These producers are merely responding to demand, like any other business.

If you don’t want drug factories on your doorstep, then we need to reduce demand. Crying over these factories is a bit like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.

We buy magazines that fetishize celebrities and their lifestyles, and yet we pretend to be shocked by them.

We watch adverts and films, and listen to music that celebrate drug-taking and excess, and yet we pretend to be shocked by it.

We spend our weekends getting drunk, having fights and wasting police and doctors’ time, and then condemn young people for smoking cannabis. We spend the rest of our time stuffing our faces with fast food, clogging up our arteries and getting diabetes and heart disease as a result costing the NHS millions, and then complain that kids are smoking pot.

Drugs are a lifestyle choice and response to social norms (i.e. trying to fit in, or establish respect or be attractive).

A straight forward response would be for wider society to get its story straight to how it feels about celebrity, lifestyle and health.

We can start by giving up Heat magazine, watching endless reality TV shows, reading The Sun, and paying more attention to our own health before we start moralising about other people’s lifestyles.

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Rebecca, you are a wise women. I would vote for you in an election. It is so true. Downgrading the drug then reclassifying it. What a waste of hotair. They need to look closer at the homes and education our kids are getting. By legalising it, there will probably be less people in jails and more people in work.

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What police say report anything suspicious ihave FOUR TIMES and still nothing being done i gave registration of cars,discriptions also phone crimestoppers but to no avail even seen drug dealing in the street all the police say is we’ll look into it…WHAT YOU GOTTA DO?

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Saint Joe, ………. Read Rebecca’s offering again! only slower this time and you will perhaps begin to understand what a load of Tosh yours is! ………………

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WOOLIBUGA- More important things to worry about in life than weed i think. Read some of the other comments and get with lifes program matey peeps!!!!!!!

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Oh and Woolibuga-read the comments very very carefully especially comment no3 the bit about what a lot of hot air!!! Got it now mate??? Yeah thought you might!

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I heard a story about why weed is illegal in the US. Apparantly, due to some old law or border law, Marijuana CAN’T be taxed. But that’s in America.

My point is, if true, the UK are just following US Protocol on Marijuana. It could be false.

But with the facts we do know, Rebecca made excellent points. Didn’t a news report last month say you had more chance of dying, riding a horse than dying from Ecstacy.

The problem right now is the side effects of illegally growing, transporting and selling marijuana; murder, crime and anti-social behaviour.

Legalize it and moderate it, tax is and uphold laws very similar to Alcohol, which kills more people a year than weed, for example I can go to Royal London tonight and get paraletic on a tenner, maybe feel violent, whereas a bag of weed for a tenner would make me calm and I can promise you I won’t feel like hurting somebody. Weed needs the correct laws and regulation and some re-educated minds in Parliament.

And ignore the Frank advertisements. I’ve NEVER been like that once when smoking marijuana. Nor has anyone I know. It’s propaganda.

It’s a shame that the attitudes of the misinformed are seldom ignored and the attitudes of clear thinking individuals with knowledge and understand are regularly ignored.

Oh yea, it’s all well and nice the West Mids police doing this cleaning up but when can I go to the shop without some idiot on a scrambler bike speeding around me while his mates drink endlessly and goad me into fighting. Not to mention the littering. I also find it a shame marijuana is often associated with Chavs, you’ll all be surprised as to who actually smokes weed aswell and it’s something that branches across race barriers, age barriers and social barriers.

Anyway, when I have kids I’d rather they were home smoking a joint on a friday night, rather than at the park drinking cheap cider and causing trouble or getting into all sorts. You think that’s a negative attitude of young people and alcohol? Go down your local park on friday night and have a quick look. Before you’re spotted of course and chased home ;) (Y)

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Saint Joe, ….. I have lived long enough to know all about life and it’s program and your attitude illustrates most emphatically the points that Rebecca was trying to make! …….

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Woolibuga- i actually agree with rebecca’s comments but dont think the weed is that important with all the other issues in life. You don’t seem to be making any sensible points here. You seem to be acting like rebecca by being rude to other writers. and you don’ seem to be able to read the comments correctly. No ones in disagreement with Rebecca!!!!!!

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I have just had a cannabis factory on my doorstep it got discovered because the house was burgled. A bit funny but its not funny for the landlord to have the whole house trashed.

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