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The Decriminalisation of Cannabis
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The Decriminalisation of Cannabis We are all drug users: we smoke, we drink coffee and alcohol; when we have a headache we take a painkiller. We use these drugs to help us to relax or to combat pain. However if we abuse these drugs we pay for it, sometimes with our lives. Over 125,000 people die from alcohol abuse; 400,000 die from tobacco related diseases; deaths from overdoses range among 14,000 and 27,000. However, there is still one drug that combats pain and helps the user to relax. Yet to have any amount in your possession can carry a sentence of up to 3 years in prison and deal it up to 5 years. This drug is cannabis, the chosen social lubricant of over 3 million people in the UK. This country can accept drugs that could kill them and yet a drug that even after prolonged use can never...
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