And in Malawi it provides an income to many families.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGZYpOchepA

Yes, but the Reefer Madness faction wants everyone to believe that this old herb cannabis is the concoction of Satan himself and it will lead to your ruination and painful early death at the mere mention of the word “cannabis”.

The reality about cannabis is that it is not a panacea for the ills of mankind but neither is it heroin and LSD rolled into one that is at the ready to ruin the life of every teenager at every street corner on the way to school.

The point is that it’s not as bad for you as all the hype would have us believe. There’s too much propaganda and misinformation about the subject.

McDonalds may be unhealthy (I don’t eat it) but it’s still available. Comparing that food to cannabis is stupid, because alcohol would have been a better example.

Daphne is quite right in that there are ulterior motives behind the obvious sudden push for decriminalisation and yet to me it’s a step in the right direction. The right move would have been to legalise completely, educate, experiment, monitor and tax it.

46 so far. Not in Malta but Afghanistan. I’m not about to legalise anything that gets my friends killed.

Legalisation has to be accompanied by legalisation of drug retailers who in return would be taxed and have their activity monitored.

Compare alcohol and cannabis and it becomes obvious which is safer.

I mean, we tolerate alcohol abuse in this country like it’s nothing. Teenagers openly drinking in public, girls as young as 13 getting blind drunk in dresses fit for prostitutes, dying in fights or falling off bastions on NYE or getting killed by a drunk drivers.

And that’s not including alcoholism and domestic violence. In Malta if you don’t drink alcohol at a party they ask you what’s wrong or people say ‘dak stramb’. Despite the known danger of alcohol abuse, it is ingrained within our culture and trust me a lot of alcoholics would prefer to be a demotivated and stupid person rather than shaking, vomiting, hallucinating and pissing himself, because he’s trying to quit.

https://ncadd.org/in-the-news/155-25-million-alcohol-related-deaths-worldwide-annually

It’s hypocrisy to tolerate alcohol use, but not cannabis use.

When cannabis is accepted as having medicinal properties by the competent authority – not by the drug lobby – it will be made available for treatment under the Dangerous Drugs Act and under the restrictions of the Medical & Kindred Professions Ordinance i.e. by legally qualified health personnel not as a D.I.Y. treatment in the hands of brain-rotted drug abusers for pleasure. Morphine, heroin, amphetamines etc are already available for genuine treatment by licensed doctors but that won’t satisfy hedonist drug abusers.

How many times one finds stupid illogical arguments like yours on the internet. It shows that you don’t need to smoke weed to say something idiotic. Or is it the other way round?