weapons crime will disappear certainely and our children will experience heaven on earth
Yes
yes, sure
yes .especially medical
Since Europe recognises the right for anyone to marry their chosen partner, then it should recognise the right for anyone to smoke their chosen plant…
Thats rigth!
Why not!..at least we will all take a good laugh when we ‘suddenly’ we’ll find all of us praying allah…
oh ya, considering the mess is Europe right now, we really need it
Yes!
Of course it should be legalized! Here in Greece it’s all over the place and everybody smokes!! If it were legal we would have less crime and the taxes income for the goverment would go to the top.Just do it already because all this money goes to some drug dealers and policemen who are making a fortune out of it !!
And i am not talking about the local dealer…….
Of course it should. The ugly part is that every countries and the EU would start to charge taxes, so more money to take from the citizens. At least, when something is bought from the black market or illegally, it’s sure that the institutions won’t see a single euro. Anyway, they (and you) have already enough money. It’s your problem if you don’t invest it properly.
That’s a question????? Of course
Have you completely lost it? You have.No,of course not.Eventually we will open the doors for drugs.Let the countries choose for themselves.
Why not? Is vodka or whisky less offensive? I don’t smoke at all, but ….just a matter of ethics…..
there so many possitive things
There a so many positive things
Esp for E.Europe will be boost for economic
Lets check what happaned in Colorado
How much money came from tax only
And also its prerry stupid you can smoke normal in Holland you going in Germany you cant Passing Germany in Ch Republic you can smoke again
And also there is a lot benefits for your health and your body and brain!
Yes !
No NoWay
Keep Europe Clean , Shining And Green
Of course yes!
Glad to see such a consensus on this question. Yes it should be legalized, firstly to reduce the violence generated by the drugs trafficking (even if it’s impossible to stop it completely) and also to insure a quality control of the products to prevent many health issues. But first we need to change our way to approach this question and stop considering drug addicts as criminals but as victims!
of course yes
I am writing my final thesis on the topic. The use of the product in France, and in the rest of the European union, is THE solution to the current economic, social, and environmental crisis. The only reason of its prohibition probably originates from lobbying.
My research have shown that any country introducing the product on a public monopoly, both for recreational and for industrial use, will get out of the different crisis previously cited.
1. Taxing the product
2. Using its benefits for medicines
3. using its benefits for industry
These funny guys, identifying canabis with drugs…
WHY? Do you have any medical reason? Against are a lot, so NO!
Yes.
definitely YES!!!!
Yep. The positives outweigh the negatives.
That’s because is the logical way to answer.
Yes is allow therefore you consume or not, it is up to you == Freedom.
yes
Yes for “mental” patients
All drugs should be legal for consumption (with some age limits) but the “market” must be exclusively of the state and a strong campaigns – commercials, school visits, etc should be preformed to inform everyone of the consequences and to dissuade possible consumers or future ones. On the other side, people with serious problems looking for help (do overcome addiction for example) should get it just like an alcoholic.
You can consume even “hard” drugs without being addicted, it is the society and the stigma where you are inserted that makes you more prone to get an addiction or not. Addiction for other things like facebook are enhanced if not created by lack of social interaction (or the possibility to), and this is merely social.
In last, at least immediately the consumption of whatever drug should stop be seen as a delict/ crime.
No way. Personally I hate all drugs.
Personally I don’t think you should put your personal choice in front of the freedom of everyone else (The irony is strong in this one).
YES
Yes
Yes legalized and taxed so more money will come at budget.
yes
Stop making millionaires! Legalize and tax it!!!
Canabis encourages deprivation of freedom through slavery of women, crime and murder for profit of psychopathic Satanists. Capitalism is not materialism and materialism destroying society and ethic. Canabis encourages terrorism.
Says the fool who’s never smoked a joint in his life.
Dealers dont ask ID
One of the major problems corcerning public health, is what is sold in drug trafic. Canabis made to strong or sprinkled with other substances is a major factor of Psychiatric desease. If things were controled it might be diferent and safer for the population at large. On the other hand we all know that consumption is not going to stop. To legalize cannabis is a health isue, and I think it s for the beter and wiser to control what is smoked, than the current situation.
Yes
yes.
yes
Freedom should be illegal.
Yes. Cannabis should be legal and treated like alcohol. Hard drug users should be treated like patients, not criminals. All prohibitionists should be tortured and killed. The world would be a much better place.
Yes. Because alcohol is available for sale. I am rational. I am against hypocrisy. If alcohol was banned, I would have had no problem with illegal weed.
Yes. Alcohol is legal and availavle for sale just about anywhere. I am a rationalist. I hate hypocrisy. If alcohol was illegal, I would have no problem with weed being illegal. It would not surprise me if the people here who said no drank alcohol. Would just prove my utter contempt for human beings.
Yes, legalize it ! Let people (not government) decide what to use, it is their bodies we are talking about.
Only if properly taxed and use taxation money for educating the negative effects of elicit drugs, and all of the legal biochemical and/or synthetic industry substances! Taxes must be used to prevent addiction and control quality as well as educating quantative responses and mental issues in relation to.. All Under control of authority, but idiots~!
Europeans are too spineless, humourlesa and subserviant to legalise the good herb. I always laugh when people say Europe is more forward thinking than the rest of the world. There are cannabis cafes in The Netherlands, but that is it! Most Europeans still see weed as a “dirty” drug while consuming unhealthy amounts of alcohol. You are so deluded it is almost funny. Cannabis has genuine medical and spiritual benefits, unlike alcohol that only causes confusion and violence. Yet it is the more individualist United States who are leading the way to end the decades long anti-cannabis fearmongering propaganda and full out legalize. Go have another drink, euro-trash.
I live with a very painful condition severe Fibromyalgia which I have had for 27 years. It has attacked and destroyed my thyroid, my pineal gland, my thymus and my nervous system. Every day I am in chronic pain, think flu pain but 10 times worse. Last year I developed another symptom of which there are 200+ associated with Fibromyalgia, this new symptom is called Allodynia. Allodynia causes intense pain of the nerve endings in your skin. It meant even the lightest of touch even just lightly brushing the hairs on my arms caused excruciating pain but this wasn’t just on my arms this was all over my body, the soles of my feet and my scalp. Walking, lying down, sitting, there was no escape or relief from the pain. Imagine having every part of your body severely sunburnt while your body felt as if you had run a 50 mile marathon the day before and you have some idea of the pain. I have to take a battery of painkillers but they start to loose their effectiveness and though I’ve managed to put off going on to morphine I know I will have to go on it soon. After morphine looses its effectiveness there are 2 more pain killers that are stronger but then that’s it. My Allodynia started to subside after being put on a high dose of ametryptalyne an antidepressant as well as a high dose of levothyroxine to compensate for my inactive thyroid. Now my kidneys are failing due to all of the medications I have to take and have dropped 25% in less than 4 months. I turn 50 this year, I developed this illness at the tender age of 23. It has robed me of all quality of life and now the Allodynia is not responding as wee as it was so what do I do? Take more medication to destroy what’s left of my kidney’s? The scientific community discovered this illness is genetic especially through the female line. Too late for my now 20 year old daughter who also has this illness and has been I’ll since she was 15. Both my daughter and I scored A* in our A levels, we are both very bright, clever women in physical pain everyday and while you might think painkillers get rid of all the pain let me tell you that they don’t! They merely take the edge off however there is one thing that does KILL ALL THE PHYSICAL PAIN and DOESN’T DAMAGE THE KIDNEYS and that’s medical marijuana however if i was caught with even the tinniest amount i would go to prison where I live, does that seem fair to you? I can even dance if I take medical marijuana! To those who say all drugs should be banned I say this PRESCRIPTION MEDICINE ARE DRUGS TOO SO SHOULD WE STOP PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION TOO????? My daughter is at University, struggling her way through while being in pain, please have a heart those who say no, give people like me and my daughter the opportunity to dance and smile and laugh again I beg of you. God knew what he was doing when he created all life including the life of the marijuana plant but he didn’t create the man-made toxic chemicals responsible for triggering my autoimmune illness. Let me have Gods medicine, unadulterated by man. A pure medicine that won’t destroy my daughters kidneys too. It may be too late for me but it doesn’t have to be too late for my daughter. Chronic painful conditions such as ours are on the rise, marijuana is cheaper and healthier unless you really enjoy seeing other people suffer please say YES TO THE LEGALISATION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA. Thank you for reading and may you and your families be blessed with good health.
