“Yes it is a crime but throwing away the key is a bit extreme, considering what the sentences for murderers are, and the treatment prisoners receive.”

“Lock the scum up and throw away the keys.”

“They broke the Law end of. If you use an illegal drug you are breaking the law. All drugs are bad, but for different reasons. I dont do drugs or drink. No need! It is not the way life is meant to bed lived.”

“Yes they broke the law. The law is silly. Pot is not as harming as Alcohol!
Go after the Crims that deal in Heroin etc as they are 'usually' the ones that steal to feed a habbit. I suspect that most of the Pot discussed above would be sold to proffessionals that do pay taxes ie. Doctors, Teachers etc. I smoke Pot on a regular basis and pay my tax on an all too regular basis. I purchase the goods from a lovely Family man. He works full time and pays his taxes. He is also very good at gardening.”

“yeh sorry lucy one must pull ones head from ones rear and read the article correctly b4 coming out with twatish remarks like the ones u made :-) the article sugests that i as a canabis 'user' am an addict and theif and am in kin with crack heads and smackheads .. those remarks are bang out to every single person who for whatever reason takes the ganj (im not talking about the crims in the article as they broke the law bigtime) im just talking about the millions of normal people who like a smoke . fanx again”

“what makes you think that these people dont work and pay tax lucy!!! youve gota think its gona take lodsa ppl 2 set up something like that so at the end of it its not just all ur money, plus sum1 would need 2 work cause wat about when u want 2 buy a falsh car ect.. uv gota prove ur income so b4 ur speak think yea, if u live in ther world far enough but u dont!!!!!!”

“and cut out the bad things in their life, and the aggressive things.”

“Maybe just being caught is lesson enough for one of them. Or at least lets hope so and decide to make something better of themselves. but they only have themselves to blame and need to accept the consequences of their actions before something good in their life disappears.”

“Alcohol is the most damaging drug within society. The fact that it is socially acceptable and heavily taxed makes it fine to use though. Alcohol is worse than cannabis - fact. Why not just legalise pot and tax it and hopefully drop the price of fuel!”

“Missing the point slightly Lucy. I can't be bothered to explain though because I'll just be re-writing Wes's comment.. read it again and don't skim!

Rob - This argument is turning into a cliché, but what about people that smoke tobacco and drink alcohol? Working by your logic, they can't be perfectly good people either otherwise they wouldn't need to indulge..?”