Germany has just worked out that they want to legalise recreational use of cannabis by allowing 30g possession and three plants to grow. It needs now to pass parliament and then Germany will be the second country in the EU allowing recreational use, after Malta in December 2021 allowed four plants to grow and possession of seven grams.
Here, in the clever country, in the ACT you can possess 50g and grow two plants, and guess what? The world hasn’t gone to shit, they are still functioning and cannabis offences went down by 90 per cent in the first twelve months with no increase in hospital presentations.
Just imagine all the money, time etc. saved; the pain and suffering not created in good human beings.
While we are experiencing real challenges, like the fossil fuel climate catastrophe, we just bulldoze forests as usual, criminalise medicinal cannabis users for driving unimpaired, jail envionmental protesters for blocking roads to raise awareness. We are throwing taxpayers’ money into multinational oil and gas companies who never pay tax in the first place.
Is it just me or how much more time do we have to waste playing these games? So sorry future generations, we just got stuck and brainwashed every day again. Just like Groundhog Day
Chibo Mertineit, Lillian Rock
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