I agree
Yes. The war on drugs has failed….awfully. If you studied why it was made illegal in the first place you would understand the folly of prohibition.
yes it should be legal both for medical/recreational use. alcohol and nicotine is by far worse but both are legal.
Definitely. More people died from taking selfies than overdosing on Cannabis. I believe that preventing people from smoking a weed is a human rights issue.
Yes,it should be legal and the prohibition does much more damage than cannabis could ever do.I have been using cannabis for 6 years and I can tell you that the addiction is only psychological and by psychological I mean like addiction to have a shower every morning.The prohibition does only harm because most of people who buy drugs in the street get low quality stuff,rat poison and other things that can harm your health much more seriously.But the worst thing is that a lot of people go to jail and ruin their life there,become criminals.For example in Lithuania you can get 15 years of jail for cannabis possession and that is even worse than murder.PEOPLE PLEASE DO NOT BE IGNORANT,THIS IS REAL PROBLEM AND IT MUST BE SOLVED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE !!!!!!
Of course cannabis and especially medical cannabis should be legalised, why should we have to be fed opiates for pain? Why should we be forced to become addicted to big pharmas poisons? Its all down to the pressure and money Big Pharma generates and gives to politicians. Cannabis can help and cure so many ailments its time the rest of Europe followed Canada, Parts of USA, Mexico, Portugal, Australia-and the list goes on.
Of course! It is a lot less dangerous than alcohol, tobacco and painkillers. Coffee is more addictive.
Yes. Simply the fact that several U.S. states have shown themselves to be more liberal than Europe should be a sign that this move is long overdue here…
Thank you for the lovely messages of support. I’m here at 2am in the morning unable to sleep even though I feel tired. I have a swollen lymph gland at the back of my head near my ear and the pain is excruciating, even though I have taken 60mg of Oxycodone and 1000mg of Naproxin It hasn’t had any effect on the pain. Pain which feels like abssess pain in the back of my skull and the top of my ear. I’ve even tried a heated wheat bag which hasn’t had any effect. We googled and its associated with autoimmune illnesses which my doctor thinks my Fibromyalgia is as I responded physically well to steroids but mentally I went off the rails on the steroids and had to stop. The steroids made me balloon in size but in all honesty I don’t care about that I just want to be pain free or at least have some real relief . I bet if the legalization of Cannabis/Marijuana was put to the vote with only people with painful conditions like mine the results would be near 100% in favour, even if it was put to the vote of Jo public it would still be over 50% in favour too and I bet that anybody who said NO to Cannabis/Marijuana would be people who don’t live with constant pain or have to watch a loved one with chronic pain. I have given up on ever having a normal life or being able to socialise but how I miss being able to walk my dog without fearing it will leave me bedridden for a fortnight due to the extra pain it would cause. While it helps to exercise to release endorphine’s which help with pain it’s easier said than done when the extra pain caused by walking outstrips any benefits of the extra endorphine’s. Currently I am typing with the lightest of touches on my tablet using different fingers for each key, with my elbows lifted to a 90° from my body to try and avoid aggravating my allodynia. Fibromyalgia effects my every minute of my life, even when person sleeps with Fibromyalgia we are robbed of the level 4 restorative deep sleep we need and for those who think Fibromyalgia is psychosomatic you should read about the physiological differences in a normal brain compared to someone with fibromyalgia and also look at shunt cells on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet in someone with fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia has been proven to attack the endocrine system (90% of fibro sufferers end up with hypothyroidism) and antibodies have been found in the pineal gland and the thymus and it also attacks the nervous system and the sympathetic nervous system too. Please put pressure on your countries politicians, together we can have this wonderful natural medicine legalized and for anybody reading this thinking Oh she just wants to get high’, I actually hate feeling high but it only takes a very tiny amount to rid my body of pain, and when I say tiny I about 1/100 of one bud which is equal to one puff of a very very weak joint and all my pain is gone for 8-12 hours and even Oxycodon can’t do that!
Cannabis should unquestionably be legalised. Big fat YES from me, cannabis helps save lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgfF2YY_zY
The EU has no such power,”in theory” you forget that each country is still SOVEREIGN!
Yes!
it should be banned it is the worst of all.
Well! After the tremendious results in a lot of countries, take just the United states of america as example. This is a question who should not be asked.
YES!!!
Yes.
Cannabis should be banned everywhere. Frontex should be stronger to fight drug dealers ,illegal migration and crime…….mind your business it s not a european issue..
Meaningless debate…when all the other issues (economy, defense, environment, etc..)…then we can debate cannabis legalization
Of course it should.
There is no logical reason to allow alcohol while banning a drug that similar – which is even less dangerous.
But you can’t teach logic to conservatives, As they don’t know how to use it.
They don’t need reason, they just follow their own manipulated emotions, which is why Europe is in the middle of a huge crisis right now.
Yes
Yes
No, definitely not. It’s an extremely damaging drug.
seriously ? Go read something, please.
I take it you don’t drink alcohol then? The drug that’s been scientifically proven to be over 100 times more harmful than cannabis
No.
No.
Let goverments INFORM people about the effects of susbtances, but let people CHOOSE for themselves.
Yes! Cannabis is a powerful anti-cancer medicine!
Yes definitely , on 19-21 april ONU have discussion on legalize weed all over the wold , so this is the normal way for the future .
YES! Better than wine etc.There is also medical canabbis which is a great medicine for heavy diseases.
Wow!!!! That would be a huge step toward the fall of the remaining borders above all the ones obsessing our prohibitionist ruling classes
Assisted suicide. Prostitution. Cannabis. Yes, yes and yes. The only reason such things are illegal right now is due to unreasonable moralist dogmas that prevent us from discussin social, political and economical matters in term of utility and with reason as our main guiding light. Will making it illegal stop it ? No. Does cannabis consumption by certain individuals hurt anyone or go against their own free will ? No. Legalizing cannabis will stop illegal drug networks or at least make it harder for them ? Yes. Not legalizing it has more negative consequences than legalizing it ? Yes, because this way Young people are come in the situation of buying cannabis from unknown people and one cant even be sure if that is cannabis, this is how they end up with serious health problems and social ostracization. This is how political decisions should be made. Not keeping it illegal just because it seems immoral for someone.
greece should do it…it could solve its financial issues on multiple levels
Should alcohol or cigarettes be illegal?
Yes criminal arent be soo much and turisam will be bigger
No
Ilegalisation of cannabis is one of the greatest crimes against society. Cannabis can promote a significant number of different industries and is the most harmless (and wonderful) recreational drug. Thanks to prohibition, huge amounts of money are going to criminal gangs, instead of working tax payers.
Definitely what ever rule comes up needs to apply to the entire EU. We need to stop with every region thinking they’re still souvreign countries like before they joined the Union and do their own thing .
Totalitarism should go away from Europe ir EU is democratic.
