Why it’s time to legalise drugs in the UK | The Russell Howard Hour
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- From The Russell Hour Hour, Russell takes a look at drug laws in the UK and why they need to change.
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As a former law enforcement officer, I can vouch that I preferred to deal with 10 citizens off their tits on weed than 1 drunken idiot.
The worst thing that can happen the guy steals your lunch. No regrets when i have the munchies. In all seriousness though, when i was around 19yrs old i decided i would quit drinking in favor of smoking weed. Before that i would do both and i noticed i became aggressive and loud, basically very obnoxious. I've not had a drink in almost 20 yrs now and only smoked weed and never had any problems again. Except the police treating me as a criminal once in a while i guess
As a man who has died, and as one who travels beyond the physical veil, who spends his time alone and in nature. I am opposed to the children in suits who dare to try govern my mind, and who stand in opposition of spiritual pursuit. How dare they!! And I am opposed to those that choose to enforce their words without question. The blind enforcer - The archetype we should all be wary of.
I've never taken drugs and have rarely had much to drink, but when I used to go clubbing, it was usually much less dangerous and much less nerve wracking to deal with people who were stoned or on mdma or whatever. The worst I had from drug users were coke heads who just wouldn't shut up about trivial crap.
Hahaha respect.
Off their tits on weed??:L stfu
I've been clean from heroin for 9 years now, psychedelics helped me rearrange my brain no end. Very well said. ✌️
Nice one fella, that's what I cal an achievement
Respect mate, big love
Fairplay
Nice one mate 👍
Congratulations on 9 years clean. Amazing achievement 💜🥰💚
As a Dutch person, I'd like to say that we are indeed mental. She nail-shitting is not even the worst part, wait until they hear about how we threaten our kids that if they misbehave, the Dutch Santa will take them to Spain.
Yes, being taken to Spain is horrifying to us
Are you saying...you didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition?!
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No, but seriously, it's because of the Inquisition. Fascinating that this has persisted in folk memory though, thanks for mentioning this
@@hampstersquared fun fact: within our society, it's not even common knowledge that it's about the Spanish Inquisiton, the Dutch children are just truly terrified of being taken to Spain for no reason
@@rosameurs1627 it’s the British tourists on Costa Del Sol…fair enough :)
Had to think for a bit then it was like... Oh yeah, the small matter of the 80 years war and throwing off the Hapsburg yoke.. That's STILL in your folk psyche! Oh My.
In a burlap sack! They’re taking the kids to Spain in a burlap sack!
Its finally time someone famous from the UK actually recognised how stupid the laws are in the UK thank you russel!
@Retro Game Elements most people I know smoke weed and they are amazing people. The UK is broke right now so the government could tax it so easily but they don't.
@Retro Game Elements the dealers are usually idiots yes, I'm talking about the users.
@Retro Game Elements if it was legal then those dealers would no longer be making profits and it would be legal shops/dispensaries making money and paying taxes instead of random thugs acting like kindergartens.
@@Joeink100 It would make no difference at all , they would just move onto the next thing , Counterfeit tobac or w.e turns the next profit, plus a major spike in robberies as people would just start stealing from the dispensaries
@@causetheplumstasteyum7848we would all suddenly turn into ruthless burglars who would much prefer the difficulty of robbing a secure dispensary, rather than just kicking Wee Stevie's door in the now? 🤔
I'm 64 and I took so called 'magic mushrooms' for the first time recently. After over 50 years of depression and anxiety brought on by childhood PTSD, numerous counselling sessions over the last 25 years, I can honestly say I feel better than I have done...EVER! I'm now off my anti-depressants and feel so happy. Although you are weaving this into a humorous delivery, it makes absolute sense, all of it. Well said Russell.
Glad it's worked out well for you! If you're not aware of Alan Watts I think you'd like the guy. Some call him the first British Zen Master.
He was such a very intelligent, articulate, charismatic speaker and in the months I've been listening to him, I think I've only had cause to logically disagree with two things he's said.
Sample quotes: "you didn't come into this world. You came *out* of it!"
"Earth 'peoples' like an apple tree, 'apples'"
I don't take anything and listening to himself has felt like what I imagine such experiences to be like. One day I swear I was able to see more range and intensities of colour, entirely sober.
As though it had cleansed the grey depression from my eyes themselves!
@@TheHorseshoePartyUK but also beware false prophets.
The pharmaceutical companies HATE that there is a cure for it they want treatments which is why they don’t fund the studies
What amount did you take? And is it a one time thing or regularly?
@@samregan One trial video I saw on Netflix, they used such an amount I was astonished and thought it was very reckless of them. I've not tried them yet, but whilst the results of the trial were good, I think they hit diminishing or even negative returns on the amount used in a single dose.
Over half of the very small pilot study were in remission from severe, treatment resistant depression, 6 months on or more. Just from two properly supervised doses, aided by Psychologist & shrink.
Even *naughty* people I know online said the amount used was about three times what it should've been.
So, they erred there, giving such a dose of something poorly understood to nice older normies who probably haven't even had a drag of something for many years.
One guy, they accidentally screwed his head up. Took him an extra couple months therapy to arrive at where he should've been the whole time:
"this trauma I'm not sure happened I'm so bothered about? Well I'm 60 odd and it was over 50 years ago. What's it matter now either way?" sort of attitude.
I'm glad we are finally starting to see mainstream dialogue around this issue and the ways we can fix it, it's so important.
We have been for over a decade. People are too stupid to listen.
@John Grey Too right
People need to be careful. Death Caps are called that for a reason. There is no antidote to amatoxin. If you eat one, if you're *lucky* you're getting a liver and kidney transplant. Also, even Alan Watts said respect such things or you really can blow your mind and never come back.
"If you get the message, hang up the phone. For these are simply instruments like microscopes, telescopes and telephones. The biologist does not sit permanently with eye glued to the microscope. They go away and work what they've seen" - Alan Watts.
I love his talks though, without any extra influences and often drop off to sleep to them completely sober. If I rack up a large playlist, I often awaken feeling much better in the morning with no reasonable explanation other than they somehow helped in my sleep!
@John Grey Oh yes I agree.. Just talk like this encourages unclear thinkers to make poor decisions. I'm trying to account for that. It is fascinating the research in them.
But some people, really are MEMES for prohibitionists and they get in their own way and everyone else's.
@John Grey Pretty much agree. I see things connect that others who don't have basic Psych / Social-Psych / Sociology training don't learn to spot.
Eg as you describe. Broke or even in Poverty Traps -> chronic stress -> poor decision making even when you try your best -> depressed -> drugs -> woops drugs ruin your life so now they're sending you to jail to ruin your life etc
I honestly don't know who's worse at basic economics out of my own side's minority of morons treating Capital Flight like it's all lies
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GOP types who have no idea Poverty Traps are a well-documented socio-economic phenomenon.
