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Hey friends, old and new! Ya don't see much of me over here these days, but just stopping by to show some love and mention that the Bud Of the Month voting is now open for business! :) :) Woohoo! Stop over there and cast a vote please! https://www.autoflower.org/threads/the-january-2016-bom-pom-contest-why-im-high.49175/

Hey, if we get 500 votes this month, maybe I could get @blue to show you her bewbs lmao. Jkjkjk. They're really great though. Right blue?

Much love, Anthro
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Sounds good but as everyone knows , when you fight for the "Locknar" you never really get to see the bewbs. (South Park S12E03):crying:
 
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Legalising cannabis in UK 'would raise hundreds of millions'
Exclusive: Private analysis for the Treasury concludes that regulation could also produce huge savings for the justice system

Legalising cannabis would raise taxes worth hundreds of millions of pounds and produce large savings for the criminal justice system, a private analysis for the Treasury has concluded.

It judged that regulating cannabis, which was used by more than two million people in the UK last year, could generate “notable tax revenue” and “lead to overall savings to public services”.

The Treasury study, seen by The Independent, was commissioned by the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg ahead of the general election to help formulate Liberal Democrat drugs policy if the party remained in office.


Following David Cameron’s general election victory, the Government has set its face against reform of Britain’s 40-year-old drugs laws and rebuffed calls for a new approach to cannabis use.

But his officials’ research underlined the appeal to the Treasury and the courts and prisons system of following the lead of several countries and US states and legalising and regulating the drug.

Norman Lamb, the Lib Dem health spokesman, said the study – believed to the first carried out by the government – added to growing evidence pointing to the need for a new approach to cannabis.

He said: “This is an important contribution to the wider debate on drugs reform and shows the UK could make savings in public spending and generate notable tax revenues from a regulated cannabis market, probably in the hundreds of millions of pounds, some of which could be spent on better education around the dangers of drugs use.

“There are successful cannabis markets emerging in different parts of the world and we should look to learn from these experiences. The burden is now with supporters of the status quo to explain why prohibition should continue in the face of the emerging evidence.”

The research drew heavily on a study by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, which calculated an annual windfall of between £500m and £800m to the Treasury if cannabis was treated in the same way as tobacco.

George Osborne’s department agreed that regulating and taxing cannabis had the potential to “generate notable tax revenue, although we expect it to generate less than the c £0.5-0.8bn pa ISER assumes”.

It worked on the basis that the highly potent forms of cannabis, such as skunk, would remain illegal and under-18s would be barred from buying the drug as they are with cigarettes.

The Treasury said the rate of duty would depend on how much money the government wanted to collect and the extent to which it wanted to drive down use. VAT would also be levied on cannabis if it was legalised.

It pointed to research concluding that legalisation could have a small impact on the NHS costs. The research speculated on a range of outcomes between a saving for the health service of £16m and a cost of £128m.

However, any extra spending is likely to be outweighed by annual savings of between £55m and £147m to the criminal justice system, the Treasury said. If people were no longer charge for possession of cannabis, there would savings of £18m to the police, £24m to the courts, £9m in community sentences, £3m to the probation service and £2m to prisons.

It also suggested that the cost of dealing with more serious drugs offences would drop as users switched to the legal market.


The Treasury cited research concluding that cannabis use is not closely linked to adult productivity, although it pointed to academic studies pointing to long-term adverse effects for consumption of the drug among under-16s. It said there was a “high level of uncertainty” around that point, but it believed that the impact of negative impact of legalisation on economic productivity “would most likely be towards the lower end of the 0-£3bn range”.

In a Commons debate on cannabis legislation, the former Conservative Cabinet minister Peter Lilley said cannabis should be legalised and made available for medicinal use, telling MPs: “Even Queen Victoria allegedly used cannabis to relieve menstrual pain and if it’s a Victorian value then surely it can be made more widely available.”

He said: “Prohibition of cannabis drives soft drug users into the arms of hard drug pushers. Only by providing some legal outlets for cannabis can we break the contact between cannabis users and those pushing cocaine, crack and heroin.”
 
The Lib Dems have set up an inquiry to find the best way to legalise cannabis

The Liberal Democrats have established a panel of experts to draw up proposals for the legalisation of cannabis in the UK, the party has said.

The new committee will examine how legal cannabis markets operate in other countries and see what lessons can be drawn from their operation.

Norman Lamb, the party’s health spokesperson, said current laws “blighted” the lives of young people and needed to be changed.

“We must end the hypocrisy of senior politicians admitting to using cannabis in younger years – and describing it as ‘youthful indiscretions’ – whilst condemning tens of thousands of their less fortunate fellow countrymen and women to criminal records for precisely the same thing, blighting their careers,” he said.

Steve Rolles, from the drugs charity Transform, will chair the panel. Other experts taking part include Sir David Nutt, a former government drug adviser, Niamh Eastwood, of the charity, Release, and former police chief Tom Lloyd.

Sir David was sacked as chair of the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs by the Labour government in 2009 after he criticised ministers for allegedly ignoring evidence it had presented them.

Countries and states around the world, including Colorado, Washington and Uruguay, have begun to legalise the use of the substance.