Simple explanation of totalitarism to idiots:
“I’m on diet, so you can’t eat this cake!!”
Yes, and the money will go to the countries indeed to some pocket
legalize all the drugs!
what should be legalized across europe are proper democratic and accountable structures…how about that question, then we can look at various pieces of legislation or is Junker et al setting up a nice crop for the corporations to buy up and sell once he sells all of our democracy to the unnecessary TTIP treaty that no one wants and everyone fears.
yep
Oh why not, its a personal choice, who has a right to tell you what you can do with your own body
No
From a purely public health perspective – cannabis should not be freely available.
It may be helpful as pain relief where other medication does not help. But it should not be available for recreational use any more than strong prescription pain medication. It is just as addictive.
Given its stamp as a semi-socially acceptable recreational drug it is even more questionable. People need to detangle discussion of it’s purpose as a prescriptive medication (where it may do more good than harm) and as a recreational drug (where it may do more harm that good).
If Europe rules also education about drugs, YES!
That is another reason we should be out of this crazy club. Why should we dictated to. People can Think for themselves
They know the risks it is up to the individual. I am speaking as a none smoker but I do not wish to dictated to
Anyway hope we are not in the EU soon. Go and preach to someone else
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of course! alcohol is 114 times more dangerous than cannabis. but it is legal!
Of course it should be legalised. History has taught us that is not prohibitionism that saves people, but knowledge and culture!
Ah it’s not legal?
Why no?
I think everybody should be free to suicide or to be addicted of substances: why not legalize any kind of drugs?
Personally I consider a drug even smoking and alcohol.
Personally I don’t drink alcohol neither smoking, is offensive for myself.
So, who likes to be slave of drugs, should be free…
About cannabis anti cancer yes should be prepared in many ways, tablets, tea,… and sold in pharmacy
Attention aux autres car prendre le volant en ayant fumé est aussi dangereux que de rouler bourré. Je pense qu’il faudrait d’abord en calculer les conséquences pour les autres et qu’il ne faut surtout pas se précipiter sur ce sujet.
Yes!!!!
ofcourse
A very, but very relevant question
Yes!
No. Do not smoke canabis. Take care about your helth. Please do it.
Ironic because millions of people rely on it to take care of their health
Prohibition has always been a fail, as seen with alcohol in the early 20th century for the USA. Legalizing would supress the european cities suburbs’ gangs and terrorists main income, cut the police and justice spendings of more than 200 billionsa year for the EU members, make possible a new tax income as for alcohol that’d repair some of the health prejudices from its use, allow to check quality/dangerosity. Of course it should be for adults only, and with information and warning at the sale spots considered legal only if state approved and registered, and on the product about risks (for drivers, schyzophrenics, health, behaviour …) .Meanwhile any black market behaviour should be severly repressed. European cannabis farming under state approval would also create activity, tax income, and stop the money bleed that empties our countries and feeds north-african and arabic dangerous heavy weaponed mafias, usualy supporting/ coworking with islamists organisations.
of course it should be. There are NO harmful effects if used moderately, many health benefits, no one has ever died from marijuana, has huge potential to boost economies and and job-growth, a healthy alternative to many prescription drugs, and finally, if nothing else, thousands of time safer and healthier than alcohol and cigars, yet these are legal.
Yes, obviously! It should never have been criminalized in the first place!
Keeping drugs out of the hands of the of the criminals is better for the users as it will be regulated by the government making it safer for the users, currently people who smoke cannabis take a chance on what they are buying and don’t know if what they are smoking has been contaminated with other things that dealers would put into the weed to increase the weight, which causes more harm to the user, you hear the stories from people saying that cannabis use is a gateway drug and could lead to mental health issues, well that might be the case for a few but the majority of cannabis users are regular people who go to work everyday and prefer to come home and smoke a joint rather than drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes which kills a lot more people in our society but the government don,t moan about that because they know how much they get in tax from cigarettes and alcohol, I myself have worked in the public sector and have smoked for the last twenty years and prefer to smoke a joint after my working day. decriminalising cannabis would be safer to the user and the tax that would be made from the sale of cannabis could help the government give more money to the health sector which is in need of extra funding not to metion the money that could be put back into the communities creating jobs and businesses for people, money for schools, emergency services, the list goes on, I don’t want to be told how I should live my life it’s my choice if I smoke cannabis, I’m not killing anyone else but myself which is my choice.
Yes. It’s high time.
Should nature be legalised across Europe?Should herb be legalised across Europe? Should freedom be legalised across Europe?Should green eko fuel be legalised across Europe?Mafia desides yes?
we debate , Pfizer and Bayer decides! :|
nope.. it’s degenerate.
But medical cannabis should be legal.
Much more worst is wodka and generaly alcohol. Weed is ok when You use it responsibly ;)
Wait… What? Is it still illegal?
Oh man… I have run now. I forgot something on my car trunk.
un conto è la droga per uso farmaceurico e un conto è per uso personale. Legalizzare la droga assolutamente NO , i cittadini devono essere tutelati da comportamenti o “vizi” non buoni per la società . Non serve il tempo per far capire , una cosa sbagliata è SBAGLIATA . Quale società vogliamo per i nostri figli ? Disoccupati, senza istruzione e drogati ??? E’ questa la società che la UE costruisce ?
Not only should cannabis be legalized across Europe, but drug policy in general should be based on a more scientific approach. The current system is woefully unbalanced: drugs like cannabis or ecstasy are criminalized while alcohol and nicotine, which have been proven to be considerably more dangerous and harmful to adults, are legal. Things like the sacking of Prof. David Nutt, former Head of the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, who repeatedly pointed out that government legislation flies in the face of scientific risk-based harms assessments, are unacceptable. Prohibition has not worked, unless criminalizing thousands of harmless users was the goal in the first place (for example, the prohibition of cannabis in the U.S. in the 1970s was used as a means to prosecute members of the pacifist and civil liberties movements).
governement should stay out of such things. If a responsible adult wants to smoke weeds, that’s up to him to decide. just like somebody chooses to have a drink of alcohol. The state tends to intervern into too many topics.
And I don’t smoke weeds….
Obviously not. Period. :)
So I take it you don’t care for the millions of people suffering from health issues that could be helped with medicinal cannabis?
Pretty selfish of ya
the only reason for the ban being the influential pharmaceutical lobby… it should be legalised… If the ban is kept though it should also be spread to alcohol, caffeine and a couple of hundred other products we use on a daily basis (including mobile phones) so we don’t feel they are taking the piss with a health argument…. which only someone with a brain equivalent to a brexiters could believe…
yes for the medical one
Yes. Haven been proved to help in many illnesses from epilepsy to cancer. It is absurd and only of interest to pharmaceuticals to keep it illegal. Don’t understand why liquor, which helps in nothing, is legal. And cannabis is not. Legalize it now in all of EU.
I don’t understand what’s the difference between alcool&cigarettes and cannabis… both are not very good for your health, both are addicting… and yet alcool and cigarettes are ok for the states to make money on. Can anyone explain me? Because I don’t get it. Also, legalizing cannabis would mean stopping illicit activities… as you may know most of the money mob makes come from drug dealing… With the legalisation who smokes it will continue to do it but they will know that what they smoke is controlled… the ones who don’t usually smoke it would continue to do so. I don’t see it… cannabis to me is just like tobacco…
The difference is cannabis has been proven to be over a hundred times safer than alcohol, it has a multitude of medical properties which again have been proven by America and many other countries. It’s not chemically addictive like tobacco and alcohol, only behaviour addictive which can be said for many things, chocolate etc where people with addictive personalities a prone as they are with many things.