Who seem to think 'pulling yourself up by your bootstraps' doesn't defy the basic laws of physics then yelll their usual rote phrases.
Thank you SO MUCH for bringing this conversation to mainstream TV 🧡🙏
What he is saying is right. And I am glad he is putting some focus on it.
Yeah, I know there was a statistic that found that 1 in 9 employees at work smoke weed, and not only that but most managers didn't care
Only been waiting about 40yrs xD
Hell yeah. I did truffles in holland and they were amazing!
Sorry to barge into this thread about something not directly related just, Russell said in the video we have a black hole in the budget. How? We're a 6th GDP, 37th PPP per capita country. Where's the money. WHERE'S THE MONEY? Doing a search for 'my little crony' gives you clues. Rampant cronyism to the point Churchill would use this lot for, speed bumps on a Tank obstacle course.
What pisses me off is that alcohol is extremely destructive and one of the most dangerous drugs to kick, yet it's not only legal, but extremely cheap and available in every supermarket in the country. Oh, and the houses of Parliament has multiple bars inside it, so that not only can MPs get pissed during the work day, they're doing so on our dime
Any society which has legal alcohol and tobacco has absolutely zero justification for keeping other drugs illegal. What's even more anger inducing is the very fact that everywhere which has legalised or decriminalised drugs has seen a net positive on society. We absolutely know it works to reduce the negative impacts that illegal drugs has on society. Less people in prison, less overdose deaths, less addicts in general. The reasons often given as a counter to legalising drugs are simply myths that have been peddled as fact for so long that most people just repeat them but almost all can, and in fact have, been debunked years ago. Just go and look at what happened in Switzerland in the early 2000s when they legalised heroin. Gripped in one of the worst heroin epidemics the world has ever seen. Literally thousands of overdose deaths every single year, massive numbers of people with H.I.V. and aids, violent crime through the roof. Since they started treating it as a health problem instead of a criminal problem the place has been transformed. Portugal is exactly the same. One thing I know for certain is that prohibition has never worked and will never work. It's about time we started trying something we know most definitely works.
@@michaelohara49 well said!
Absurd the state of it. We have a tiny number of Lefty tricked onto Spice-sprayed hemp at one end, and coked up drunken corporate psychopaths running the country. Untenable. To me tobacco really is the gateway drug. No significant alteration of your mind. Nope, the brainwashing happens slowly over time, til you delude yourself into believing you can't live without inhaling a totally pointless fug of poisonous gasses.
@@michaelohara49 Prohibitionists: "drugs will ruin your life. If I catch you, I'm sending you to the University of Crime so you find it nearly impossible to get a job when you get out"
@@TheHorseshoePartyUK Everything about prohibition is absurd. A concept which has never worked in all of human history. It just hands control of the market to criminals , who will sell unregulated products. I mean, if health and safety was really the goal then prohibition is one of the worst things you can do because it won't get rid of the drug you are trying to prohibit, it will just mean far more dangerous and unregulated versions of the drug will be on the market. It also forces people to be criminals who otherwise would never break the law and all because their drug of choice is deemed illegal. As I said, if you legalise tobacco and alcohol, the argument for keeping any other drug illegal falls apart. They kill millions combined each and every year.
Alcohol dependency costs the NHS £4.5 million a year.
Imagine how much they would save the NHS if most switched to weed.
Obesity costs way way more, But you don't dare call anyone fat
You cant die from weed tho.
@@JustDaniel6764 Cross fit costs way more than obesity
If everyone was smoking weed and not drinking on a friday night, there would be SOOO much LESS crime/aggro/assualt etc
@@JustDaniel6764 yeah but obesity doesn't cause domestic and street violence and social chaos. I'd prefer to be called fat than an alcoholic. It's easier to rectify and far less destructive. ( Not saying that obesity is a good thing obvs)
Micro dosing shrooms helped my best friend kick his alcoholism, he's been sober for nearly 3yrs, but the drug hes addicted to is taxed and bought in shops, the drug that got him off it could end in prison time.... Decriminalisation has worked in every country that's tried it as you pointed out. Its a corrupt system that applies temporary patches instead of actual solutions or longterm plans.
@Archon After his 14 days of micro dosing he never touched them again, so no he's not replaced one addiction with another, and mushrooms are much safer than the Librium detox he underwent in rehab that almost killed him.
@@BeExcellent21Another I think part of the problem is, is that this substance has been tarred by its most vocal proponents. Some of them really are memes of what everyone thinks it does. These people likely have problems to start with and it's just adding fuel to the fire.
Legalised drugs helps to regulate an unregulated market. Takes money away from criminals who often use violence as a means of control. And undercover cops say that illegal drugs just cause more violence and they only disrupt the market for 2 hours in years of work. The taxes will be more than enough to help treat the unfortunate few who get the worst effects from it.
Well just think about the benefits. 1) It brings much needed monies into the UK economy 2) The drugs can now be produced cleanly at laboratories and there's no longer a danger of not getting exactly the correct dose 3) It frees the police from arresting people using these drugs because they're now legal 4) There is no longer a need for illegal marijuana growers which gets rid of a whole slew of people growing weed in less than clean conditions. 5) Takes money away from criminals. I'm sure there's more, but these are the few I can think of, plus benefits to people who get more benefit from marijuana than heavy-duty opiods.
more than that, it decriminalizes a whole lot of ppl who aren't doing anything but having a wee spliff at the end of the day. Those ppl are waaay more likely to be helpful when police ask questions about the guys breaking into cars (or what have you) when they don't have legal BS hanging over them.
We have a major problem alcohol in this country adding drugs to the mix isn't going to work,
@@jakethemuss5678 Allowing safer highs would allow alcoholics to start using safer and cheaper drugs than alcohol. Adding drugs to the mix would most definitely reduce alcohol consumption.
@@bramvanduijn8086 alcohol is a massive part of uk culture, people wouldn't stop drinking they would just use drugs and alcohol
We have weed shops everywhere in our state, for quite a while now. All the horrible things that were going to happen with legalizing weed, never happened. Nobody even talks about it anymore. Tourists enjoy the variety packs.
then theres the safer side of obtaining it, its not dodgey its not mixed with other stuff its just weed
@@NonsensicalSpudz yeah, it's surprising how crime goes down when you take the main products from organised crime away. Imagine that 🤯
It's getting interesting to watch how they manage to keep it illegal when even the worst Karen's out there are starting to see the truth.
