Comment 5 - Legalising marijuana - response to David fox and Soveliss' blog

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I can not believe people are so naive when it comes to marijuana and cannabis. I once believed that both of these drugs should be legalised, but that was many years ago. I started smoking marijuana when i was about 15, but i soon grew bored of it. You know when they say soft drugs lead onto harder drugs, believe me that's true. The high from skunk soon gets boring, and i quickly moved onto amphetamines. Then i went on to cocaine, then heroin, and ended up being fucked by these so-called 'natural highs'. I wasted years addicted, all because i thought it was ok in the first place to smoke a bit of weed and get stoned.

Its very important to remember that junkies hang around with junkies. People who smoke weed always know someone who is higher (or lower, whichever way you want) up the chain, and is on the next drug. The criminal world that brings in these drugs from abroad is all run by the same people, and these are the same people who put up the money for growhouses.

I know for a fact that if i had not been so fucking dumb as to try marijuana then i would not have ended up losing everything to the yardies in Handsworth who supplied my all the heroin and crack i could smoke. I have spoken to loads of my friends and fellow addicts, and its well known amongst hard drug addicts that starting on the softer stuff leads to the harder stuff.

So to all these twats who say legalise it, it doesn't hurt anyone, it' just a nice, mellow natural high, you won't be saying that in thirty years time when all the marijuana smoking kids of today have grown up and are fuelling the next heroin and crack epidemic by breaking into your yard and burglarising your house. And do not tell me this doesn't happen, i've been there, rattling, desperate for drugs, and willing to do anything to feed my never ending habit.

I have lost four friends to heroin addiction, and every one of them started off by smoking a little bit of blow. Obviously this doesn't happen to everyone, but i lived on a council estate nearly all of my life, and i know and have seen that softer drugs lead to harder drugs.

When i was at school i used to smoke a spliff walking home with my mate Copey. After finishing school i lost touch with him for 13 years. Then three weeks ago a man asked me for spare change by Wolverhampton station. Thin as a rake, dirty hands and finger nails, and the obvious sign of heroin addiction; the pinned eye pupils, i said no, and walked away. I seemed to remember him but couldn't work out where from. Last week i spoke to him, and it was Copey. He had lost everything through heroin, and it all started with that little bit of marijuana that every one wants to legalise.

You may think i'm talking bollocks, but how many of your mates have you lost to drug use? The link between marijuana and harder drug use is well known and medical studies, such as this one of twins, have proved that it is not genetics that makes people start taking harder drugs, but the fact they started on softer drugs. The revenue that all kinds of drugs make flows into the same pockets of the people who run gangs, bring guns to our streets, and who buy the stolen property that funds users habits. The drug dealers who sold me marijuana years ago are now the same people who are now selling heroin, skunk, and crack, and the majority of them are now addicts themselves.

I'm sorry for ranting on, but the people who say legalise it must be stupid. Everyday i read the paper there are more and more stories of drugs addicts jailed through feeding their addiction and drug related articles. The links are there for all to see, so why do people continue going on about legalising it. There have also been god knows how many stories in the papers about studies that have linked marijuana use to mental health problems later in life. I wonder how many of these people who are all for legalising it will be saying the same in thirty or forty years time when these mental health problems manifest themselves? The link between mental health problems and strong types of mariyuana are well established, but who knows what other kinds of problems these drugs might be causing, only time will tell.

Drug use is a subject that really winds me up because i have been there and have lost everything because of chasing that high. Smoking weed soon leads on to chasing the dragon, and although it might not for every single weed smoker, it will for a lot.

If you want to smoke weed go and do it. But the next time you see one of those beggars who are always at the station with pinned eyes, why don't you ask him the very first drug he took and ask him what hes taking now?

All illegal drugs are bad, and in some way or another, all illegal drugs are related to crime, violence and misery. I personally feel spouting crap about legalising marijuana is immoral, and an appalling example to the younger generation.

On a finishing note, i was talking to a fellow pupil at university the other day about drugs and addiction. Not knowing my past i asked him what he thought of heroin addicts, and what should be done with them. He said that Britain should take a leaf out of Mao tse-Tungs book (Chinese revolutionary) and shoot them all. He obviously judges books by their covers which is a shame, and i feel sorry for any poor fucker with an addiction who meets this student when he is a qualified social care worker. Addicts are still people, despite their problems. And lastly, everyone hates terrorists, but where do they get the money to fund their activities? from drugs like mariyuana.

Anyway, had enough. Have a nice day.