The point I’m tryint to make is you’re comparing them like they are the same, they are not, cannabis is far safer and has many many health benefits, alcohol and tobacco kill thousands/millions of people and alcohol has a multitude of promblems that come from it’s use, please don’t compare them like they are they same.
Yes you’re right though as to why it isn’t legal when alcohol and tobacco is, the reason for that in brief is reefer madness (propaganda from the 40’s) and then the war on drugs Richard Nixon started in the 70’s. These things helped shape the way we see cannabis today and why it is a taboo but neither were scientifically accurate and were purely for other agendas, it’s worth reading into, but from unbiased sources as biased information against cannabis has filled the media and other sources
It will be legalized anyway it’s the future
ZEHİRİN KÖKÜNÜ İÇESİNİZ İNŞALLAH…SERSEMLER..!!!
No
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Eventually all druggies would overdose & so freeing the world of its meaningless 3rd of druggie deadbeats, so yes legalise it & do us all a favour.
Darwin’s theory of evolution at work.
Yes. Let the people smoke that, if they want. Once it was sayed… give to the people what they want.
Hello.
As person who tried difrent marihuana types in Holand I can say..yes its 100% better then daly alcohol usage,but smoking every day makes you less productive and uts demages your nerves in long time period.
But I hope that some day,marihuana will be legal only for personal usage,not in public but self grown limited amount and self smoked,in own home or in special places like cofie shops.
Because I will say this : gandza,its not a drug,its dosent make you addicted,belive me I been smoking for 6 years and one day I woke up and didnt wanted to do that,so it means it dosent make you go crazy,you can just not do it.
+its make sex better,food taystier,music souds better,it keeps you calm,and talk about intrests with other peoples.
So better ban alcohol or raise price on beer…but legalize it, only from 21 years old persons, so when I will be old I can grow my plant in my garden and enjoy my pension plan :)
yes. very usefull vegetal.
O YESSS !!!
Yes!
for shure
Yes
No !!!
Do you think freedom ever done anything good?
Allowing people to choose is bad thing.
P.S. Everybody who understands economy knows that
if there is no supply,
then demand is also gone.
20 years in prison is not enough, we need lethal injections or better kill them with what they are selling.
I can’t tell if this is a troll or not….
but you can’t kill cannabis drug dealers by giving them what they are selling, as hard as you can try no person has every died from a cannabis over dose
Yes!
madem özgürlükler ülkelerisiniz tabi serbst ve yasal olmalı (yes) evet. Türkiye ye uğrasın bu yasa ;)
Should be under medical control.
I thought it was legal in Brussels only. ;) No, leave it to the states to decide how to regulate it. This is not important as a European issue. I know European Parliament is bored to death and needs things like this not to fall asleep. Give the European Parliament real decision-making power so they do not have to spend all their time researching the sugar content of marmelade and other silly things they are now associated with.
Nope.
Yes
Los demás respiramos su humo y somos sus víctimas de accidentes de trafico y otros
YESssssssssssss!!!!!!!!
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More druggies would have said yes but they are all busy drooling like stoned idiots over some green bush or other.
Yes, ans smoking tobbaco in pubs
Are you all addicted in Parliament or what ? Is it your big concerning now?https://www.facebook.com/BBCLondon/videos/1196695187038843/?pnref=story
YES.
It interferes with the brain activity and health….what a future!
The question is when smoking will stop killing? When smoking will stop taking the needed breath for the next important move in life? That is not hurting anyone if the cycle in the cosmos give us enough time to be enough outside smoking and have the needed resource to heal or live it. People may be humane and worthy with it or not but how will we decide? Human-to-human relation/s, human/s-to-nature relation/s and thats it. And what is it in details? It is that massive life supporting tissue called fulfilled time- for example. 1,2,3 and etc. plus zero. Have a nice time with ice and without.
Of course…W Spinelli!!!!
Yes.
Yes.
What about the morphine? its all natural!
We either to full drugs or strongly against it, there is no middle ground for me on that topic. You either go with killing yourself with heroine, coke, cocaine, alcohol or you do not do drugs at all.
DON’T BE A PUSSY weed smoker, take it or leave it.
We have enough vices as it is no need to add more. Alcohol is legal and it’s not going well. I started string when i was 13 sometimes at school..
what about caffeine? is the most used drug in the world and is more addictive and could cause more health problems than cannabis, and is legal? also..many countries have achieved reducing alcohol and tobacco use, the most dangerous and harmful drugs of them all only with education and prevention programs, not making it illegal, because criminalizing any drug use does not work. simple as that. whether you like it or not people will continue use drugs, all of them, the only difference is that you can continue making rich the criminal gangs and putting at risk your family and friends by leting criminal control the business and letting your kids using unknown adulterated substances, or you can once for all control and regulate the drug market given proper advice and monitoring quality and use, and promoting prevention of harms. if you decide keep supporting criminalization of drugs, you are cooperating with the criminal market and in part responsible for destroying the lives of many people. when you use alcohol you known exactly how much of it is in any bottle, so you can decide if you want a weak beer watching a football match or a shoot in a night out, is your decision and your responsibility. anybody else must ” trust” a drug dealer… so yes, is your fault for leaving this trade in their hands.
Of course it should be legalised. There are million reasons to do so. At the same time I would ban advertisment on it, but at least all the substances on the market would be regulated and have good sanitary standards.
Users are plenty even with substances being illegal and nowadays they are not safeguarded by the current legislation, which in turn criminalizes them.
it appears that there is huge demand and supply. It’s legality or otherwise is irrelevant to those who use.
Anything else???? Christ’s sake, no!!!
well only for healthy reasons
yes
if pain killers , alcohol , etc are legal then sure yes …after all we are responsible adults aren’t we ? down with the hypocrites
No! Very dangerous, and who has even a child, will say the same’
yes, it should.
Stop stupid propaganda !!!!! YES!!!!
Definitely yes.
I think that is not the time to legalise! Europe has more urgent problems to think about.
I guess that european reality will call its neccessity
YUPE
Yesssss!
No
Grow your own, business destroys beautiful things.
that is right, Javier! decriminalize personal growth, criminalize profit!
Yes
No
It has worked well in the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain with its Canabis Social Clubs experiment. Would rather canabis was legalised and alcohol made more restrictive.
yes…only to destroy the major pharmaceutical giants -and thats why its never gonna happen-
If people want to be zombies – its their own problem.
Legalise it, Europe!!
Yes, cannabis should be legalized, regulated and taxed. Review after review of the empirical evidence on cannabis use has shown that while there are health risks associated with cannabis consumption – most importantly mental health risks for adolescent users -, these health risks are considerably inferior compared to those of tobacco or alcohol consumption. In fact, there is ample evidence that the very restrictive classification of cannabis is in part due to the tobacco industry’s lobbying. In 2008, the UK’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), led by Prof. David Nutt, repeatedly urged the government to adjust its drug policies to the drug’s effective harmfulness to users and others, including cannabis (http://www.thelancet.com/cms/attachment/2001010052/2003786743/gr2_lrg.jpg). Moreover, a large body of evidence shows a broad range of applications for cannabis as a medical and recreational drug, with some of the testimony being quite impressive (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAdDdTZuNA8). Each year, European governments spend millions of euros on the investigation, arrest and prosecution of thousands of cannabis users and producers and on the destruction of cannabis plantations. Meanwhile, the public health system is repeatedly burdened with the necessity to treat cannabis consumers who were sold some toxic garbage instead of real cannabis because there is little to no consumer safety in the market.
Let’s turn these burdens into opportunities by levying a tax on cannabis sales, restricting its sale to specialized shops and pharmacies, and licensing commercial production. In light of the current deficiencies, it should be easy to allocate some of the revenues from these policies to public health campaigns that effectively inform users, especially youth, about the health hazards associated with regular young-age cannabis use.