@@ilarious5729 bro the karens are even starting to smoke the weed, you see so many at the dispos wydlin out
I made multiple attempts on my own life, I never felt like I was going to give my parents grandchildren or settle and enjoy life. If I drank, I got drunk - I never felt like I could ever live up to expectations so didn't. My mate said "try this" gave me a 3g and so I got home and I took 3g, turned the lights out and got comfy on my bed. ended up in my mind walking through a court yard kind of place, finding my baby self screaming and crying in the dark. I was mentally calling out for my parents, wondering if they could help, maybe even knew what I should do but neither came. I held him, cuddled him and cried with him, unsure how we would cope but I promised him I no matter what life throws at us I wouldn't let him down. We were gonna be alright, somehow - but I've got your back, baby me. When I felt a bit less overwhelmed I opened and dried my eyes, stared at the carpet swirling and growing for a moment and smiled. A week later I was employed, I was happy and I haven't tried anything negative since. I have a drink here and there but I don't really find there's an appeal anymore.
If that really is true then you've used drugs in probably the most beneficial and healthy way one could have ever done it. So kudos to you for coming out of a pretty bad place.
@@darkin1484 I don't doubt it. I had a rough start in life and in my 20's I was working in retail, but all the money was going on drink and coke on the weekends. I thought it was just 'partying' and didn't see what a poor idea that it was due to the fact that I was severely depressed (although unaware of this) and just thought I was 'partying' with my friends.
Long story short, I started smoking weed, and in turn it help me give up alcohol and coke. I kept on smoking the weed and then whilst stoned I came to realise that this was a waste of time too, as I was just playing games or watching TV - doing nothing productive. So when stoned I decided I was going to quit weed too.
I have since trained up and got a career, have a loving girlfriend and a baby on the way.
It beggars the question, why is it banned?
When I was depressed I was drowning depression out with beer, and then when I was sober and feeling the depression I just thought it was a hangover... I was a hamster on a wheel I couldn't see.
Respect
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3g on your first trip???? Jesus Christ what a fucking gamble
@@darkin1484 I mean you definitely shouldnt do 3g on your first trip, that's a gamble and a half
Also by legalising drugs we can actually manage what goes into them so a user will know exactly what is in it. Let's be real a cocaine addict is going get his hands on cocaine, wouldn't it be better for them to actually know its safe and not filled with Laxatives and Fentanyl. Make it available, tax it and put an age limit on it. Sorted.
Facts, the benefits of legalising drugs are tenfold
Yes. Plus education.
Err...you mean snorted! Lol
Tax and an age limit wouldn't do shit unless the prices could be matched to the market. That's the issue, people don't want legalisation as it would stuck, people want decriminalisation which just means that it's not illegal to sell or buy, you can have shops for it but it's not exactly legal either so it won't be taxed or anything.
Not only that but if the cocaine market was regulated no one would die in South America over it
Recreational legalization has done wonders here in Michigan, USA. State runs budget surpluses now.
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It makes me so angry that I live in a country where I can be imprisoned in South Carolina for something that is legal in many other places. Well that, but also how I have no right to control what happens to my body if some asshole impregnates me. That makes me angry, too.
@@Neddoest yes but you've been told you're more free than I am, if you believe that in spite of all evidence to the contrary well, you're better off than all us poor non americans, aren't you!
@@Neddoest Ah, yes. The land of the free (if you are rich enough).
And of course the harm has been costed? And you made around $16 per person . Woo.....
I wonder what the profits are from gun sales?
most countries in the world dont have excessive racist laws regarding cannabis use and possession.
If drugs get decriminalised in 2023 I'm crediting Russell Howard for solely fixing the UK's drugs problem
You can thank David Nutt as well ; )
U can thank me as well
It does not "fix it", but it does not make it worse that it already is. There's also the business side to normalise, but that part of the issue is way harder to solve, especially when the illegal drug trade finances nefarious activities more often than not.
I see it as how about we see the junkie as someone who fucked up bad and offer help even when they may be absolutely helpless. It is definitely a taboo just having the junkie get the fix which as some point is a needed fix, instead of having the junkie threaten people with violence just to get a fix.
Even more taboo, justifiably so, is having an amnesty to legitimise the drug traffic. The industry is too tainted to morally justify an amnesty to the whole supply chain. It may be a solution, but with the consequence of a society condoning a whole lot of violent crime that went undeservedly unpunished, like the use of torture, murders, gang violence, etc.
Perhaps a new petition needs to start/letters to government.
There are sadly still too many gullible people in the UK who will be swayed by propaganda for this to happen, and too many right wing morons that are completely wrapped up in identity politics to accept it. Case in point: Brexit, the financial disaster that many of the UK willingly voted for because we were sold propaganda and lies or because they believed voting against our best interests would "own the libs". If a discussion on legalisation comes up in the government you'll see the daily mail and the telegraph etc. suddenly start posting propaganda about how any and all drugs will ruin your life, I guarantee it.
I went to prison in 2019 for possessing weed and md in uni. Seems a waste of taxpayers money to fuck up my life so I'm a burden on the state when I've done nothing wrong to anyone and never would.
It is ridiculous I feel for you mate
That fucking sucks. The fact that they've attached that stigma to you for life for something that innocuous is insane.
How much did you possess? I’m at uni but always careful with it, like not ever having over 3.5g at once so i don’t get hard done by
Bloody hell! How much were you in possession of? Your sentence was either over harsh or you had a transit van full of the stuff. Hope things pick up for you
@@A9Abs No need to be such cuntily harsh
I'm so glad that someone is FINALLY talking about mushrooms. Mushrooms have changed so many lives for the better. Yes, some people aren't responsible and have had a few bad experiences. But I'm so glad someone is talking about this.
I can see the advantages of legalising drugs, and Russell made some really good points. But, like alcohol, it will be abused. I had a an awful experience on Mushrooms during a trip to Amsterdam. I was young and irresponsible, and I thought I was going to die. It messed me up for a long, long time and it stole a lot of my 20s. Just saying, if they’re readily available, like alcohol, they will be abused and before you know it we have a mental health crisis on our hands! But I’m biased because of my own experience 😊
@@adamcurtis9813 I'm pretty sure that's just a given.
@@adamcurtis9813 All prohibition has ever achieved is make the entire process far more dangerous. Prohibition has never once got rid of drugs or alcohol, just hands control of it over to the black market. Just do a little bit of research into countries which have legalised or decriminalised drugs . Almost everytime it produces a net positive for society . People who want to take drugs will take drugs. Wouldn't you rather they were taking drugs which are regulated and a whole lot safer ?
We all know what the outcome of drinking too much alcohol is, but the outcome of some drugs is more complex and depends on the user’s personal state of mind. And the thought of my kids going through what I went through worries me.
@@adamcurtis9813 And quite a lot of people ended up in the hospital because they jammed random objects in their arse. You can go around banning glass jars (to mention one horrific example) and the like, but that won't actually stop people from getting hurt. You can't protect people from everything, so you should focus on protecting them from threats you can actually do something about. And drug laws simply don't work. Partly because you can't win the fight against entertainment (drugs are so badly defined you can't distinguish between drugs and entertainment without getting tautological), and because you are fighting a symptom while ignoring the cause. Miserable people are going to do stupid shit. Making them more miserable as punishment isn't going to reduce the actual problem: Their misery.
