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Legalise The Herb? YES!
Emily Radish London's Independent Students Newspaper
Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 If you smoke cannabis then it is your duty to tell the government what you think of their archaic drug laws. But why is cannabis illegal? Why is it illegal for me to do something to my own body that has no bearing upon anyone else? These questions should concern everyone, cannabis smoker or not, since it is a fundamental issue of human rights. If these sorts of laws, that renounce nature, remain unchallenged soon we wont be able to pick our own noses (let alone anyone else's) without incurring a fine! Therefore all tokers should support the Legalise Cannabis Alliance - a registered political party which is campaigning to bring about the legalisation of cannabis. Visit their web site at www.lca-uk.org to pledge your support and to find out loads of interesting info with which to bombard your MP. Society must ask: how can the government justify making the utilisation of a natural plant illegal? Since many of the laws of this land have their roots in Christianity (e.g. Marriage / abortion / Sunday trading hours.) are we to believe that in this case God got it wrong? (Personally I think the Tree of Knowledge was just a big Hemp bush, and the reason our MPs are scared to let us smoke dope because we'd all realise how much they're screwing everything up!) The prohibition of cannabis, despite claims to the contrary, has nothing to do with our health since there is no reliable evidence1 to prove that it is bad for you. Furthermore, we are all at liberty to smoke tobacco and drink copious amounts of alcohol. We are even free to contribute to asthma in others by driving big, fast phalluses. If the government is serious about looking after our health then maybe they should be clamping down on fast food (fast fat facilities) and confectionery companies yet these dirty dealers and pushers are even allowed to target their advertising at children. (Why let a clown choose your kids diet? -ed) It is claimed that cannabis is a gateway drug, meaning that once you've tried it your doomed to end up on heroin. This is the so-called 'slippery slope' argument. The evidence for this is that most, if not all, heroin users tried cannabis before chasing the dragon. However, if these scientists asked the users if they had tried milk before cannabis then I'm sure the results would be much the same. It is obvious that there is no cause and effect between milk abuse and drug use. It would also be most unusual for the sort of people who are willing to try hard drugs to turn their nose up at soft ones first. Furthermore, the vast majority of cannabis enjoyers never consider taking heroin or other class A's. There is a widely accepted differentiation for users between Cannabis and ALL other drugs. While cannabis remains illegal we are at the mercy of unscrupulous suppliers who blend boot polish and other impurities into hashish bars and never calibrate their scales. Whilst we are deemed criminals for simply smoking a joint the real crooks2 are ripping us off and laughing all the way to the offshore bank, with huge amounts of money that would all be taxable if cannabis was legal. 1 Although prohibitionists love to quote figures from tests which have concluded that cannabis can lead to brain damage or other debilitating conditions, replication of these experiments by independent scientists have consistently been unable to illicit the same results and have frequently shown that the original experimental method was dangerously flawed. 2 There are many decent and scrupulous cannabis dealers around and in no way do I wish to imply that they are all crooks.
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