Everywhere in the UK is awash with cannabis and the police, if you can find one, have no interest in preventing you from smoking it, hence it being more openly used.
I recently found some black tar heroine close to where I live and when out walking my dog. I thought it was hashish at first, but didn’t recognise the smell so looked it up on the internet. It went straight in the bin. I’m glad I picked it up and not any young children.
I was working in Liverpool late last year and walked around the city and the smell of cannabis was thick in the air. Nobody was bothered. I love the smell, always have.
As an ex-smoker and toker I don’t mind it at all and wish they would legalise it. I don’t particularly want to smoke it again myself, but would happily partake in some edibles.
Another reason is that we might finally be able to get some proper CBD in this country, which I would take every day for all of its positive benefits.
Personally, I would be more interested in them legalising Ayahuasca, DMT and other psychedelics, so I can have a controlled and assisted journey to help with my Depression and PTSD (I chose not to have SSRI’s, awful things) - I could travel to South America but it isn’t cheap.
This country is so backwards in so many respects it’s untrue, just look at assisted suicide, so I cannot see our laws changing anytime soon, even though it would generate good tax revenues. Time will tell, but the more countries that do start legalise it, the more I think the UK will eventually follow suit, or remain stuck in the dark ages.