Nut is cracked by herb.

[LittleGrizzly]

That is probably true, but you know what would be even safer? Doing neither!

And even safer again if they use a small amount of marijuana (it slows down your boy racer types at least...) just enough to get them a little paranoid without dulling thier reactions to much... (obviously being stoned out of your mind wouldn't help)

The world would be a lot healthier if we didn't eat McDonalds and other such nonsense the world would be a lot safer if we recduced all our speed limits by a decent portion the world would be a lot safer if we put road bumps everywhere...

But we do these things for entertainment convinence and to not waste our time... in no other area of life does this policy of even 1 in a few thousand is one too many so we should put a large portion of people out for it but when it comes to drug policy this seems to be accepted by a large portion of people...

I don't even consider it would worsen public health overall if anything I think it would improve it by offering other alternatives to the terrible legal drug alcohol. Even assuming these casualties would come on top of exsisting casualties, not considering the lives saved by lower and non use of alcohol ,the police time more effectively spent and money used in other areas would infact benefit people more than the drugs would negatively impact...

Not to mention the wonderful things we could do to our deficits with all the money saved

I do think of the arguments that the lesser recreational drugs should be kept illegal is no better than questioning the legality of things like peanut butter, rock climbing and other such extreme sports and questionable substances...

So, what you are arguing is that a minority of people should suffer serious mental health issues just so that the majority can get high? And you are seriously surprised that the Government chose not to take this approach?

So in summary what you are saying is that instead of offering less harmful alternatives to the terrible alcohol we should continue to inflict its effect on people with no legal recational alternative ? because just the positive effects of offering a legal alternative to that blight on society would make the improvment worthwile let alone the countless other benefits...