Jim?

Given Malta’s extremely close connections with China, where everything deemed as fake is being manufactured without any standards and controls, it will only be a matter of time before the fake pot makes it to the Maltese market.

Then we will be truly liberal and modern and the best in Europe.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2012/03/22/synthetic-marijuana-on-the-rise-sending-kids-to-er/#./?&_suid=139852065405707773011332698093

http://fusion.net/Culture/video/rise-dangers-fake-pot-584107

…or make big cash contribution. Some lawyers enjoy keeping cash at home.

Isn’t this like stealing cigarettes from mummy’s hand bag or stealing a bottle of Jim from the alcohol cabinet?

Are you suggesting that we should make them both illegal?

Some argue that drug users are victims and should not be subject to criminal procedures and punishments. However decriminalisation sends the wrong message, that the taking of drugs can be acceptable. I think that first time drug users should be fined or sent to rehabilitation but not imprisoned. Nevertheless drug abuse should still be a criminal offence.

I also think that while state and church do much to help drug users kick their habit, prevention programmes are lacking or insufficient.

The Labour government has not issued any information as to how people are going to access drugs legally. Will business people be able to obtain a drug outlets licence, or would users still have to rely on peddlers?

“There are harsh penalties for dealers”: if they happen to be foreign and have no one to back them.

What is your opinion about this? What should happen to young men found with a joint for personal use?

[Daphne – There are no harsh penalties for young people found in possession of a joint. That is a myth. There are not even any harsh penalties for anyone found in possession of illegal drugs for personal use. The harsh penalties are for dealers. Daniel Holmes, for instead, was a dealer.]