Fixed what, I was talking about the group of us at work, otherwise someone would have said.
He wipes the cocaine off it each time he makes a line.
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Just pop it through the wash in your pockets once a week. Easy clean licence 
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Cocaine clearly enhances driving ability.
The legislation goes deeper than that, there are legal limits on how much Cannabis and Cocaine that you can have in your system.
With a Chicken McFlurry to follow
Raised a fortune in taxes in both the US and Canada. Worth doing.
Iād be concerned about the impending MH crisis if I was the states, Iāve seen damage Cannabis does to long term users and itās not pretty.
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Fair point, but you could say the same about alcohol. At least when the cause is legal, the treatment is easier to obtain.
Iād guess that @daws1159 was specifically referring to the fact that prevalence of psychosis is particularly high amongst cannabis users, even compared with people who (ab)use alcohol (e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28492376/ ; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927252/). Although, it does seem that it is strong versions of cannabis which are responsible, and Iād have thought itās likely that legal versions would be much less strong
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Prohibition of anything the masses want never works and just puts money in the pocket of the criminal. The only exception to this is firearms. Looks at the mess created when to government tried to ban legal highs.
Legalise, produce a āsafeā product with controlled amounts of active ingredient, tax to the hilt and proper information on dangers.
Young people these days see alcohol and tobacco as dangerous because of the government campaigns but do not view illegal drugs in the same way.
Because, on the whole, a lot of substances arenāt as dangerous as tobacco or alcohol?
The illegality of drugs has very little to do with actual harm, and often more to do with other factors. Caffeine is doing our sleep a lot of damage, but that addiction is more a part of life than alcohol now.
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Multiple arguments pro and con, but make it legal, earn money from it, and then have more money to invest in support.
i would get behind this if i knew that it was how Govt spent money.
as an example Car tax/fuel duty does not go towards the roads and i doubt tax of cigarettes goes towards lung cancer research or treatment (other cancers are available), or to the NHS to help people quit smoking
it would be nice if it did but that isnāt how tax works
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and also that the Government needs to spend lots of money on things it canāt get via taxation
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There was an article around budget time a few years back which said the govt took Ā£57,000,000,000 from vehicle duty & fuel duty and it only needed Ā£8,000,000,000 for road maintenance which would keep roads in top condition, but they would never spend that much on road maintenance as it would make driving too pleasant.
Got a citation for the Ā£57bn figure? The RAC foundation say itās Ā£35bn
No idea where the figures that were reported (would have been a daily) came from as I say it was several years ago and caused quite a discussion at work at the time, as the council had first been getting pilloried for the state of the roads.
Looking at the graphs you can begin to see what must be linked to EVs, which will need to bridged.
Thereās pretty much only one tax pot anyway. NI is about 20% of the NHS budget.
Also, there will be other investment ringfenced out of the vehicle tax streams for electric and renewables, environment, and other. Itās not all about the roads (bearing in mind thereās council tax for that as well).
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Waking up from a very realistic dream where Iād won Ā£1million in a competition (from my bank so realism was low on that part). It was in my bank account and we were all excited because we would be able to buy a nicer house and other bits but then I had to wake up 