“I share people’s concerns about the health impacts of any drug – legal or illegal. But we can better manage that harm by taking the money that’s currently spent on policing the illegal cannabis market and spending it on public health education and restrictions at the point of sale," Mr Lamb continued.

Monthly marijuana sales in Colorado, where the drug was legalised in 2014, have passed the $100 million for the first time,according to the Denver Post newspaper.

In August $11.2 million were collected in taxes on the substance by the state.

Research by the charity Transform published last week found that there had been no spike in cannabis use by young people in the state since 2005 but a “substantial contraction” in the illicit trade of the substance.

The Liberal Democrats in June called for all drugs to be decriminalised for personal use, tabling amendments to the Government’s Psychoactive Substances Bill.

Decriminalisation for personal use would not equate to full legalisation but would mean someone could not be punished criminally for possessing the drugs.

The party however wants to look at legalisation solutions for Cannabis in particular.

In the United States 23 out of the country’s 50 states currently permit medical cannabis, with more states pending legislation.

The Liberal Democrat 2015 election manifesto contained a slightly less emphatic pledge to ensure that no one arrested for possession of drugs for personal use ended up with a criminal record.

The Government is against legalisation of cannabis and says that scientific evidence shows it is harmful to health.
 
“There are successful cannabis markets emerging in different parts of the world and we should look to learn from these experiences. The burden is now with supporters of the status quo to explain why prohibition should continue in the face of the emerging evidence.”
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Another sunny morning,after a little snow the night before.you can see Jupiter to the right...lol..kidding ,it's water on the windshield
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arty zan said:
Legalising cannabis in UK 'would raise hundreds of millions'
Exclusive: Private analysis for the Treasury concludes that regulation could also produce huge savings for the justice system

Legalising cannabis would raise taxes worth hundreds of millions of pounds and produce large savings for the criminal justice system, a private analysis for the Treasury has concluded.

It judged that regulating cannabis, which was used by more than two million people in the UK last year, could generate “notable tax revenue” and “lead to overall savings to public services”.

The Treasury study, seen by The Independent, was commissioned by the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg ahead of the general election to help formulate Liberal Democrat drugs policy if the party remained in office.


Following David Cameron’s general election victory, the Government has set its face against reform of Britain’s 40-year-old drugs laws and rebuffed calls for a new approach to cannabis use.

But his officials’ research underlined the appeal to the Treasury and the courts and prisons system of following the lead of several countries and US states and legalising and regulating the drug.

Norman Lamb, the Lib Dem health spokesman, said the study – believed to the first carried out by the government – added to growing evidence pointing to the need for a new approach to cannabis.

He said: “This is an important contribution to the wider debate on drugs reform and shows the UK could make savings in public spending and generate notable tax revenues from a regulated cannabis market, probably in the hundreds of millions of pounds, some of which could be spent on better education around the dangers of drugs use.

“There are successful cannabis markets emerging in different parts of the world and we should look to learn from these experiences. The burden is now with supporters of the status quo to explain why prohibition should continue in the face of the emerging evidence.”

The research drew heavily on a study by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, which calculated an annual windfall of between £500m and £800m to the Treasury if cannabis was treated in the same way as tobacco.

George Osborne’s department agreed that regulating and taxing cannabis had the potential to “generate notable tax revenue, although we expect it to generate less than the c £0.5-0.8bn pa ISER assumes”.

It worked on the basis that the highly potent forms of cannabis, such as skunk, would remain illegal and under-18s would be barred from buying the drug as they are with cigarettes.

The Treasury said the rate of duty would depend on how much money the government wanted to collect and the extent to which it wanted to drive down use. VAT would also be levied on cannabis if it was legalised.

It pointed to research concluding that legalisation could have a small impact on the NHS costs. The research speculated on a range of outcomes between a saving for the health service of £16m and a cost of £128m.

However, any extra spending is likely to be outweighed by annual savings of between £55m and £147m to the criminal justice system, the Treasury said. If people were no longer charge for possession of cannabis, there would savings of £18m to the police, £24m to the courts, £9m in community sentences, £3m to the probation service and £2m to prisons.

It also suggested that the cost of dealing with more serious drugs offences would drop as users switched to the legal market.


The Treasury cited research concluding that cannabis use is not closely linked to adult productivity, although it pointed to academic studies pointing to long-term adverse effects for consumption of the drug among under-16s. It said there was a “high level of uncertainty” around that point, but it believed that the impact of negative impact of legalisation on economic productivity “would most likely be towards the lower end of the 0-£3bn range”.

In a Commons debate on cannabis legislation, the former Conservative Cabinet minister Peter Lilley said cannabis should be legalised and made available for medicinal use, telling MPs: “Even Queen Victoria allegedly used cannabis to relieve menstrual pain and if it’s a Victorian value then surely it can be made more widely available.”

He said: “Prohibition of cannabis drives soft drug users into the arms of hard drug pushers. Only by providing some legal outlets for cannabis can we break the contact between cannabis users and those pushing cocaine, crack and heroin.”
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yup legalization, it's a no brainer, ride the wave
 
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