muz
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the thing is as things are progressing with the smoking ban and now the ban on the shop displays of tobacco in certain sized stores I think give it a while longer and an out and out ban on cigarettes wouldnt cause that much uproad .
Don't forget though with the history of cannabis its been legal for a lot longer time than it has been legal . the criminalization of it is only a recent thing(relatively) .
However I do agree that the message we would send out is that its acceptable/ safe and might encourage more young people to try it .
The whole debate poses interesting questions about the sovereignty of the individual and free choice and where we should pose the limit to free choice . In my view I think we should certainly limit peoples free choice to smoke that is something that should be banned in my view . alcohol is a funny one when it comes to free choice cos I dont see much wrong with having a beer with a meal or something like that but I dont think that it is socially acceptable to go out binge drinking so there should also be some restriction on the ability to binge drink (interestingly current licensing laws make it an offense to serve someone who you believe is too intoxicated anyway however cleearly this is seldom enforced).
Don't forget though with the history of cannabis its been legal for a lot longer time than it has been legal . the criminalization of it is only a recent thing(relatively) .
However I do agree that the message we would send out is that its acceptable/ safe and might encourage more young people to try it .
The whole debate poses interesting questions about the sovereignty of the individual and free choice and where we should pose the limit to free choice . In my view I think we should certainly limit peoples free choice to smoke that is something that should be banned in my view . alcohol is a funny one when it comes to free choice cos I dont see much wrong with having a beer with a meal or something like that but I dont think that it is socially acceptable to go out binge drinking so there should also be some restriction on the ability to binge drink (interestingly current licensing laws make it an offense to serve someone who you believe is too intoxicated anyway however cleearly this is seldom enforced).