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My answer to the lock down rules - dope.

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Dinahmo Thu 01-Oct-20 18:09:08

Watching all those young people outside in large towns/cities after chucking out time prompted me to think about my youth. When I was 19 I moved to London and shared a flat with 2 other girls that I met in a hostel in Gower Street. We weren't alike and didn't socialise. Apart from our differences they both had boyfriends and I didn't.

Any way I made friends and we used to hang out in some of their flats. One night they started rolling joints and I thought NO. Anyway as the evening wore on I started to giggle - the affect of inhaling their smoke. Eventually I joined in.

What I remember from that time is we sat around in flats, smoked a few joints, listening to music, falling asleep and then going home. No getting pissed, or falling over whilst drunk.

So, I suggest that cannabis is legalised and that young people stay in their bubble and smoke a few joints. Less risk of them passing on covid to people outside their bubble, should they have caught it themselves and not be aware. It might help them to not worry quite so much.

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janipat Fri 02-Oct-20 00:30:26

GagaJo supposing I decide speed limits and seatbelt regulations are pathetic, can I really just disregard it?
But people decide for themselves everyday which laws or rules they'll follow and which they won't.

Break the law, don't scream, throw a tantrum or otherwise desist when you feel the force of the law for your transgression. I'm a feminist, I hate what is being perpetuated on women in the name of "inclusion", but I'll use legal means to combat it.

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GagaJo Fri 02-Oct-20 01:00:56

Your choice janipat. Choice of others to smoke dope.

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trisher Fri 02-Oct-20 10:14:56

Can we just clarify the law and how it is applied. Cannabis is illegal to use, buy,grow or sell, however prosecutions for possession vary in police authorities. In some personal possession (usually about an ounce) is generally ignored, in many even if you are caught you will be cautioned and that won't appear on a DBS, only a second offence leads to prosecution. The law is by no means as clear and simple as some appear to think.

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Riverwalk Fri 02-Oct-20 10:37:03

I read the OP as tongue in cheek.

Yes, there's nothing funny about drug addiction but there's nothing funny about alcoholism.

There are often jokey threads about alcohol consumption - wine o'clock, sneaky G&T, and stocking up the wine for Lockdown, etc.

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