Finally someone talking some sense in the mainstream media about it! I am a tired of seeing shootings and stabbings (often cases of mistaken identity) in my city that are drug related. I'm also very glad to see so many sensible comments and non of those middle Englanders that were so accurately portrayed in this video!
You know, it's awesome that this issue is being talked about, it's a shame that I can't see weed being legalised (because the Tories are, well, Tories); even someone like me, who doesn't use the stuff, the benefits to legalising it are clearly there.
The Tories need enemies
They can't remake the same mistake as brexit and remove their biggest scapegoat for everything wrong in the UK
Showing to anyone sane that not only wasn't the EU the problem, leaving them created more and bigger problems.
So yeah, they can throw away bilions to fight drugs in order to show they are doing something "good".
@@TyroRNG I mean, also Russell brilliantly skewers the argument that legalising drugs will turn England into The Purge or something. Part of me wishes that Labour would try and legalise drugs, but I can see why they aren't up to doing that. Can you imagine the headlines from the right wing rags of England if Labour said "Let's legalise drugs?"
The UK already grows and exports a tonne of recreational cannabis to Holland too. They're fine with taking the tax money from recreational cannabis, just not fine with allowing citizens to use it.
@@fightthepowerman I mean, this is the Tories, should be surprised that that's the direction that they've gone with?
@@fightthepowerman we are the biggest exporter of cannabis in the world and the main share holder in the company that exports it is theresa mays husband
Tobacco and alcohol and pharmaceutical companies don't want legal drugs
Pharmaceutical companies had a hand in the usa opioid epidemic
@@mattdeinken6580 if the beneficial illegal ones were made legal why would anyone take their poisons
You forgot the Cartels.
@@mattdeinken6580 Not just a hand! The Sackler family are hugely responsible. They pushed propaganda saying you can't get addicted if you use it for pain, pushed it in doctors surgeries... Grrr.
Dang thank you I forgot the cartels and the thousands of smaller gangs
As a Canadian with legalized pot, watching your police shows where they spend every other episode busting pot houses feels like a massive waste of effort, time and resources for something I can order - and have delivered to my doorstep - online.
I live in the UK and have my weed delivered to my door within a couple of hours of texting my supplier - very discreetly, of course!
@@nekite1 oh, sorry, I should mention "by the government" lol
@@adam346 Nice!😎
@Shan no, you can get it delivered by Canada Post if you cheap out and don't want next day or even same-day delivery.
An ADHD medication which I used to take is a class B drug if not prescribed. The hassle both the pharmacists and I had to go through everytime I went to collect it was ridiculous. So much time and money could be spent on other stuff.
same for me. im on elvanse, and its a MASSIVE nightmare to get a new prescription every month because im only allowed one months worth on me at a time. plus, they cant send my prescription automatically, i have to call the receptionist of a specific ward of a specific hospital and request she mail it to my pharmacist, which takes 5 days to get to the pharmacist and i can only request when i have 5 or less days left on my meds.
Its a nightmare, and to have to do all this with an executive function disorder is a shit show.
This is why I smoke 420 baby!!!!
adhd and autistic and weed if i smoke it helps me Sleep if i smoke it lol thats it i dont get high or anything else yet booze well .....
This crop of Tories, they're mind are just as turned inside out as the Far Left. Yuri Bezmenov was right about BOTH wing's sets of numpties.
Their idea of 'small government and party of business' is seemingly as you describe, and also getting unqualified office juniors to make life or death decisions in PIP applications.
Instead of just saying, y'know, these people have serious diagnoses, give em a bit more without turning up, and save millions on admin costs and LAWSUITS as they try manipulate people out what they're legally entitled to.
Even if some lazybones manipulate the system, so what, let em stay home wasted out of trouble and then those who want to make something of themselves can.
Worst comes to worst, we can feed these collosally lazy types to cannons.
@@TS-STORM I've got them too but weed just makes me tired so it isn't much of a drug in my regard, it's about as fun as melatonin
I’m 61 years old and I’ve used recreational drugs for almost 50 of them. I’ve worked full time since I was 16.
I’m a homeowner, I have three nice cars on the drive, I’ve been happily married for 40 years, and have two very successful grown up kids.
I work at a high level in my industry. I’m four years away from retirement, and when I do I plan to spend my remaining years completely stoned while counting my blessings.
Did ye ? Aye.
This is very typical. I know many people who have smoked cannabis on a daily basis for many years and they have good jobs, own their own properties etc. Most are university educated. But many ignorant people in this country consider potheads to be lazy, even though many of those same people go out drinking all night, often causing trouble and then stay off work 'sick' the next day.
Tell more. Far toolate for me to achieve these things, but I''m intrigued by your story.
@@jonathanwalker8730 Good morning Jonathan. My stable situation was achieved by marrying a woman stronger willed than me.
Her devotion to family is off the scale. She accepted my habits and focused on building unity within our tribe.
She ensured both the kids could read and write before they started school, and encouraged me to chase any dreams I had at the time.
All this while building her own career. Both our kids are now home owners and successful in their fields. I have my dream job as Head gardener and groundsman at a privately owned 86 acre Manor House, and my wife continues to push the family forward and protect our future.
We’ve had some dark times, financially and emotionally as all families do over the years. But she has held it all together. I’ve learned that it not the situation you’re in, it’s how you choose to perceive that situation. The answer to any difficulties is usually waiting for you just around the corner.
In short Jonathan, I’ve been very very lucky. I don’t know how old you are, or your circumstances but I can assure you that it’s not too late. Don’t run! Slow your pace and let life catch up with you.
I wish you all good things.
Paul.
Wicked! Respect.
I live in Colorado and having Legal weed has saved this state in so many ways. I say do it. We just decriminalized magic mushrooms
No doubt there's gonna be some South Park episodes about that, lol. Gotta ask, are you proud of the legacy that show has made for your state, ambivalent, or angry? Genuinely curious, feel free to ignore.
