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Give the weedheads somewhere that they can indulge their habit where it doesn't annoy anyone else. Legalise Dutch-style 'coffeeshops' for cannabis and tobacco to be sold for consumption on the premises only.
Paul, Coventry,
Stealing and GBH are both crimes that clearly victimise an innocent party. Cannabis use, on the other hand, is a victimless crime. You have a far greater risk getting into a car or binge drinking than you do smoking a "spliff" anyway so the notion of protecting yourself against yourself is laughable
Josh, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
I love the uptightness here.Addict?We aren't talking about crack here, it's a bit of weed.God,would you rather have drivebys. or some kids smoking ganj in a park.If you don't like it,don't do it.The police in Maids concentrate on the kids so they don't have to deal with all the actual thugs and stuf
Jerry Hatric, Maidenhead, England
I don't think Calum would have laughed for long if he'd been gaoled, and I bet, despite his bravado, he wouldn't have risked smoking cannabis in public again. Once word had got round, his friends would probably think twice too!
Roger Bower, Norwich,
Sorry , for me it's unacceptable that a boy ,aged 16, smokes cannabies in public. I think cannabis should be reclassified. I am not after legalising any kind of drugs, abortion or prostitution as ( like in Holand) it dosn't decrease number of people using drugs etc( on the contrary !)It's terrifying
Magda, Warsaw, Poland
Putting me in prison just for stealing? That's just stupid. Putting me in prison just for GBH? That's just stupid. Putting me in prison? That's just stupid.
Somewhere there has to be a line, but where does an addict draw it? Not that sort of line!!
Prisons too full? Now that is just stupid!
Mike Poulsen, Reading, Berkshire