Smokin' pot in the UK: do you just do it all day long now?

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I wonder if Britain's new "relaxin'" on the herb will spread. I think it will. I think I will move to a smaller city then. Because if weed's legal and booze is legal, cops are not going to bother much with anyone who looks "messed up", which means people will just feel free to smoke, drop or shoot whatever, I'd guess, and not feel guilty about it. But, maybe not.

Like, what's the deal with Amsterdam? Is it really a super-low crime rate? Or is it just so small that there's not that much crime? Prostitution's legal there, too. Also, in Las Vegas-- do people fall in love, or do they just get hookers? I dunno, but I reckon if everything becomes legal, people (especially certain kinds of guys from ages 16-35) will stop caring what other people think about anything and simply satisfy their urges to get screwed up and get laid. Waste no time with anyone who disapproves of your bad habits! Surround yourselves with junkies and whores!

What do you think, is this too much of a right-wing kind of thinking? You think it might just kind of all even out after a while? What would happen to organized crime? Would it just get more organized? Hmmm...

― Nude Spock, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How many of you British posters just spent the whole day smokin' weed on the front steps?

― Nude Spock, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom secretly spends all day smoking weed, saying 'cool, dude,' and thinking Toploader are way hip, man.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would smoke a lot more weed if it wasn't rubbish.

― Tom, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom says the above = instant Christmas gift idea.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Marijuana is decriminalised in some parts of Australia. The only social impact it has is that it stops the police and the courts wasting time and money hunting down casual dope growers/smokers. I've never met anyone that I know of whose reason for not smoking dope was because it's illegal.

― toraneko, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I swear I could smell it everywhere last night. Then I was alone... and I still smelt it. Maybe I was craving for some?

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nah, I wouldn't smoke weed...

― james, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There were certainly a whole bunch of guys hissing "hashweed" at me instead of "cab? cab?" in town last night. Felt like Ladbroke Grove back in the day. Mind you, that might just because all of London feels a bit edgy to me at the moment. I haven't smoked anything since the announcement, which won't do anything about the real problem with cannabis: the people that smoke it/go on about it. Tsk. Unless they model themselves on Bob Mitchum rather than Bob Marley, in which case they are fine by me.

― Mark Morris, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

paging nate dogg...

― jess, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who go on abt how mashed they are/were, gabble shit while 'out of it', insist that weed is the answer to all known ills, try to introduce a 'spiritual dimension' to their habit etc. etc. = dud.

People who go on abt how pissed they are/where, become belligerent or incoherent after three lagers, take pride in how many pints they consumed/how sick they were etc. etc. = ditto.

― Andrew L, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The deal with Amsterdam? Crime-rates are sort of high because...ahem...every reported stolen bike is counted. Or so the story went a couple of years ago after some Euro-fuckwits tried to paint our fair city as crime capital of the universe. Truth is it's all handled Dutchy style, you do your illegal thingy, you don't bother the tourists and 'de burger' and basically the police will sort of look the other way. You fuck that up: start shooting people in the street they come down hard. Far more interesting though is these weird banks you have on the canals, posh-as-fuck, and you have to wonder "what is going on there?"

As for living there, you kinda get educated with the vices of life, try them, think "what's the big deal?", grow out of it at an early age.

Wonder what Stevo has to say though.

― Omar, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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