@@beththedarkmage3359 so that show is a bit of a mixed bag for me at least. It definitely has highlighted some things in Colorado that makes the state really great. Casa Bonita is a real place and it's actually in a strip mall right next to you a really great thrift store and right behind it is the best art school in the state. I also feel like the show is genuinely funny in some of the earlier seasons though I haven't watched in a while as like just the general malice towards other people isn't something that I really agree with especially as someone who is very Progressive. The state thankfully has done a lot of really good things because of South Park and a lot of people do credit South Park with helping us first get recreational weed in Colorado and then legalizing it by the time I was 16. I say that that's a good thing mostly because it has helped fund a lot of schools. I work as a paraprofessional in an elementary school and a good chunk of our funding has come from weed. Our school is still considered title one but we're a lot better off than a title one school in say Alabama mostly because of the legalization of marijuana. Honestly if you're ever get a chance to come to Colorado we are more than just South Park. We also have some really interesting stuff if you're ever in Boulder there's some really great food and just like a thriving culture of tech. If you spend time in Denver of course hit up Casa Bonita you can do a couple South Park tours but there's also things like the Santa Fe Art District and we have a really amazing downtown library and art museum that are right next to each other. Although we do have one cork about us on the same ballot that we just used to legalize psilocybin mushrooms we voted against being able to buy wine in the grocery store for doordash and other delivery apps to be able to bring you weed and beer and wine from said grocery stores because Colorado we want our legal weed we want our legal shrooms but fuck you the small liquor stores and the small dispensaries get to keep their doors open because we don't want gig workers having to deal with all that bullshit. And I think when South Park does do an episode about all this that's going to definitely be in there like Colorado legalized tripping balls is completely fine but don't you dare order a bottle of vodka on doordash God darn it little small businesses get to thrive. I think they're also going to start really making fun of Lauren bobert if they haven't already but like I think they're going to go down cuz she is she's like fucked up so much
It would definitely benefit the country and if we did it right it would save lives and help the NHS massively
We should have a country wide vote on it and let the public decide on it not the government
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Even if we do that, it's not like The Tories would do anything, they don't give a shit about what the general public want considering we didn't vote for Sunak or Truss to be in power.
Nice idea but how is that vote going to happen? Multiple official government petitions have been made on drug reform that have exceeded the 100k votes needed for discussion to take place in parliament, and every single time the result is the same: it's brought up to an audience of about 10 people and the conclusion is "we won't be changing laws, sorry try again next time". We have no power.
What your taking about is an actual democracy, which we don't really live in. We just get a choice of 2 lame parties full of corruption and no clue on what they're doing.
I gained a new level of respect for this man after seeing this, he's absolutely smashed it. I love the message
I've been severely depressed, and have first hand felt the incredible positive effects of Magic Mushrooms and LSD. Now I only get depressed when I think about how these drugs are still illegal, stigmatised, and how their prohibition has set back scientific research into their benefits by decades!
Thankyou for doing this stand mate. I'm on a medical prescription for Cannabis because the tabs I was on were messing my insides up. This means so much to me 🙏🙏🙏
In England?
@@chettagirl01 there's medical cannabis here in England. You have to pay for the initial review, you have to pay for further appointments and also pay for your actual prescription.
It's more expensive that just buying it illegally but you 'sort of' don't have to worry about the police anymore. But you do. So many of the police have absolutely NO IDEA you can get weed legally and even if you show them your med card they'll still likely take it off you and it'll be a bitch to get it back off them.
There's thousands of patients in the UK but most of the police have absolutely no idea and think that the med card is just some fake shit for ppl to try and get away with it. It's stupid.
I have a condition that makes me eligible for it, but I don't see it as worth it so I'll just keep buying black market, I have good plugs and I trust them and have been using them for years so I'm not arsed.
@@thesinslap7183 thanks I have depression I heard they use them to heal it in America
@@chettagirl01 yeah you can get it for depression and also anxiety.
I was going to get it for my bowel disease but now I also have PTSD so I might try again and get medical weed soon. Hopefully.
what a legend for speaking out about this, its weird to think the majority of the country agrees about this, except from a small population of people inside parliament, this is the only reason why this stuff is still illegal, we need to do away with parliament if you ask me, its an out dated system.
Parliament is a great system. The people in it are outdated
Agreed. The US made ridiculous amounts of money following the legalisation of cannabis, and this country needs all the help it can get. Legalise, decriminalise (to an extent) and watch as the stoners pull this country out the hell hole it's in right now 😃
All of a sudden the population will forget about stoners and have cafes everywhere.
Eh it's not like the potheads would add extra possible money into circulation, but yeah pretty much agree. Much less money lost on policing it, revenue taken away from the illegal market into the taxpayers pocket.
I'm someone Left-leaning, and what I know is, you need to speak to Righty in their own language.
So one angle of attack would be that it's well documented now, not just on magical thinking paranoid hippy sites, that treat it like it cures all diseases and death itself, suppressed by evil big pharma.
Instead, it's in encyclopedia britannica, that USA cracking down on it with literally racist Reefer Madness propaganda, against Mexicans and Black Americans.
You could point out it's said Queen Victoria used tea made from it for menstrual cramps - appeal to tradition.
Remember: being as unbiased as possible is very, very important in changing your opponents minds.
Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome is extremely rare, but real, really only seen in the USA where people take large amounts of ARTIFICIALLY strong extracts, in ludicrous doses.
Or I'm not sure it's proven yet, but seems entirely possible someone with cardio-respiratory vulnerabilities, could indeed die from taking a huge hit from a dab rig.
Then: "Don't be perfectionist like those lefty do-gooders, surely you understand the concept of accepting the lesser evil if necessary? Better this than the carnage of Binge Drink Britain tying up the emergency services quite as much"
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Drugs that aren't alcohol are a danger to society. Now excuse me whilst I smash ten pines, give myself blood poisoning and call it a hangover.
Imagine if drugs were legal, people would still drink 10 pints but they would do other drugs as well. 👃
That's something that drives me nuts and I'd like to refer to a hangover I had once I got so drunk the following day I got up to make breakfast and halfway through I had to stop cause I felt sick and I layed down on the sofa in my living room and after about 30 minutes I was sick all over the table and the floor and I had to go back to bed to sleep some of it off.
Now compare that to when I smoke cannabis and I'll refer to a night I had two days ago I was at home and I ate a strong edible I had about 250mg or so and to put that into perspective a dose for an average person is below 40mg and all I did was I watched a movie and ate chocolate and the next day I woke up and yes I was a little bit high from the night before but that only lasted a couple of hours compared to getting drunk one night and getting alcohol poisoning for two days.
Not just Mushrooms but there are so many people who would benefit from weed being legal. Not just people with stuff like anxiety and depressions but people going through cancer treatments, recovering from surgery, people with complex long term health conditions like MS or arthritis. I have an issue with my arm from a fall a few months ago. I often get recurring pain. The science shows that weed would be a beneficial form of pain relief for my issue.
I've been taking CBD oil based on promising studies on using it to treat bipolar disorder (it has both antidepressant and antimanic properties so pretty much ideal) and its been helping me so damn much. I had such awful side effects on the meds I had been trialled on before and they didn't even touch the symptoms so I just felt mentally and physically awful the whole time. But since taking the CBD oil for the past several years, I've not had a severe mood episode (Used to get multiple per year, often a few a month when it was really bad). Its helped me so much with anxiety too and whilst I still get a lot of pain from my EDS, its a lot less than it can be without. If I'm having a bad pain day, I just take some more to help. Good for me given that the only over the counter pain killers which work for me is ibuprofen and that's not really ideal to take with EDS. So I try to limit taking that to during my period.
