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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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My personal belief is that drugs should be legalized, and then taxed, based upon the simple fact that for all the policing and legal work anyone who wants to get high can buy drugs without any trouble at all.
If after decades of drugs laws anyone who wants drugs can get them, it stands to reason the policy isn't working.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
Happy (British) Fathers Day to any dads on here today. I know that's Gen, but also Zag and anyone else who happens to be around.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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My personal belief is that drugs should be legalized, and then taxed, based upon the simple fact that for all the policing and legal work anyone who wants to get high can buy drugs without any trouble at all.
If after decades of drugs laws anyone who wants drugs can get them, it stands to reason the policy isn't working.
I don't know about things like crack cocaine. They are way too dangerous.
OTOH, the government are making khat illegal, which strikes me as utterly pointless as whenever they do studies, it repeatedly comes out as the least harmful.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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vivatifosi wrote: »Interesting point. Hadn't thought about that.
It's all a bit nuts to be honest.
You can map out 'what if' scenarios all day and night, you can take an objective view of the risks and balance of probabilities, but on the day it's quite possible that emotion will play as big a part as reason in deciding Scotland's future.
Which is a tad worrying.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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There's Mother's Day, Father's Day ... Valentine's Day for lovers/people to date..... what about a Spinster's Day?
People should buy them presents for not overpopulating the planet
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vivatifosi wrote: »I don't know about things like crack cocaine. They are way too dangerous.
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Drugs ranked by harm to user and others.
Based on the evidence, the middle classes should be discouraged from coming home and slurping down a bottle of wine, and encouraged to take LSD, Ecstasy and Mushrooms instead.
Might lead to a much happier society.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »It's all a bit nuts to be honest.
You can map out 'what if' scenarios all day and night, you can take an objective view of the risks and balance of probabilities, but on the day it's quite possible that emotion will play as big a part as reason in deciding Scotland's future.
Worrying times.
Whisky sales will drop off if exporting becomes a trickier set of paperwork... they'll have to drop the price and drink more of it themselves.0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Drugs ranked by harm to user and others.
But as a proportion of users the reverse may be true.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
But as a proportion of users the reverse may be true.
The study was published in the Lancet. Might be worth a dig to see if there's any more details.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Where's the harm to others in cannabis? That you force feed them chocolate when you've got the munchies? I'm sure it's from smoke, but that struck me as quite high.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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