Yes it should, since alcohol is way more toxic than cannabis and it’s legal, there is no excuse, expect the puritanism of the politicians and it’s people not to legalize it.
Yes
Of course it should. How are we still so bloody primitive?
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Only druggies say yes.
Legalize it, and you get another zombi-creating weapon in your arsenal.
Yes
Yes, regulate it and tax it, people will smoke will smoke, so let the government demystify it and make some momey like states in the US dl
For sure!!!!
Νο
Yes.
Prohibitionism has failed, this is a fact. We are still fighting with this because mafia members (and politicians) want to make money from the illegal trade and because of the vice of the religious organizations, first of all the catholic church, of saying what people have to do and what people don’t have to do. And idiots and puritans follow this rules without asking questions to themseves. LEGALIZE NOW
Για την κλωστική κάνναβη και την ιατρική χρήση της κάνναβης ΝΑΙ
για την ψυχαγωγική χρήση της κάνναβης το συζητάμε.
Όμως όπως και να έχει ΔΕΝ αρκεί ένα απλό όχι ή ένα απλό ναι. Χρειάζεται ενημέρωση και συζήτηση, χωρίς προκαταλήψεις και ψευδή αξιώματα.
Η κλωστική και ιατρική κάνναβη ως παράγοντες για την ανάπτυξη και την απασχόληση
http://waves.pirateparty.gr/node/1156
Κάνναβη, αλήθειες & ψέμματα
https://goo.gl/0g51Gc
Τα Κανναβινοειδή: Ο Απόλυτος Οδηγός για την Ιατρική Κάνναβη
https://goo.gl/J0WFK6
Η Πολιτική για την Κάνναβη: Προχωρώντας πέρα από το αδιέξοδο
https://goo.gl/F5gGA6
Ο ειδικός στον καρκίνο Δρ. Donald Abrams θέτει τα πράγματα στην θέση τους: Μπορεί η κάνναβη να θεραπεύσει τον καρκίνο;
http://waves.pirateparty.gr/node/1161
Νομιμότητα της κάνναβης ανά χώρα
https://goo.gl/5AIU6f
Οι θεραπευτικές ιδιότητες της κάνναβης και οι πραγματικοί λόγοι της απαγόρευσης
https://goo.gl/nUCD4R
Η επιστήμη επιδιώκει την αξιοποίηση των μυστικών της μαριχουάνας
https://goo.gl/AY0Bo7
Ειρωνεία σε όλο της το μεγαλείο, η σύγκριση της κάνναβης με τα φαρμακευτικά προϊόντα
http://waves.pirateparty.gr/node/1146
Μια φωτογράφος “εθισμένη” στο να αφηγείται ιστορίες μαριχουάνας
http://waves.pirateparty.gr/node/1127
Η Άνοδος και η Πτώση της Απαγόρευσης της Κάνναβης
http://waves.pirateparty.gr/node/1158
Ο Νόμος περί Φορολόγησης της Μαριχουάνας του 1937 των ΗΠΑ
http://waves.pirateparty.gr/node/1160
Μια σταγόνα κάθε φορά: Πώς το λάδι κάνναβης αλλάζει τη ζωή των ασθενών με καρκίνο στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο
https://goo.gl/L04DjD
Οργανισμός Υγείας του Καναδά – Ιατρική Χρήση της Μαριχουάνας
http://waves.pirateparty.gr/node/1138
Μάρκετινγκ για την Μαριχουάνα
https://goo.gl/BkHq4X
Η πολιτική για τα ναρκωτικά της Πορτογαλίας
https://goo.gl/ntrCL9
No
Yes but not as an addiction. Pure Hemp Oil mainly btween the upper gum on a daily basis, best done in the Morning and Then after a meal take a smoke of one Fag and before one sleeps a dab of Pure Hemp Oil, between the upper inner lip and gums !
No
Yes . A.q!
Yes cannabis is non addictive it has many properties and is 100 times safer than tobacco and alcohol
yes.
NO
Аll drugs should be legal.
If you think they are banned because the government cares about you..It’s all about profit.
http://guiadeltrabajo.com/educadora-jobsallovereurope-com-ofrece-puestos-alemania/
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Give all druggies all the drugs they want for free, then we can be rid of the worthless 3rd of society.
Darwinian theory in action.
Medical cannabis, yes. It is proven to help with certain medical conditions. And considering alcohol is deadly, and that is legal, why is not cannabis? Oh yeah, you can grow it for free.
Yeah
ye s… there’s no difference between cannabis and tobacco or alcool… both are addicting, both have influence on brain’s activity … so both or none.
Yes. It’s safer than alcohol and alcohol is legal – alcohol overdose without treatment is a sure death sentance.Never herd about canabis overdose though.Just the letal dose is impossible to intake.One should smoke kilograms in minutes to achieve that.
Yes
YES
How many peoples lives are ruined because of this idiocracy of a drug war?
For those who need, cancer patients, yes.
Well Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize. Wjhat do you think the answer to this debate may be? Ask Bob Dylan, what he thinks on the subject.
Yes
If not legalized, then at least ban the alcohol. The thing from which so many are dying daily is legal and we are debating over Medical cannabis. To those will hate me after i post this- you dont get high from Medical weed. :)
At least decriminalized. Personal choices should not be legislated.
YES.
Freedom is illegal.
Illegal plants, so they are from Mexico?
Yes and HEMP should be legalized to be used for all it’s purposes(clothing , material for construction etc…)!
Medical is ok,
Should alcohol and cigarettes be forbidden?
NO.
Yes just legalize that bloody cannabis so we get rid of freaking spice
Ofc yes
You should look at the Portuguese model, decriminalization of drugs like cannabis and light drugs while heavy drugs has an efficient drug treatment “Cato Institute”. One thing is for sure, if this idea has a way to implement. You should have an close and more efficient measures to other drugs that are lethal (ie, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, all those who cause dependency and literally destroy lifes). Cannabis it is less harmful than tobacco, plus consumers of cannabis does not need real tobacco, there are substitutes. (remembering a Netherlands experience).
what I believe it will work, it is a “Medical” consumption, like a way to “control” how much each is smoking. I don’t agree with the cannabis black market, I think the government or authority should take control of this market and enforce a tax.
Yes
For sure one of the most debated issue, weed “877 comments” so far :)
https://news.vice.com/article/ungass-portugal-what-happened-after-decriminalization-drugs-weed-to-heroin good post to read.
Every drug should be legal and taxed.
Yes
absolutely
Medical cannabis, yes!
Of course should, drugs sale’s will loose a lot of them profit.
Yes
Yes
Nooooooooooo!!!!
There is no legal or economic reason to keep it illegal. However I do understand people considering it an ethical dilemma and not an economic one. I believe it is just a matter of time before it is legalized
Stating that Cannabis users get violent and move on to harder drugs is simply not true. American statistics show that only 1 in 143 Cannabis users move on to cocaine, and the main reason for this is due to the dealers. They will ask the person buying Cannabis if they want something more powerful/strong so they are able to make more money. If it was to be regulated the sale of hard drugs would be nowhere near the sale of Cannabis. Also stating that Cannabis leads to violence is a lie. Cannabis sedates the user and calms them down. I have been around people both under the influence of Cannabis and alcohol and only the drunk people have ever lashed out in an aggressive manner, whereas the Cannabis users sit on the couch, eat and relax. The people committing violent crimes are not usually only under the influence of Cannabis, but alcohol as well.
