Cannabis Could Be Legal In UK Within 10 Years

Has it? For every link you can post I can find an opposing gateway drug myth link, the biggest gateway drugs are tobacco and alcohol, they are in most homes on a weekly basis, children watching their parents vices copy them, that I know, and so it begins.......

I know you said cannabis, tobacco (or alcohol) - cannabis-whatever else, the vast majority of children don't see their parents high on cannabis at first, they see them drunk or smoking a ciggie, that's the gate opening.

https://www.healthline.com/health/is-marijuana-a-gateway-drug

Cannabis doesn't knock you out,I have sat around enough people smoking to realise that, it relaxes them, nowadays people also smoke for flavour, to relax, they enjoy the smell etc.

Vaping is also included now, but it's a bit like what came first the chicken or the egg, some drug, narcotic, stuporific or whatever leads to cannabis, its that original which is the "Gateway", cannabis is just somewhere further along the path.

i actually meant hard drugs..heroin etc.

the only time i "tried " that was when i was rushed into Haslar hospital in Gosport with a heart attack. The surgeon commander asked me if i had seen the film "trainspotting"..i had no idea what he meant, I was then shot up with morphine and i woke up next day.

I used to work on the afghan/Pakistan border, NWFP, a long time ago, I had an Austrian girlfriend who worked for an NGO charity helping afghan refugees, she loved pure opium which given the areas nickname of the golden crescent meant she partook regularly, she often used to totally pass out comatose, this led to a parting of the ways between us

The biggest change is that tobacco is not accepted as it was ten years or more ago.
I don't know what younger people do these days if they get stoned.

Jeez, I'm getting old.

For sure, 7000 chemicals in a ciggie 70 of which are carcinogens, in cash terms smokers cost the NHS two billion quid+ a year, my parents were chain smokers, filthy antisocial habit which people are now waking up to. If Raleigh sailed down the Thames returning from the new world puffing his pipe nowadays, and we could forsee the dangers of his discovery he would end his day's in a tower of London dungeon and his golden Virginia tobacco destroyed

Anyone ever in London or Amsterdam or New York with their children on holiday consider taking them to a Body Worlds exhibition,show them the smokers lungs.

I was in this area last Feb just before lockdown, the building was a church, Covid shut it down,its reopened as a cannabis store, holy smoke

Spoke to my nephew about this yesterday as he has a Thai passport, I can see a business opportunity
https://time.com/6142360/thailand-decriminalizes-marijuana/

I chatted to a doctor earlier, he told me that legal cannabis here has seen a drop in under 30's smoking tobacco as most prefer to smoke CBD or full spectrum cannabis.

Don't forget that the fridge gets emptied very quickly, too - the "munchies" sorry, just noticed this was mentioned previously.