12-09-2003 19:41									#1
	Police Urged to Chill Out on Cannabis Arrests Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Meanwhile, laws on marijuana not only vary from united state to united state, but differ within a given state.
How jackass is that ?
Why don't we just continue to jail people, instead of legalizing and taxing?
Like that makes a lot of damned sense.
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12 minutes ago
By Pete Harrison

LONDON (Reuters) - Police chiefs urged their officers Friday to take a more relaxed approach to cannabis in line with a new policy that will effectively leave Britons free to enjoy the drug in private.
The guidance came as Home Secretary David Blunkett handed Parliament a draft order to downgrade the drug from Class B to the low-risk Class C to allow police to focus resources on hard drugs like heroin.

The shift in policy is likely to take effect in January.
"There will be a presumption against arrest, except where public order is at risk, or where children are vulnerable," said Blunkett.
"After reclassification, most offences of cannabis possession by adults will result in a police warning and confiscation of the drug," he added.

Officers on the street would be left to decide the maximum weight at which cannabis smokers could claim their supplies were for personal use and not dealing, said Andy Hayman, drugs spokesman for the
Association of Chief Police Officers.
"If we start making statements about weights... those who deal in drugs will just make sure they've got possession of a drug just below the weight," he told BBC radio.

Seizures of hard drugs have reached a record high, government figures show, with heroin up 16 percent year-on-year in 2001. But cannabis still accounted for more than seven out of 10 drug seizures.
Hayman said the rationale for existing drug laws -- that people who tried cannabis were often led on to harder drugs -- had been disproved.
"The theory of 'gateway' drugs doesn't stand up," he said. "The evidence does not support that."

	12-09-2003 19:44									#2
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Oh sure, now that I no longer partake . . . wait, I'm not in England, I don't care.

	12-09-2003 19:47									#3
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It's just making official what's been the unnofficial policy here for years.

	12-09-2003 19:49									#4
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"Official" is what matters.

Decriminalization only lets dealers win.
Legalization and taxation, and all win.

Last edited by SlowwHand on 12-09-2003 at 19:55

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I agree.

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Sloww, you darn unwashed hippie!

	12-09-2003 20:01									#7
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yep

	12-09-2003 20:07									#8
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In the UK, it has just been downgraded from a class B to class C drug, so now you only get a warning if police find you with it.

OK - now it is time for a really dumb question, so excuse-me in advance:

What is the difference between Cannabis and Marijuana? Is it anything to do with the form they come in? Or are they just different names for the same thing?

	12-09-2003 20:13									#9
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Same thing. Cannabis is the genus name of the plants. The three types of marijuana are:

cannibis sativa
cannibis indica and
cannibis ruderalis

Of the three, only the first two have enough cannibinoids to get you high. Smoking ruderalis, which grows wild all over the US, will only give you a headache.

	12-09-2003 20:14									#10
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Cannabis is the name of the plant that you get marajuana from.

	12-09-2003 20:17									#11
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I'm moving to Canada. I hear you can get it delivered there.

	12-09-2003 20:19									#12
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A draw to door service.

	12-09-2003 20:25									#13
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Thanks

	12-09-2003 20:36									#14
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yay. another victory for civil liberties.

	12-09-2003 20:40									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Azazel Sloww, you darn unwashed hippie!

You guys need to make up your minds.

What's it going to be?

Unwashed hippie
Redneck cowboy
Patriot
Secessionist


Hells bells. I can't be them all.

	12-09-2003 20:41									#16
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Patrioticly secessionist unwashed redneck with hippy cowboy tendancies?

	12-09-2003 21:33									#18
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand You guys need to make up your minds. What's it going to be? Unwashed hippie Redneck cowboy Patriot Secessionist Hells bells. I can't be them all.

Hell, I knew you were an undercover Fed. Any true southerner knows that all of the above are prime traits of a good ol' boy.

	12-09-2003 21:36									#19
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"I'm a faithful follower of Brother John Birch, and I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church.
And I don't even have a garage, you can call home and ask my wife."

	12-09-2003 21:51									#20
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one step at a time sloww. once people see that letting people puff a joint in the privacy of their homes won't cause the collapse of civilislation they'll be more open to the idea of legalisation

	12-09-2003 22:52									#21
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quote: Hell, I knew you were an undercover Fed. Any true southerner knows that all of the above are prime traits of a good ol' boy

Unwashed maybe but the hippie part is a bit of a stretch. Around these parts, bein a hippie might jus get ya head cracked, bo-a.

	13-09-2003 22:52									#22
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"Cuz I don't ask nobody for nothin', if I can't get it on my own,
If you don't like the way I'm livin', jus' leave this long haired country boy alone"



Three's commie pinko hippie, and there's redneck hippie.

	13-09-2003 22:56									#23
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand "I'm a faithful follower of Brother John Birch, and I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church. And I don't even have a garage, you can call home and ask my wife."

My two favorite Daniels...

	13-09-2003 23:06									#24
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Many US cops now believe the war on drugs is a failure.
http://leap.cc/about/

	13-09-2003 23:53									#25
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara Of the three, only the first two have enough cannibinoids to get you high. Smoking ruderalis, which grows wild all over the US, will only give you a headache.

Oops

	14-09-2003 00:14									#26
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So what was on the front cover the Daily Mail yesterday?

GREEN LIGHT TO SMOKE CANNABIS

Then they claimed their was incontravertable evidence that the weed causes mental illness. When in reality the results are entirely ambiguous. The forces of reaction are building up, we must gird ourselvess and not give one purple-hazed inch of land!

	14-09-2003 00:15									#27
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"boawnowww bubbububu boawnoww bubububub legalize it..." -Cypress Hill

	14-09-2003 00:21									#28
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I get my stuff from Morocco so I don't give a crap what grows in America

	14-09-2003 00:24									#29
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you should feel sorry for the oppressed in the USA!

	14-09-2003 00:34									#30
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I think I said this before, but just in case...
Ina news special on the "War on Drugs", district attornies, judges, cops, all for legalization.
The only people saying to stay the course was like the DEA.
People who's livelihood was directly connected to herb remaining illegal.

Regulate and tax it, just like alcohol.
Minors and mentally challenged shouldn't partake, so Sava, you'll have to just go sit outside in the yard and play nicely.