I'm not sure if I would actually smoke weed again though given that I know that the THC component can worsen psychosis in those already susceptible (which I am) but having it legal would mean that I could actually get the CBD oil prescribed as a proper medication rather than the mental health team having to note that I'm supposedly "unmedicated" which is limiting my access to other mental health treatments like talk therapy (because that makes sense). Plus it would be way cheaper on prescription.
My best experiences were on shrooms.
I can honestly say no one in the group was ever violent, turned crazy or irrational. Funny as hell but easy to be with. No ego and genuinely caring about each other.
Everything moved as if you could see the atoms vibrating and somehow understood why even with closed eyes. Fear wasn't an issue because everything felt like it made sense.
Positive Ideas bombarded your brain. Humour could be found in anything.
Just the simple act of eating an apple was the most amazing experience you'd never had before and blew your head off at the same time.
The following day i would feel tired but mentally as if a new dawn had taken place in my mind.
Like anything in life was possible and all negativity had gone.
Then come Monday morning when i would go back to work and listen to all my moaning colleagues still hung over from Saturday night, complaining about the boss, the wife and the football score and being broke after their Saturday pub crawl where someone started a fight, snogged someone else's girlfriend or vom'd in a taxi.
Alternatively spending the weekend buying loads of material junk they didn't need in an attempt to find happiness and make the neighbours jealous.
The experience seemed to make me more aware of how odd that behaviour was. Like everything was meaningless so they might as well bin it off soaked in alcohol and acting like an arse.
Ive never forgot those days 25 years on or the difference between what is classed as the societal norm often drunk fighting getting arrested, smashing stuff up, A@E visits, being a loud mouth dangerous loon or the alternative, being classed as a drop out druggy for ingesting a natural substance that we picked ourselves and nothing dramatic outside our minds happened.
Comedian Bill hicks was spot on!
5 drunk guys start a fight.
5 stoned guys start a band..
RIP Mr Hicks.
I passed two of my engineering apprenticeship exams with distinctions only hours after coming down off shrooms. Not something i advise, it wasn't planned, not something ive bragged about for obvious reasons. Best to not let that out in job interviews, but its a fact.
So i wasn't surprised to hear that new studies have found it is a good treatment for severe depression.
I think the future will show that the corporate Pharma industry that reaps massive dividends from giving kids Anti depressants that often lead to zombie unfeeling reckless spending, sometimes suicidal thoughts (side effect of prozac) manufactured it purely for the profits.
Best way i can describe it for me.
It was like a natural reset button that removes the corrupted files on a hard drive for a while.
Not everyone has this experience but usually its because of some unrelated trauma in their past from something not dealt with that is also quite common in society. Usually Something very negative.
This often leads to addiction of anything consumable.
Not just drugs.
Sex, alcohol, gambling, crime, shopping, porn, violence, guns, fanatical religions, video games you name it.
Russell.
Bill Hicks and George Carling would be very proud of you for this. Well done sir.
in the case of weed it also means you don't have to worry about dodgey weed mixed with some other susbstances to make it more potent
The conversations we were having as kids growing up are getting more traction, albeit very, very slowly....it won't fly in this country though until we have radical change at the top, which I'm not sure will or can happen 😭
We have to overthrow the government
Honestly? It was Tory MP Crispin Blunt who was pushing Boris to loosen regs to these weird, interesting fungi can be researched. I'm not in the Labour Party but I know a couple who are, and I'm urging them to send a message up the chain *now* that this issue needs seizing from the Tories and Lib Dems before next GE. The way I see it though, only two good possible outcomes at this point.
Sitting government brings it in before next GE, or the opposition do when they win. It does seem to be a matter of when now, not if. Data can be found about 70 years of trends, and it looks like this lot in office are heading for a panning like when New Labour won. It would be nice to have New New Labour this time. That was decent but not good enough. Time to learn from the mistakes and one truly terrible decision in particular. You all know what I'm talking about.
At last some sense around the subject along with a sense a humour. Absolutely brilliant.
Growing up as a teenager through the 2010s is realising Russel Howard shaped all your political views on Russel Howard’s good news. And I’m ever thankful for it
Billions of pounds in the hands of criminals, that could be going towards education, healthcare, technology grants etc. It's about time we tried something different, surely.
Those criminals are the government, the police would have to do real work. We have an analogue government in a digital world.
Thank you for bringing this to such a large audience Russell 💙
THANK YOU FOR USING YOUR VOICE FOR THIS RUSSELL!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍 It absolutely needs to happen, its worked so well in Portugal 💜
"Why don't you please us and legalize it!"
Mojo Nixon , _I like Marijuana_
"Legalize it
Don't criticise it
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Having dealt with major depression, suicidal thoughts and PTSD as well as being an ex addict, I can still say my past experiences with drug use was the defining factor in my recovery and change in perspective. It may not work for everyone but the fact such a monumental discovery has been made time and time again yet blatantly ignored for trivial reasons is truly ridiculous.
BIG UP!!! Well done for using your platform to speak facts!! Big love ❤
My thoughts exactly Russell
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We need some Tegridy real bad.
I've not heard of that drug, do you snort it or smoke it? :)
@@licensetodrive9930 you take it in through your third eye.
The biggest issue I can see is that a whole string of governments from about 1860 onwards have come to the conclusion that the opposite of addiction is sobriety. In reality the opposite of addiction is community. Betel have proved this beyond reasonable doubt. IE they have less relapses after 10 years than UK government programmes do over 3. The "Glasgow project" was proving the same which the government did not like so they pulled the funding.
Yup! There was a comic drawn to talk about a lab study on rats and addiction where they actually forcibly made rats addicted to drugged sugar water and they found that when given a properly large cage with lots of enrichment and access to food & regular plain water and enough other rats to have a decent social environment, the rats chose to stop drinking from the drugged water. They only kept going in the cages with zero enrichment and where they were kept in isolation. And the same is true of people.
Yep. There's a TED talk related to this about depression. The opposite of depression isn't sheer ecstacy. It's a sense of vitality, feeling alive, and being able to both feel, and reason with your emotions appropriately. Think the guy's name is Andrew Solomon. This has reminded me to go add that to my various Psych / mental health playlists, thanks!
At least medicinal cannabis is legal, I got it prescribed and managed to kick opiates cold turkey. Terrible month but no more pills.
seems strange to me that the government can limit what naturally occurring plants etc we can put in our bodies, but are quite happy to allow booze and pills to freely be available.
Maybe it has something to do with the people making the money from the latter?
Until we have politicians who don't have a vested interest in one side over another, we will never be given the best options for ourselves or even, god forbid, free will.
I mean if they just made weed legal and taxed it like America does they'd make a killing but they don't wanna do that bc they already make a killing from it. The UK was once the largest manufacturer and exporter of medical weed. They are still very very big but no longer the biggest. They're already making enough money off it by selling to other countries and convicting people of weed related crimes to bother with it.
@@thesinslap7183 just imagine the resources available if you stopped chasing after kids with a bag of weed in their pockets, and locking people up for dealing.
