If you remember previously we had done a small article based on the Jon Gettman’s 2006 report that showed how marijuana is the number one cash crop in California USA. What about on an international level?
The BBC have highlighted key facts from the UN agencies latest World Drug Report 2009 and these go to show that cannabis is the most grown plants, the most used and most seized in the world!
So although you may have thought that cannabis is commonly used at a local level it is infact predominantly used in USA, Canada and Europe more than Cocaine. These facts probably reflect how easy it is to grow cannabis and because of its low harmful effects on humans compared to Cocaine, Heroin and Opium it is far more accepted and used.
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The reason why the government does not want to legalize marijuana is because at the moment they can arrest you for the possession of it and then smoke it themselves. They kill two birds with one stone – uphold the law in the eyes of the public and get loads of free marijuana…….
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“Getting drugs in Hounslow is as easy as ringing for a pizza” is the headline from the Hounslow Chronicle news paper that did a coverage on a cannabis user. The user, John, describes his journey back from the 1970′s smoking cannabis at the age of 13 all the way until now where he explains that getting drugs such as marijuana is just so easy.
John although initially a cannabis user became addicted to harder drugs and drink and only when he started his own business as a hairdresser did have have the means to have drug shopping spree’s and even cultivate cannabis in his own house. However this rock ‘n’ roll life style that he had created soon all ended when he had an overdose on cocaine and had to call the ambulance to his house where they found his whole house full of cannabis plants. This landed him an 18 month jail sentence and had to get treated for his addictions.
He now has come forward to discuss his life story with drugs and concludes that in Hounslow it is easy to get hold of drugs such as cannabis as it is to order a pizza and hopes that we all need to become open about such issues to help solve spiralling issues like John had.
John certainly hits the nail on the head by saying that more needs to be talked about and it should not dilute the good qualities that marijuana can bring. Are we seeing some sort of trend here and it all points to the fact the Hounslow is becoming a cannabis capital here in the UK?
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As published by the Hounslow Chronicle UK police raided a HUGE marijuana den above a furniture shop in Hounslow High Street with the value of almost £40,000. Police officers said that the cannabis factory had plants growing that had such a potent smell that they could not stay in the premises for long as the effects where too high and they had to take it in turns to complete securing the cannabis plants.
This goes to show that unlike other drugs such as Cocaine or Heroin, marijuana is easy to grow and instead of there being a huge influx of the pot being imported, it is most often grown on home soil.
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If you are looking for a very innocent interpretation of why we should legalize marijuana, then there is no one better than Bob Marley to tell you why. To sum it up, its just a plant! Its just a herb!
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Recently California’s governer Arnold Schwarzenegger said that it was time to talk and look at what other countries especially in Europe are doing. Its has just only been released today that Dutch coffee shops over the years have been dlcining through their closures by government. The UK has already re-graded Cannabis from a class C back to class B so all the evidence points to marijuana not being legalized and governers and politians simply leading the masses on to pass some time.
Most importantly in the US some states have already legalized marijuana for medical purposes and then it only leaves it to be legalized ofr the receationalists…. is an income based on recreational marijuana tax for a state such as California really going to cut it with the rest of the world?
Schwarzenegger and Obama have already dismissed this idea of legalzing for the sake of paying off state debts so that leave no other reason to successfully legalize the substance.
“It’s time to debate” – is what the governer of California Arnold Schwarzenneger has recently said in a speech this week. California is the American state that is producing the most amount of marijuana and has become it number one cash crop, over taking the production of its other quality products such as wine.
The question is why has all of a sudden Schwarzenneger given a hint to the possibility of legalizing marijuana? Is it becuase we are in a recession and it has becoming tempting to legalize and tax marijuana to generate more money for the state? Is it because more and more pro marijuana activists are pilling on the pressure to governers that instead of Schwarzenneger fighting back he has said lets debate but with the intent of not legalizing mj and only to pass time in a diplomatic fashion?
Although their seems to be hope that marijuana will be legalized, the notion of the sole reason to do this for the benefit of generating money for the state has already been rejected as the Schwarzenneger and even Obama has said that there are other ways to do this.
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