tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post6183456015099465596..comments2024-03-25T18:49:00.608+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: Nutts and yet more NuttsCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-23786142372079178622009-11-14T10:27:31.408+00:002009-11-14T10:27:31.408+00:00I actually have a certain amount of sympathy for t...I actually have a certain amount of sympathy for the view that cannabis should be legalised - but its supporters do themselves no favours in my eyes by using "it is less dangerous than alcohol" as one of the main planks of their argument. An appeal to the principle of liberty would be much more convincing.<br /><br />I also suspect that if cannabis was legalised, it would become impossible for cannabis users to hold down most kinds of responsible job because employers would introduce an overt testing regime - the dope lobby need to be careful what they wish for.<br /><br />I previously mentioned the issue <a href="http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-sort-of-smoke.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-47075372799407497412009-11-14T00:56:42.262+00:002009-11-14T00:56:42.262+00:00Yes. I was going to blog on the same thing. Glad y...Yes. I was going to blog on the same thing. Glad you picked it up too. For me, Brendan's second article is the final word on the Nutt affair. <br /><br />Legalising cannabis is an article of principle for ageing '60s radicals and vigorous young BBC staffers alike. Their tolerance to this particular substance is one of the few things that makes them believe (quite wrongly IMO) that they are liberals. Hence, Nutt is their hero<br /><br />Like their opposition to nuclear power (see Diane Abbot's hilarious arguments on This Week last night), defending 'pot' is an integral part of the donkey-jacket brigade's political make-up. The thing is, I happen to agree that cannabis shouldn't be a class C drug as well. I just don't want to see a crack-down elsewhere to make way for it. But then I actually <i>am</i> a liberal (in the uncorrupted sense of the word).Christopher Snowdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.com