It should be legal. I smoked for many years. Why is having a joint in the evening any worse than someone who chooses to have a couple of glasses of wine in the evening? I’ve always worked and never claimed benefits. I’ve always paid my taxes. I’m a great parent (unlike alcoholic parents). Yet the alcoholic parent who makes their kids life a misery isn’t breaking the law whereas I was a criminal. I haven’t smoked it for a couple of years now but that doesn’t change my view that there should be nothing illegal about someone who chooses to get home from work and have a smoke instead of a drink! So it doesn’t agree with some people. Neither do nuts but I’ve not seen them made illegal! Utterly stupid law.
The EU should make a stance against criminalizing drug users as drug abbuse is a medical condition and should not be seen as an illegal punishable act. A criminal record has never helped anyone to get out of their substance abbuse. There should be a common EU law that states this and forbiddes its member countrys from criminalizing people who basicly are sick and in need of help.
Yes, we should stop stigmatizing people who use drugs. It doesn’t benefit the society at all. Take the profit machine(cannabis) out of the criminals hand and tax it since all evidence points to less harms than both tobacco and alchohol.
Yes it should be legalized!
I havet ms, but my country dont let me use The right medicin “cannabis” for my pain. That is just wrong, help me!
cannabis should be legalised because it is no harm to the society as alcohol is legalised with tax but as alcohol is more harmful than cannabis and there has bin no deaths of it as there has bin many deaths of drinking alcohol but if cannabis did get legalised a high tax would be put on it but it would also stop alot of crime
that “gateway” statement is so old and debunked over and over.
Can we just skip that step from now on please?
1. Few people start with cannabis before alcohol. In my opinion alcohol possibly leads to cannabis use.
2. I have used all kinds of drugs growing up and so have everyone else in my social circut. One thing that is imposible not to observe are the effects of cannabis makes people usualy content with just staying at home. possibly feel its too much work to get another schedueld compound from the local dealer. This is anecdotal at best but what is not are the effects alcohol has on your judgement.
Growing up everyone i knew including myself used to buy a couple of beers and just wait until it sent everyone on a scoring speed or cocain frenzy.
Its easy to say “its a gateway” but where are the statistics? In my personal experience alcohol are ALWAYS present when someone takes the step to central stimulants.
3. The one thing i can think of thats remotely true about the gateway statement are the fact that if you smoke, you have just entered the realm outside of the law. Once thats done and you realize that what you have been told about cannabis was grossly over the top and in some cases just not true, do you think the next step is easier?!
The worst thing about cannabis in the “gateway” department, is the fact that its illegal… Think about it.
I speculate if more people switch from alkohol to cannabis less people will move on to heavier drugs.
I used about everything the dealer had between 16 and 25 when my first son was born. My life was mostly a mess and alod of grief and sorrow all around.
After my son was born i kicked all habbits and started training.
I started to try to learn all there was to learn about life and being a father.
At the age of 30 i started using cannabis again but this time i had become an adult. My way of relating to the compound is once all tasks for the day is completed including bedtime for the kids and its couchtime(phew… parents know what im talking about) its time to relax.
This mature way of using the plant has litteraly had no negative effects on my relation with my son, work, social, or love life what so ever.
If anything it has the possitiive effect that some hours of the day are just for me and i dont spiral in to depression anymore due to too much stress from coping with daily familylife. Balance has always been a problem for me but belive what you will but cannabis has realy helped me in that department.
To the editors: LITERALLY ALL of your cons contain false information!
1- Cannabis doesn’t promote schizophrenia in any way! There is a constant growth of cannabis consumers but schizophrenia is only among 1% of the population since 1970’s. If cannabis promoted schizophrenia there would a kind of rise of schizophrenia patients, right?
Also, the listed dangers are due to the bad quality of the drug, because the black market “cuts” the drug. E.g. they use hairspray to make it heavier.
Clean weed won’t harm anybody if not abused, like every fucking thing else.
2- Cannabis doesn’t containt any substance like nicotine which makes a person addicted to it. It’s a mind set whether you LIKE to abuse the drug or not like playing too much video games. That can’t be an argument against it because that literally applies to every substance one can consume or a behaviour – you can abuse everything.
3- Legalizing cannabis WILL stop drug gangs. Do you see alcohol dealers after the end of the alocohol prohibition? No. Also, why should somebody buy from a shaby dealer when there is a quality-guranteed shop around the corner?
How come a pot head will commit a violent crime? Please state a source of that research. Most they’ll do is rob a McDonald’s, lol.
4-Weed DOESN’T lead to worse IF legal. Consumers come in contact with harder drugs BECAUSE it’s illegal. Drugdealers don’t always sell only weed.
They give a sample of speed, cocaine etc.
The availability of harder drugs in Europe is the lowest in Netherlands where cannabis is legal. I believe it was something around 10% whereas the availability of harder drugs in other european countries are somewhat around 25%.
I’m not smoking weed but this propaganda against cannabis is just brutal.
WAKE UP EUROPE
Exactly right. All the cons are wrong. I don’t know who wrote the post, but there is a blatant manipulative bias from it.
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it’s sad to think so sick a 14-year sentence for selling someone cannabis to someone underage whether you do it not to get the same time with alcohol I would have to give a child alcohol and then rape them PS I’m sure I could paroled how are system works is absolutely Ludacris
Some say smoking cannibis is a ‘victimless crime’ yet the smell of it is so diagusting and nausiating to a none user that it should not be legal to smoke it in public places. Unlike cigarettes, the stenxh hangs in the air for HOUR around a spot where it has been smoked. You cannot even enjoy a walk in the local park without having to breathe it in long after the smokers have gone away. What about the rights of non-smokers (of cannibis) to not have to be ‘assaulted’ by the stench of this noxious substance? Not to mention the obviously paranoid state of heavy users. Recently a car mounted the pavement close to me. It missed me but made me jump. When the driver staggered out he stank of cannibis and so did his car. He didn’t look in a normal state of mind at all. It is frightening to think it may be made legal. I.find it worse than alcohol.
Saying cannabis is less harmful that nicotine and alcohol, is just repeating the marketing line that drug pushers use to try and persuade people to buy their drugs.
Most scientific studies agree cannabis is harmful, causing memory loss,loss of empathy, schizophrenia, and unprovoked violence in heavy users.
The medicinal element in cannabis can be removed and has been used in tests. However the users did not like it, even though it still acted as a pain killer etc. They just didn’t like it because the high was missing. That just suggests that the addiction to the drug is much more potent that first thought.
The Netherlands does not know what the outcomes of its experiment with legal cannabis is. They still have lost of drug problems, that have not gone away. In fact they have more problems with harder drugs.
Drug pushers want cannabis to be legal, because it is easier to push the drug onto your people, if they can show it being bought from an official supplier. Once they are hooked on cannabis, its easier to move onto stronger cannabis, and then onto harder drugs like crack or cocaine. Right now dealers start their victims on alcohol and cigarettes, however it is harder to move them to cannabis.
So they answer is no. Do not legalise cannabis, in fact make the sentences harsher for dealers, and concentrate on helping the addicted victims.
want to try some product?
It should be legalised. The government shouldn’t ban things just because some people lack self control. Weed isn’t addictive. It can be habit forming, but so can Many things if you don’t use self control and education yourself about the risks, and the things you’re taking. We need to push for more personal responsibility not less.
Adults should be able to explore their own life as they see fit. If we improve education and provide safe places to use drugs, in general. Then everyone will be the better for it. Look at the Neatherlands, they’re better off. People who use drugs are safer, and better able to learn about drugs, including weed, and many learn that they don’t like it.
The history of medical marijuana cannabis goes back for thousands of years. It was illegal only in many countries during the 20th century. In the past 20 years in the US, the legalization pros and cons of medical marijuana have been intensely debated as it has become legal to use it in 20 states and the District of Columbia.
