Germany Starts It's Drug Addict Creation Scheme.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68674813

Surely this is a massive retrograde step. Bound to create loads more hard drug addicts. Madness.

[jno]

find me a hard drugs junkie that didn't start on cannabis

or mother's milk. Why would cannabis have to be designated the "start"?

[Atheist]

jno; you're pinching one of my points (which I didn't invent myself...)

[Peter Pedant]

CBD gummies a bit pricey at £35 for 30 capsules.

yeah, a distant cousin had a vizeet from the Feds who advised her that she was wasting her money on the above and such was her consumption, she was better going darn da ( foo-foo local drrugs market)

One plant here has a street value of £1000 - life cycle 16 weeks er they say so anyone is  allowed to hold £3000 stuff for personal use.

[Peter Pedant]

cannabis as a gateway drug.

the risk of other illicit drug use in cannabis users may be higher because few people try hard drugs prior to trying cannabis and not because cannabis actually causes the use of harder drugs. Therefore, observed associations could be the result of societal ordering and availability of drug.

so there is an increased risk BUT they are not sure why

[Mozz71]

15:26 - Ynna, I thought it was a weird deletion too, considering it was in response to my 14:23 post, but there you go. 

[jno]

PP, yes, the theory might be that once you've found yourself a cannabis dealer you've also found yourself a heroin dealer. Legalising cannabis would take it out of the hands of the criminal fraternity and put it into Tesco's.

Portugal decriminalised all drugs more than 20 years ago. If they're a nation of hard drug addicts, I haven't heard.

[Auntypoll]

Cannabis is less addictive than alcohol 

[davebro3]

Intereresting:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-68710492

Australians are the highest per capita users of cocaine in the world, followed by Britain, according to the OECD.