advertisement


Luxembourg leading the way

Darren L

Egalitarian
Luxembourg is to be the first country in Europe to legalise production and consumption of cannabis.
Luxembourg's government is to introduce new legislation so people over the age of 18 will be able to legally grow up to four cannabis plants in there houses or gardens for personal use.
They have decided to deliver these fundamental changes in light of the failure of prohibition to deter use.
Justice minister Sam Tamson describes the change in the law on domestic production and consumption as a first step to get away from the illegal black market.
Kudos to Luxembourg's government, great to see some positive news for a change that makes good sense.
 
Luxembourg is to be the first country in Europe to legalise production and consumption of cannabis.
Luxembourg's government is to introduce new legislation so people over the age of 18 will be able to legally grow up to four cannabis plants in there houses or gardens for personal use.
They have decided to deliver these fundamental changes in light of the failure of prohibition to deter use.
Justice minister Sam Tamson describes the change in the law on domestic production and consumption as a first step to get away from the illegal black market.
Kudos to Luxembourg's government, great to see some positive news for a change that makes good sense.


Don’t hold your breath to see it happen elsewhere, organised crime has almost unlimited funds and politicians are cheap to buy as are newspaper reporters and editors, the banks make serious money laundering the proceeds, it will stay illegal in most places.
 
Don’t hold your breath to see it happen elsewhere, organised crime has almost unlimited funds and politicians are cheap to buy as are newspaper reporters and editors, the banks make serous money laundering the proceeds, it will stay illegal in most places.

That is very unfortunate if true (I don't doubt it for one second) . Given the millions of people that use cannabis in the UK it would be great to remove a large percentage of the income it produces for large criminal gangs.
 
^ Have you tried paying in large amounts of cash to a bank ? Even if organised crime could do that on a regular basis (they can't) how do banks make 'serious money' from it ?
The laundering has to take place before it reaches a bank.
 
^ Have you tried paying in large amounts of cash to a bank ? Even if organised crime could do that on a regular basis (they can't) how do banks make 'serious money' from it ?

Me? Not really, I did just pay in/move £50K from a house sale to my current account and then to NSC ( that's the max I can buy in Premium bonds) that's probably peanuts in the grand scale of things where organised crime is concerned.
 
^ Have you tried paying in large amounts of cash to a bank ? Even if organised crime could do that on a regular basis (they can't) how do banks make 'serious money' from it ?
The laundering has to take place before it reaches a bank.

Wonder how Russian oligarchs manage to buy up so much property around the world.
 
^ Have you tried paying in large amounts of cash to a bank ? Even if organised crime could do that on a regular basis (they can't) how do banks make 'serious money' from it ?
The laundering has to take place before it reaches a bank.
This is what casinos are for, isn't it?
 
^ Have you tried paying in large amounts of cash to a bank ? Even if organised crime could do that on a regular basis (they can't) how do banks make 'serious money' from it ?
The laundering has to take place before it reaches a bank.
Open a restaurant or pub. Or a solarium. Have your pals call round, wash the money through it. I had a pub reopen near where I used to live, never saw a customer in it but I bet they rinsed it. Likewise my local bank has dozens of Indian restaurant proprietors bringing in sackloads of cash every day.
 
^ Have you tried paying in large amounts of cash to a bank ? Even if organised crime could do that on a regular basis (they can't) how do banks make 'serious money' from it ?
The laundering has to take place before it reaches a bank.

Gawd, money goes through a cash business then it goes offshore to an investment trust and the investment trust rocks up at the City and that’s just one way.
 
And nail bars. Apparently hand car washes and nail bars are the two biggest examples of modern slavery in the UK today. Please think about this before using them.

As publicised on Coronation Street of all places, I've never been in a nail bar, my sister did own one but to the best of my knowledge has always employed local girls, I wash Tracy's car, but then I'd never pay anyone to do anything I can do myself.

Loads of good reasons above to legalise cannabis and deprive the Black Market from large amounts of cash.
 
Legalise it properly, tax the sales like cigarettes and switch the revenue stream over from from tobacco to cannabis. Make tobacco smoking illegal. HMRC would make a fortune in short order. You can see the effect in Canada. The same would happen in the US of the Federal government legalised it.
 
Legalise it properly, tax the sales like cigarettes and switch the revenue stream over from from tobacco to cannabis. Make tobacco smoking illegal. HMRC would make a fortune in short order. You can see the effect in Canada. The same would happen in the US of the Federal government legalised it.

I think Luxembourg's legalisation is the way forward, freedom for the adult individual to grow a herb in their own home and at their own expense.
Your suggestion would mean the Cannibis would be need to grown on a large scale (capitalist) and sold by whom ? (another capitalist) and more taxes paid to an already corrupt government, which would then mean the Black Market would still be cultivating and selling as no doubt it would be cheaper per gram/ounce than the hypothetical cannabis products sold in the hypothetical dispensaries. Making tobacco illegal would only encourage more black market tobacco products being sold illegally which kind of defeats the purpose.
All of these black market products, whether weed, cigarettes, rolling tobacco, puppies all feed huge amounts of money into highly organised dangerous criminal gangs that are involved in modern slavery and sex trafficking, ie really f**King bad dangerous people.
Tobacco smoking (no matter how dangerous) and alcohol ( the biggest problem narcotic) consumption will never be made illegal as it already is a large part of the established market.
Tobacco is not illegal in Canada.
 
Depending on your address police attitudes vary wildly, so much depends on the chief constables attitudes.
If you do some light research you can get most things delivered , dealers have online accounts, I gather in London Instagram is used to do business, for class A drugs. You can get coke (not the cola) with your pizza.
I won’t give name but there’s two sites I know that use encrypted emails and crypto currency’s to sell weed, (no powders) anyone, any age, anywhere could order tonight for delivery before weekend by special recorded delivery, they even offer escrow! And these sites have been doing open business for best part of decade under couple of guises.
Police must be aware. They are hiding in plain sight.
 
Didn’t the last Labour government have a dalliance about decriminalising Dope and then they backtracked after some research saying use of it was linked to serious mental conditions such as schizophrenia?

And didn’t the Lib Dem’s put it their manifesto in the noughties and it went down like a lead ballon with an aging and conservative British electorate.
 


advertisement


Back
Top