If you look at the reactions on here from largely elderly (and thus likely voting) folk you will understand than any initiative like the Glasgow one will not get widespread support or last. Funding will be the issue but Westminster, scared of losing the older vote, will blame it on too liberal an approach, publicly funding drug abuse and other rubbish. That will, of course, be music to the ears of the all important and endless grey-topped, hang-em and flog-em voting block.

Only drama and one with an angle, I know, but the "Hamsterdam" episodes on The Wire gave an honest indication of what happens to projects like this. DER-obvious and highly effective but nevertheless shut down for "political" reasons. Too many vested interests in the fashionable "War on Drugs" and too many voters from the "Reefer Madness" generation.

And on current drug policy, if an alien came down to earth they would ask a lot of germane questions. For instance, why is it still legal to sell tobacco, but illegal to sell the considerably less harmful weed? How is policy on drugs made by people sitting in a room freely and legally swilling Scotch, a drug far more harmful and destructive than almost all proscribed drugs? And why does any responsible government not directly intervene in drug supply, rather than leave it to the "free market" who mix drugs with anything they like, murder anyone who disrupts their trade, leaves folk to die etc.?

If you look at the reactions on here from largely elderly (and thus likely voting) folk you will understand than any initiative like the Glasgow one will not get widespread support or last. Funding will be the issue but Westminster, scared of losing the older vote, will blame it on too liberal an approach, publicly funding drug abuse and other rubbish. That will, of course, be music to the ears of the all important and endless grey-topped, hang-em and flog-em voting block.

Only drama and one with an angle, I know, but the "Hamsterdam" episodes on The Wire gave an honest indication of what happens to projects like this. DER-obvious and highly effective but nevertheless shut down for "political" reasons. Too many vested interests in the fashionable "War on Drugs" and too many voters from the "Reefer Madness" generation.

And on current drug policy, if an alien came down to earth they would ask a lot of germane questions. For instance, why is it still legal to sell tobacco, but illegal to sell the considerably less harmful weed? How is policy on drugs made by people sitting in a room freely and legally swilling Scotch, a drug far more harmful and destructive than almost all proscribed drugs? And why does any responsible government not directly intervene in drug supply, rather than leave it to the "free market" who mix drugs with anything they like, murder anyone who disrupts their trade, leaves folk to die etc.?

Actually, it isn't . Look it up. And I am not talkin about skunk and other artificially enhanced versions.

What is utter nonsense, is people who still genuinely think it is utter nonsense Sadly, that goes back to the fact that the law will never change to any workable project so long as those who control the vote think it utter nonsense.

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The mental health angle with weed is still quite contested.