Imagine the tax from it if you taxed it liked cigs, imagine the money going back into the NHS that can deal with alcoholism and cancer from cigarettes, both things you don't get with weed.
Why do we let dinosaurs create our laws still?
I am old, but even I look at some of these people and wonder why they don't just bloody retire....
went off on a tangent there, but you get the point :P
@@lfcbpro you can get cancer from smoking weed, burning anything produces carbon monoxide and weed also produces a lot more tar than cigarettes. It just contains less carcinogenic compounds, provided its grown properly and doesn't have added shit. Plus here most people will smoke spliffs anyway so they're smoking tobacco at the same time as the weed anyways.
That's one problem legalisation would solve, no more laced weed or weed grown with harmful pesticides, no more plastic bottle bongs leeching harmful chemicals into your lungs. Not having fear of law enforcement bc you just wanted to have some fun.
It would decrease underage use if they had to go in a store and show ID to get weed, sure some would find a way to get it anyway like they do with alcohol but I'd argue rn it's easier to get weed for yourself underage than it is alcohol.
Every single country that has decriminalisation of all drugs has proven time and time again its the right thing to do. Less overdoses, less violent drug related crimes, less violent deaths, less young people getting their lives ruined for smoking a spliff with their buddies in the wrong spot and getting arrested.
No more people getting fired for having THC in their system. If people can have a drink after work why cant I choose the healither option and have a fat joint after work to relax? Instead I have to drink poison if I don't want to get fired?
The UK is backwards, and it likely always will be.
Just wanna state I have no problem with alcohol, its just a good example. I've done pretty much every drug under the sun apart from heroin and meth.
I was addicted to coke for a while, was an extremely heavy weed smoker and even tho its just weed, its still not good. Was even addicted to alcohol for about a month. If I was able to get help with using these, and properly have the support around me I needed, I wouldn't have had those issues in the first place.
I now just smoke a gram of weed on the weekends only, and don't drink very often or touch any other drugs. I do still smoke tobacco with my weed, which I need to think about getting off at some point in the near future.
These videos are just getting better and better, Russell you have really found your place here
I am grateful for this discussion beeing taken on mainstream tv, and with perfect excelent points..
It'd free up a lot of prison space, too, then we can crack down on proper crimes; no more soft sentences for killing someone while drink driving and such.
the toad thing is deadly true. im an exotic pet keeper and it was extremely difficult to find toads anywhere, and it still is.
And the whipped cream is because of nitros oxide (laughing gas) used to make it
It’s because certain toads secretion is used to acquire dmt
Respect for bringing this to the people
I hope it happens
The drug problem in UK isn't illegal drugs its prescription drugs look it up its frightening
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I've heard a lot of tripping stories, and they are very exciting, i would love to try magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some, Is there any realiable source I can purchase from??
I'm so interested in the experience but am terrified of having a bad trip
Mushrooms aren't like acid. You don't hallucinate, you just see some colors, and things move. I've never heard of anyone having a bad trip on shrooms.
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Got psych's...
This whole thing is pretty new to me, can I try 3grams?
Yeah, he's got magic mushrooms, LSD, dmt etc
I’ve heard excellent things about psilocybin (mushrooms) being used to treat depression which hasn’t been helped by traditional medicine.
Spot on well said Russell 👍
spread the word people we need this im sick of it hide if i smoke a bit of weed and its so hard to find where to buy .
I'd suggest growing it but I don't know what your living situation is like.
Saw Russel live a good few years back, proper funny bloke haha.
Thanks for talking about this, I need to smoke weed these days to eat, otherwise I'm rarely hungry due to stomach problems.
Sometimes because you get your news from mainstream media you're factually wrong about things but this is spot on and can't fault what you're saying, including the reasons for the UK govt treating this subject like a hot potato. Personally I take LSD or mushrooms every 2-3 years for what I call a clear out. It doesn't always give me what I want but it always gives me what I need and I always feel much more positive for the next year or so.
The older I get the more I realise loads of the genuinely happy people have the clear out. Every year or couple of years or even 6 months for some. They all have the clear out. I never understood why until I tried it
Weed isn't legal in the Netherlands.... All the states in the US that legalized it have a better framework then the Netherlands.
yep true ... but what made me laugh is that its illegal to smoke tobacco in the coffee shops !
Lets face it, aint nobody here smoking weed then going to rob a bank or even a shop, that sounds like alot of effort has to go into doing something like that, plus it will ruin your high
If you decriminalise drugs you can also make it safe for addicts to recover?? An addict is going to end up taking it anyway, that's the nature of addiction. If you give them a safe place to take it and tell them they're not going to get chucked into jail for possession, they'll be able to take it more safely and have less horrific accidents as a result.
Nice one seriously well done 😃☺
Less stress on the NHS and less public funds spent on time wasting police force.
Yes, a reduction in alcohol related crimes will benefit *everyone*.
The police like drugs to be illegal as it allows them to stop and search you in the street.
If drugs are found it also allows them to burgle your house and breach your right to privacy.
It would make it worse, if all the drunks on a friday night had taken drugs as well as alcohol it would be carnage
@@jakethemuss5678 Generally speaking you have a very bad time if you mix alcohol with most drugs so its not commonly sought out when there is a free choice and its generally warned against if you do seek drugs. Like with weed there is even a little rhyme which goes "weed before beer, you're in the clear, beer before weed, you won't succeed" because if you're stoned you just won't overdrink at all, maybe you'll have a single pint for a whole night or none at all (have seen this with multiple people whilst at uni). Way too chilled out. Drinking beer first and then smoking weed tends to make you throw up. So not a fun thing.
Plus just because something is made legal doesn't mean everyone will start using drugs. Or combining them.
@@AlexaFaie it wouldn't be weed drunk people were using, it would be harder drugs
It's extremely disheartening to be labeled a criminal for smoking a plant, especially for medical use. Imagine being a hard working person, respectful to people you meet and genuinely just try to be a good person, but get labeled a criminal for doing something soo innocent.
Thank you Russell, mushrooms changed my life for the better. And I don't partake regularly.
Thought I’d never do weed, I’ve seen how helpful it’s been to people I care about. My partner smokes and I don’t care, they feel calmer and less anxious when they use it. Yeah drugs have dangerous components to them, but with the right funding and research it can do so much good across the country. It just needs to be given the chance.
Look up to him ☝️☝️
I'm buzzed he's back. Love his shows. Russell Howard's mock the week.
Good work!
Completely agree, it's a no-brainer. The so called war on drugs will never end while drugs are controlled by organised crime groups. Legalise it, control it, tax it. The power is taken away from criminals instantly because drugs are available without resorting to crime. More importantly, help should be more available for people addicted to drugs, and scientists would be able to research the use of drugs in medicine, and not be restricted based on the law.
With pot as an example, I have always felt the resistance was funded by alcohol and cigarettes.