When one attempts to legalize marijuana, who will be the gatekeepers here, to ensure that very young persons are not exposed to a drug that is known to be the gateway for other more harmful drugs? It is irresponsible for countries to want to compromise mental health and stability for economic gain and advantage. As a psychologist, I have seen the psychotic derailing of many young persons, who are never really able to get a foothold again of their lives, especially after continued usage. Let us revisit the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana in a holistic way, and include the statistics of the mental health practitioners!
The Gatekeepers would be the Government of course as it should only be available upon prescription and Cannabis by itself is not a gateway drug,it’s the people currently selling the drug illegally that are the current Gatekeepers which s why it needs changing so that as a medicine it’s more accessible but less accessible on the black market
By what is happening in many countries around the world and in Europe it is not a question if it should be legalised …it is a question of when and how the EU will stop lagging behind the times and do what it is good in doing:legalise and regulate what is an emerging unstoppable market. We like it or not cannabis was there before us, and its not te evil they painted, and its not going anywhere…so politicians, stop pretending you never used it and do your job.
The cannabis should be legal to everyone from age 18…
I’m a recreational user for half of my life (15 years) and it doesn’t affect me in a bad way…
If tobacco (and especially alohol) is legal, I don’t see a reason why cannabis wouldn’t…
…If one wants to use it in any way, he will, no matter if it’s legal or not…
Whatever is decided, I’ll continue to use it whenever I want… Peace…!
I think y’all should shut up and listen to pascal because he has a good opinion abou this topic!
Yes,
We should legalized cannabis!
Marijuana is not used for recreation for all people. Medical Marijuana is a safe way to calm the senses in a case of mental illness and unrest.
Anon You forgot that medical cannabis (which is its correct term) also helps epilepsy and chronic pain
Would love to see it decriminalized. I think it’s about time
Yes! It is long overdue!
Why?
Yes, about time!
Cannabis is dangerous in a adolescent or adult with a Chemical disorder in the Brain. It may trigger, for instance schizophrenia, or bipolar disorders
Maria – but alcohol doesnt right?
To make more mental illnesses?!?? What is wrong with the world!?!!!!
Liz – so you’re saying all the legal perscriptions are better? Or alcohol is better? And you’re not even considering the money saved from OUR taxes wasted on the war on the specific plant, or the drop in organized crime, or the tax revenue to be made.
Mike – who said the alcohol is better? What kind of argument is it? Legalization of the organised crime is going to be actually. You think about taxes ( money) , I think about health of people. You all in general came with the same speech. :)) Drogs are drogs! I don’t want Zombies in this world!
If not then criminalize alcohol. Causes 100 times more harm.
Sure, I know people that went to prison, good people, because of this bs. There is no humanity in it. Actually, this policy is barbarism.
Good people don’t sell drugs
Stefania – are you sure?
If I have something that hurts you and I’m selling it, I’m not a good person even if i live in a country that for him is not a Even if selling drugs is my only job I’m always a bad person. It’s a matter of conscience trained
Yes and the money from it should go for fighting other drugs and help addicts
Yes, but controlled.
NO
It is a kind of a cure against joblessness. …only the good and the strong will remain….
Most definitely!
Yeah well, if you want more zombies do it!
Alexandra – someone’s uneducated
Mike – seriously? That might be you!
so you’re saying all the legal perscriptions are better? Or alcohol is better? And you’re not even considering the money saved from OUR taxes wasted on the war on the specific plant, or the drop in organized crime, or the tax revenue to be made.
Mike – maybe I didn’t understand your comment. Then I apologize.
Mike, legalizing drugs don’t take off organized crime, increase and worse. Organized crime will still hold its traffic and will sell it in the age group in which it is forbidden by creating huge damage to society (considering that a dealer state is immoral)
Asap in order to eliminate related crime and social problems
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/…/Prohibition_in_the_United…
Definitely!
Depend which one.
Sativa and Ruderalis should be fully autorised.
Indica should be under control.
Medical use should be autorized under control.
Smoking should be heavily taxed.
Defenetly yes
Definitely! As long as drinks with 60% alcohol are legal, which can easily lead in the short run and in the long run to a harm for the consumer and even to his/her death, cannabis should be legalized. From an economic perspective we would even have gains in terms of increased taxrevenues, reduced cost for the legal authorities and less prison population (which also causes opportunity costs as these people cant contribute to welfare).
Even from the ethical perspective I cant see a reason why cannabis is called a drug but vodka not.
Last night on BBC1 Question Time , A guy from the audience came out with a statement reflecting the recent come out from a UK MP stating that he had used illegal drugs!! He said the lawmakers are really law breakers , from that statement, everybody on the chosen panel admitted that at some point they had all used illegal recreational drugs!!!!! Like we didn’t really already know after hearing of rampant coke abuse amongst certain electorates. But hey what really rocks me is the total hypocrisy of it , Im severely disabled in permanent pain my consultants have no problem giving me Morphine and Fentanyl , plunging me into a depressive state so bad I twice attempted to end the legal opiate misery i was prescribed. I smoke weed, lots of it I have for years, it takes my pain away it enables me to sleep at night , It has not turned me into a freak or zombie nor acted like a gateway drug,, I hate opiates. The biggest laugh is that the UK produces over half of the worlds medical weed . The then Health minister Mrs Atkins spouted in debate that she is not convinced of the medical value of cannabis but then grants her husband a license to grow the stuff , The PM Theresa May, her husband has shares in GW pharmas that produce Sativex and other Cannabinoid medicines that supply the world but yet we in the UK cannot grow or smoke this natural wonder herb that has been used for thousands of years and helps so many people suffering different afflictions. I think once again its about money and control not what is right for the folk of the UK . We are not imbeciles please stop treating us as though we are.
If people actually took time and researched statistics they would find,, maybe a handful of Cannabis related deaths in the UK a few cases more for Cocaine related deaths , these things are both illegal but are used by millions of folk in the UK including MPs ,, but then check the figures for alcohol related deaths and prescription drugs ,, thousands and thousands and there LEGAL!!
well said my friend. Read it twice. Hope the pain eases.
Only for medical purposes.
Laws like these tend to provoce hatred against the police and state. It needs to be controlled and restricted to minimise harms….just like alcohol but more so recent tobocacco legislation. Keep out of kids way. Control supply, quality and risk through license and unlike USA ban advertising from the start. Tax and put the proceeds into education and harm prevention….rather than corruption and confrontation.
All drugs should be decriminalised.
I’m not anti-cannabis, if YOU want to smoke it fine….but I don’t.
It should not be legalized without also considering the impact on those who do not wish to be exposed to mind-altering substances. My neighbors smoke it, and it fills our house, garden and lives with wretchedness.
If it is to be legalized, there will need to be legal provision to enforce those smoking cannabis to ensure they do not expose others. What about my right NOT to inhale it?
Financial grants may be required for those who need to “smoke proof” their houses to protect their kids from their neighbors, for example the smoke from next door comes up through our floorboards! I will have to move to a new house to protect my child.
If cannabis were legalized would you also discount detached hermetically sealed houses, for the non-smokers?
Would you update building regulations to ensure air from joined properties cannot penetrate?
How would you protect children in their own gardens from exposure?
How would you handle or prevent exposure in public places?
Will more police be required to protect against stoned Drivers?
Tobacco is bad enough, and no-can control or effectively police that. Considering the same with a mind-altering substance seems absurd.
