420 Cannabis Picnic - Why So Many Police ?

[bad company]

Mr Gearchange said:

PH XKR said:

Never heard of him but to attribute his success to weed, I'd imagine without it he might have achieved more.

He believed it to be beneficial to his work.

But since you have never heard of him - and he was a bona fide genius, I'm going to err on the side of the highly decrorated professor of astrophysics rather than the ill informed misanthrope posting ignorant invective.

I'm old enough to have fond memories of a time when we could debate and disagree on PH without calling people names.

[Oakey]

Esseesse said:

Police forces can't cope because sentencing is so pathetic surely? If there was some deterrent value in the sentences dished out then there would be less instances needing policing?

Right, because that was so successful in the US

[rb5er]

Esseesse said:

Police forces can't cope because sentencing is so pathetic surely? If there was some deterrent value in the sentences dished out then there would be less instances needing policing?

You want to imprison everyone that smokes a joint?

Would you like to pay for that? How many new prisons would we need to build to house 1million people? How many staff?

[PH XKR]

[vetrof]

[e21Mark]

rb5er said:

Esseesse said:

Police forces can't cope because sentencing is so pathetic surely? If there was some deterrent value in the sentences dished out then there would be less instances needing policing?

You want to imprison everyone that smokes a joint?

Would you like to pay for that? How many new prisons would we need to build to house 1million people? How many staff?

In fairness he said no such thing did he?

[Derek Smith]

Esseesse said:

Police forces can't cope because sentencing is so pathetic surely? If there was some deterrent value in the sentences dished out then there would be less instances needing policing?

Smoking weed doesn't require policing now. I'm not sure how draconian laws would change that.

Police forces can't cope because they haven't the staff. They can't get to burglaries now, and staffing levels are going to decrease. They have to prioritise and a bit of weed ain't going to tick many boxes.

[rb5er]

e21Mark said:

In fairness he said no such thing did he?

Not those words but what is he insinuating then?

[pc.iow]

rb5er said:

e21Mark said:

In fairness he said no such thing did he?

Not those words but what is he insinuating then?

It would put the price up so make it a better investment for the criminals.