What about heroin
@@jakethemuss5678 Did you place that int he wrong place? Doesn't seem really relevant to my post. Or are you one of those people who simply go around saying 'provocative' things, thinking it makes them sound cool?
@@PtolemyJones just trying to get other peoples opinions,
@@jakethemuss5678 It wouldn't surprise me if heroin producers really liked it that pot became illegal.
Love ya Russ , well said !!
The government needs to get a grip and take its own advisory committee recommendation and decriminalise
You're awesome dude 😎
I feel like, if we make a lot if not every drug "legal" it will help every person who got addicted to any of these drugs whether they wanted to or not, and if we start the destigmatizion then kids will start to see these things as both normal and not something they feel left out of
It should be sold in pharmacies over the counter where you have to show ID regardless of age from there they look you up in a nationwide database
You’ll be restricted on the amount you can purchase in a given time varied on the drug and the harm effects, unfortunately people can’t be trusted to not abuse it for example MDMA.
Pure MDMA is fairly safe if taken at correct dosages but the problem arises that it’s just so good it can be very tempting to take it often but this is bad because it causes havoc on your seretonin system and is believed to be neurotoxic, a system which would force the person to only be able to purchase so many mg tablets within a 3 month period (Or whatever hard science determines to be reasonable) would be great
Similarly there should be a way to restrict yourself or have a court impose a restriction from buying certain drugs or all drugs over the counter to help people battening addiction and just people who can’t handle certain things in general.
Been saying This for absolute Years!!! 💯 xx
Definitely, let's legalize heroin 💉
Russell talks so openly about so much we need more people on the large platforms too speak up
Russell yelling "Sell my drugs!" Will probably be taken out of context, but it will still be hilarious
I've seen the effects of hard drugs directly so while being fine with decriminalising i'm very wary of where going down the road of legalisation will lead us but I also know narcotics officers who all say that, if they're honest, it's a losing battle and that we need to have an adult conversation about it as a country.
I've seen the effects too and people's lives are devastated but the fact remains that the people I knew got hold of them even though they were illegal. If people want to take drugs they will find them whether they are illegal or legal. If they are legal there are better pathways to helping addicts and at least the substances they take will be pure and safer.
I always wonder, how much of that is the actual drug, and how much is the social stigma, the economic hardship, and the need to get as much bang for your buck?
Heroin is injected because it is a lot stronger that way, but you can take it as a pill just fine.
Most heroin deaths come from needle wounds.
Most of the burden on society that addicts add is stealing to pay for their addiction. But heroin is dirt cheap to make. It is only expensive because the illegality causes supply chain issues.
If heroin addicts would switch to pills, not lose their social network, and at the cost of 2 euros a day, would they still be a drain on society? Or would they just be people who are weird for wasting their weekend with the TV off? Sure, they might live 5-10 years less on average than other people, but isn't that their choice to make?
@@bramvanduijn8086 Many true words here especially about the money. When I was in the hospital I was getting morphine every day and they gave me a bottle to last two weeks to go home with and it cost £9 on NHS prescription (that I didn't even have to pay!) I talked to a local homeless man that I know and he said that the liquid morphine solution that I was prescribed was every addicts preference if they could get it (which they rarely can). And I see a lot of addicts in my city who are missing limbs due to needle wounds turning. Do Heroin addicts live less time? I remember reading once that it doesn't affect your life expectancy but I could be wrong.
I feel very privileged to be able to watch this video smoking my prescribed cannabis. When it was legalised in the UK in November 2018, I was elated that we'd finally made a start. I've been better than ever mentally and physically - more so than any of the crap the gps had me taking.
Huge respect for speaking about this and brining it to peoples attention. Definitely time we view drugs differently in this country!
Most town centers smell of weed now if it was legal the whole county would stink of stale weed 😷
You'd prefer the WORSE stink of tobacco cigarettes that used to be commonplace? No thank you.
@@lmaskell5696 I'd prefer it if it didn't stink of smoke at all
a tab of acid stopped me from suicide one night and put me on the path to getting better after being able to look at my problems without my own bias. Of course it isn't for everyone but it has a bad rep and shouldn't. Also made me realise that my weed addiction was now furthering depression rather than helping like initially (Possible to the strength these days and not having access to milder stuff if it were legal) It's a hot topic but one that needs to be discussed as the benefits from these softer drugs far outweigh negatives. You never see stoned people or trippy people being aggressive in the streets. One of the American states that legalised it put millions from the profit into combatting the homeless epidemic, can't remember which though but it can be turned into such positive things if looked at from the right perspective.
Big episode speaking huge facts.
Brilliantly argued 👏👏👏
dont forget, if taxed and controlled least the quality should be better
I just wanna be able to smoke weed in public without having to worry about being arrested
I’m 100 percent with Russell here
Big up Russell for bringing the conversation of harm reduction and proper drug education to the mainstream. I'm a fully functioning university graduate with a job and a roof over my head and sometimes I do recreational drugs. Doing those drugs has not made me a lesser member of society. Often the problem is not with the drug itself, it's the lack of education surrounding it. Drugs would be safer if there were more laws to protect recreational drug users.
Man ive been saying this for like 15 years now. The evidence for legalising drugs is as clear as day.
I've been saying this for years. We should also be decriminalising s*x work, and put some of the taxes raised from that to ensure the safety of those workers. Again, it just makes sense.
I hope this come more into the light of mainstream in the UK
There is a big difference between decriminalisation and legalisation, Portugal has had a policy of decriminalisation of drugs since 2000 and has some rather astounding results including a huge reduction in drug related fatalities
I was on mushrooms with 4 of my friends this one time and we were tripping pretty hard, seeing sparks around the place and feeling wavey and all, was nice. We were sat in a circle and one of my friends moved to throw up and we all laughed at how he stumbled to spew over my mates sofa. During our laughing we didn't realize that he had choked an passed out. Moments and I mean moments when by and we laughed at his state but he couldn't breathe. He passed out and we stopped laughing and everysingle one of us realized something was horribly wrong. He'd stopped breathing and was lying in a pool of his sick....
Longer story short an ambulance was called, he was induced into a coma and when he woke up he had brain damage and to this day he can't remember what your name is if you walk out of the room.
Cherry on the cake is it was his first time doing it with us
Addendum: it works a lot easier if you use the Dutch word 'spijkerpoepen' - what an intriguing game:)
Mushrooms and Mary Jane for the win. 2 books = Dope Inc and Opium Wars should shed light on the history of this country and it's relationship with drugs!
honestly i think the majority of it is older people in the UK who hinder progress really badly, i can smoke 100 cigs a day and be in the pub 7 days a week and no one over the age of 40 even thinks its an issue, but smoke 1 joint and the older generation literally looks at you like you're street trash and want you arrested.
I want to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs
Weightlifting gerbil??? That completely destroyed me 😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