Weed makes me feel much better when i smoke it and nothing bad has happened to me so if we legalize it’ll will be the people who smokes it choice and if anything happens to them well then it’s they’re fault then, so legalize it so we don’t have to sneak around when smoking it
I personally love smoking weed especially in a bong. I think it should be illegal tho because i get so high and everything feels so boring without it. also i have unexplained memory loss so idk if thats a good thing but im pretty sure weed should be illegal so only i can smoke it and then die
Long overdue.
Not now please after the covid19 left us is that OK with everybody.
Definitely yes!
first legalise prostitution …..and bring it under purview of services…
Yes, so it won’t feed anymore the gangsters and stop be sold by the same dealers of hardcore drugs.
No! Please show people how many psychotic people resulted from using drugs!
alcohol, is that you?
if you use alcohol the effect is just during the usage of it. Instead there are a percentage of people that are sensitive to the first drug usage – even marihuana. After firt use they develop a irreversible brain damage leaving them with psychiatric diseases. If you dont‘t trust this info read the psychiatric speciality literature.
hahaha God forbid
No, No No
It is proved that çannabis alters brain of young people.. We could légalisé if we fight against it..
Yes. Here in the Netherlands the coffee shops were initially shut done due to Coronavirus but they were reopened
The reason drug dealers were already on the streets and who knows what they add
Is this a serious debating question at this hour? Besides it has been put forward again.
Legalize all drugs. You cant regulate chemistry and nature.
Should be part of the Green Deal
Before I give my answer I would like to say that I tried cannabis over 50 years ago but I haven’t used any now for over 6 years, and neither do I see myself using it again.
I would also like to say that I came to know by experience what many professors of psychology and psychiatry keep trying to warn others about: Cannabis can cause short term memory loss, anxiety, fatigue, loss of concentration, delusions, paranoia and much worse besides. However, what many of these professors seem unable to understand and acknowledge is that there can be a very beneficial side to cannabis, providing of course it is used with care…
It was over 30 years ago when I eventually came to realise that once the desired effect of cannabis had started to work, and when taken without alcohol, tobacco or any other drug or chemical or person for that matter that can so easily inhibit the ability of cannabis to raise one’s awareness to higher levels, not only does it become obvious that the senses become so much more improved and the mind so much more relaxed, but during the first hour, one can see and reason so much more as well. Besides this I noticed that when under its influence the values I was taught to respect and which so often caused me to reason and react as I did in various situations, no longer had the same hold over me. This in itself can be very dangerous but it can also be a very good thing: Being under the influence of cannabis as described allowed me to think and reason more deeply, vividly and freely without being subconsciously dominated by the views of others (good or bad) who throughout much of world history greatly influenced how the rest of us should think and behave. Like I said, cannabis can be very dangerous but it can also be a very good thing.
As far as I recall it was late 1985 or early 1986 that besides being able to think more freely and perceive more, I also remember how fascinated I became as new avenues of thought would keep opening up to me in ways I had not experienced before.
Before I go any further I should point out that because of world and family indoctrination, by the time I had reached my mid to late teens Darwinism and fascism had become firmly entrenched in my psyche, together with a very limited knowledge of Christianity. These views and influences then greatly controlled my behaviour and ways of thinking, steering my thoughts and actions in various ways for at least another two decades. Then in the early part of 1986 I came to understand what it really means to be deeply under the influence of cannabis (during the first hour only) without alcohol, tobacco or anything else that does so easily deny or ruin the overall mind expanding effect that cannabis can give; and it was during one of these these periods that I became entranced as I began to see quite clearly my thought process at work:
As computers stored and retrieved information, so I began to see more and more clearly a part of my own mind working in a similar but far more interesting way. As time seemed to slow down I became very much aware of my nerves conveying what they were sensing to my memory where this new information was being stored for later use. I could also see that much of this new information was being used in whatever thought process was in progress at the time the information came in. I could also plainly see that my thought process was largely made up from my memory constantly being scanned for relative or useful information that could be added to whatever the innermost ruling part of my conscious self was experiencing or dealing with at the time, and it also became clear that this ongoing process was often being carried out so that I might make the best possible decisions for both my short term and long term feelings of pleasure or ecstasy.
One evening however, whilst deeply under the influence of cannabis, I also came to realise that I didn’t really know what I believed in. Suddenly it seemed like there was nothing I could trust in any more. Even when the effects of cannabis had worn off I was still seeing how hopelessly lost and double minded I was, particularly when it came to politics, morality, religion, atheism and death. I think I may well have remained in that state were it not for the love I had for my two little children who in their times of innocence and naivety would love and trust in me. It was then from that lost state did I become obsessed to know just what the truth was and what or who I and my dear loved ones should prepare to face in the end.
After a long time thinking deeply whilst searching for an answer to my seemingly hopeless state of mind it did eventually become obvious to me there was a subtle but potent and perverse force greatly influencing my thoughts and behaviour called pride. I could see there was nothing wrong with pride when it helps us to evaluate our achievements, but as I eventually discovered there is something very dangerous about it when it so easily causes a man to value himself above others; and I was made very much aware that this pride was easily causing me to feel superior in some way to certain others. Not only was pride leading me to believe I was probably the most valuable when I compared myself to those others, but I could also then easily regard them with little respect, even at times with contempt.
It also became clear that from such a mindset it was easy for me to dismiss the true or wise words of others as being irrelevant, unimportant or untrue whenever their statements were seen to conflict with any of my own self-important desires and plans. I could also cheat on and lie to others who I did not care for and despise any who I perceived as a threat. As much as I was ready to deceive others for my own gain, so I was equally ready to deceive myself into thinking I wasn’t that bad a person. In fact, it was easy to think how good and right I was most of the time.
I also saw the half-truths and lies coming from politicians and news papers or any other kind of media, were easily welcomed by me as truth whenever they gave a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction. I was also made to see this vain and self deceiving way of thinking was working not only in myself but in those around me also, and for as much as our self first desires had become our needs so also did our cravings for more leave us more vulnerable and subject to the corruption of those most crafty and evil. Their lies would often become more easily accepted by us as truth and would therefore become easily woven into the memories of our minds that believed in those lies, and it was from our lie infested memories that our deductions, decisions and judgements were being formed. I eventually had to conclude therefore that whatever was being reasoned and perceived as truth and reality to minds corrupted by pride was all too often an illusion.
I also saw that this state of mind is to some degree the inherited scourge of us all, breeding contempt and hatred for the truth along with paranoia, conflict and destruction, just as the history of man will clearly testify. And I also saw a way to overcome this delusional disorder driving the human race headlong into the insane chaos and terror of its own making.
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So, should cannabis be legalised across Europe?
As far as I see, if people want cannabis enough they will get it anyway, so what’s the point in keeping it illegal?
May be one of the reasons is because the powers that be simply hate the idea of the masses thinking freely.
Thank you. Insightful.
Dagga should not be legalized i.this is due to the fact that in schools the number of drop outs may increase .many people may find it futile to go to shoool and rush to the cultivation of dagga.
Minors can get weed far easier in an illegal market. Be practical. I wondered long and hard about this but the kids already have access to weed, unscrupulous dealers. If they run out of weed they push heavier more potent drugs on your kids, the give the kid a stronger fix and thus cannabis gets labelled a gateway drug. Anyway take care. Oh I’m a drop out also.
One must first look at the history of cannabis. Why it was made illegal in the first place. Cannabis became Marijuana. People of colour were targeted. Education is key here. I live in Ireland and from what I see our public officials are way off the curve here. It takes the likes of Joe Rogan and his ilk to show us the way and I’m not just talking about Cannabis here. The world is changing for the better though we will find ourselves polarised at first sooner or later it will gel good with us. The people will decide. We now have the vehicle and the means thanks to the Internet. Good luck folks. Gonna be lots of good arguments.