I cannot make up my mind on this one. THC the active ingredient in the plant can in certain circumstances certain and with certain types of people especially the young with developing minds can get a psychosis which means experiencing paranoia and fear and if taken often enough (every day maybe) or in large enough. The psychosis can last a long time maybe even for life as I understand it but the risk appears small.

Is this enough of a reason ? Alcohol and fags hardly speak volumes about legalizing it.

Anyone else got an opinion ?

Pot should not be illegal, end of.

It's less harmful than alcohol.

The supposed "side effects" are media led hysteria.

It would be better off legalised and taxed.

And I don't even smoke the stuff!

Most of the idea behind downgrading it's classification was to steer the efforts of the Police in the direction of perceived harder drugs. Like Mr Baptist said there's lots of media frenzy going on but if you hammer any sort of intoxicant there'll be health repercussions.

I really don't give a moral toss if people smoke hashish, but I do wish they'd do something about the smell!

Did you not mean less harmful?

Well, he might have but he said it irregardless

WHOOPS!

I did in fact mean that!

In fact I meant it so much I think I'd best go and edit...

I like Whoops! in Asda, usually all the stuff's a quid, or at most half price.

I think good old fashioned oxo-cube resembling dope is fine. Skunk is not. I would say skunk should be class A, whilst yer 'traditional' dope should be legal.

If you look at the amount of drug-induced psychosis cases brought on by skunk it is up there with LSD in my opinion. For a crude comparison, I would say dope is like a pint of 4% beer, whilst skunk is a bottle of absinthe.