UK is one of the biggest producers and exporters of cannabis in the world, Theresa Mays husband has made millions from it - yet we criminalise our own people for it.

Smoke weed and chill, Drink alcohol and fight, Sniff coke and rage

Kamala Harris has sent thousands of black men to jail for smoking cannibis lol

I dont smoke it but i totally agree it should be legal .

I used to smoke solids/resin years ago recreationally, you couldn't get green back then. After working in factories on sewing machines and other heavy manual jobs, my hands, knees and back are shafted and the govt expects me to work till I'm 70 the whispers say, they've got no fkg chance, anyway, I now smoke green at night for the pain I'm in daily, it relaxes me, calms my mind in the madness that is todays world and helps me sleep. I smoke it in my own house and nowhere else. I don't hurt anyone, cause any trouble and I'm not violent or drunk. I can still fully function in my job, I can still drive my car daily, I couldn't care less if it's legal or not, I use it instead of pumping myself full of pharmacutical drugs, who in this day and age would trust pharma now, I never have trusted pharma and I'm unjabbed thankfully. No, I'll smoke my green and be happy. The woman saying smoking green leads to crime is talking utter shit, crime is commited for many reasons.

People dont care if its legalised, there going to do it anyway.

Taking cannabis doesn't lead to harder drugs. I've been taking it for 30 bloody years!

That woman hasn't got a clue! Legalize it!

We're gonna need something to numb the hell that's coming I suppose

The best result with the legislation of cannabis will be the products that can be made with the whole plant, paper, Biodegradable plastic, Fabrics and let's not forget Medicine. The list goes on.

Canada made it legal few years ago. Nothing bad happened. More people didn't suddenly start using it and everthing just goes on like it did. No big deal.

I am from the UK living in Australia for 28yrs. I was diagnosed with CRPS in 2010. In 2011 my husband found me dead in bed. I was in a comma and on life support also needing dialysis for nearly 3 weeks, due to the medication prescribed. Up until 4 years ago, I had to have a general anesthetic every 3mths for a full body wash and toe nails cut and finger nails cut. I was bed bound for 8yrs. Since 4yrs ago I trialled Medical Canabis, I inhale 2 different types of bud and consume Canabis oil. In 4yrs I've taken NO OPIOIDS, I can now shower because the water doesn't hurt me, my husband and I can now be intimate after 10yrs of sleeping with pillows between us... I would be dead now without Medical Canabis ❤

Legalise and tax it.

Pharmaceutical medicines are far more dangerous. Yet they are legal.

Alcohol is available everywhere, yet they tell me I can't consume a plant... There's no logic

Alcohol is a gateway drug far more than cannabis

Briton should back cannabis for everything smoking medication and hemp for use in almost every industry it's too good not to use and that lady's is full of shit lmfao

Once it's legal it stops being a gateway drug. To acquire cannabis currently requires interaction with the criminal world, people who are more than happy to offer you something a little stronger.

Britain used to lead the world when it made decisions - now it wanders aimlessly behind other countries. Let's face it, Britain could sell the stuff to other countries and produce taxable income for the UK. Instead it is imported - untaxed, along with migrand drug dealers.

Same with drinking anc drinking kills more. So is she saying that should be banned too.

People still get it, you may as well legalise it and tax it rather than the money just going to drug dealers. This is from someone who doesn’t smoke.

Cannabis is less harmful than alcohol. If you go to an emergency department at the weekend anywhere in the UK. It will be full of alcohol related patients and no cannabis related patients. That's a fact.

100% should be legalised we use it for medical used

Cannabis, tobacco and coffee were my 3 vices and didn’t even get a sniffle during the plandemic

I live in manchester i have LEGAL medical weed ... its better in a lot of ways than he street shit that stuff gives me anxiety ... bring in more weed and less immigrants

As a chronic pain sufferer I say yes. However, not under direct Government control. Private licenced firms only.

I smoke weed once a month. It's like alcohol, some people can have safe fun with it, others should not touch it

I know more people who either do smoke it or have smoked it. Than one's who haven't. But it's not the smokers getting into trouble, it's the ones drinking and on coke.

Yes we should I smoke it every morning for depression

We should have legalised it like 10-20 years ago 😂

The university of Birmingham and York have stated in a joint study that cannabis cant even trigger psychosis or Schizophrenia.. so where is the research coming from to within places such as the NHS to state otherwise?

You tax tobacco, you tax alcohol. You'd be silly not to govt. Make it safe, tax it. And keep the smell in the coffee shops...

Please legalise

Smoked it for 30 years , never touch hard drugs and never drank .

should bee legalized years ago

So you wanna ban tobacco and vapes, but cannabis is OK 😂 hypocrisy at the highest.

Started smoking when i was 17' now 55, never tried any other drug and i don't drink' i stopped smoking when i was 40' But now at my age and have serious nerve damage to my spine' i actualy started smoking a little bit again every now and again' Really helps with the pain....

Legalize/tax/direct revenue to education

Really hard to defend illegal pot when you compare its effects to alcohol. And nowadays, with fentanyl lacing everything, better to have a regulated supply sold legitimately.

The money would be a massive boost to the British economy. People who are going to do it, do it anyway. Might as well make money from them.

Paracetamol poisoning millions every day buy it over the counter alcohol kills

I have never in my 12 years of smoking weed have i ever thought i want to try harder drugs. Alcohol is the gateway as it lowers inhibitions

Funny how alcohol is never considered a gateway drug when everyone ive ever known to take harder drugs said it came from drinking on nights out, NEVER through cannabis!

This is not a gateway drug I have been smoking it since I was 18

The successful Dutch, Canadian and Portuguese models are leading by example.

What's the logic of legal tobacco, legal alcohol but illegal cannabis?

Yes! 💯 I don't smoke it but yes! Better than alcohol

Never been a valid reason for it to have been banned in the first place!

green is good.! it’s certainly better then white or brown.. 😉 ✌🏻🌏🇦🇺🤘🏻

Smoked weed for 30 years, never touched another drug ever. Gateway drug ????? Lol

Homelessness is a gateway drug, not cannabis.

I dont want to see people smoking it in the streets, but home use or designated areas I think are fine.

she didnt see cannabis problems in prison, she saw synthetic cannabinoid use in prisom

Shouldn’t she have been stopping the drugs going in to prison in the first place !!!!! That’s why they’re leaving wrecked as a rock star

It's a gateway to get off harder drugs

@ 2:05 YES YES YES! Legalise it and tax it. Undercut the black market and watch tax revenues skyrocket. The police and justice system will also be freed up to focus on real crime.

Yes 100% the amount of money they’d make off of taxing it alone would fund the NHS. Cannabis use is so widespread and more common than you’d imagine and virtually harmless in small doses. It has medicinal benefits which have been researched thoroughly! Majority of people would rather buy it from a dispensary too and could consume it in a safe and controlled atmosphere like in Amsterdam.

Thank you, gb news. You do tackle the issues of the nation, and this is one of them. The legal cannabis market in the u.k. is a joke with substandard cannabis being issued to unwell patients lining the pockets of foreign nations. That women is the long-term effects of cannabis... ie. The stigma in this country is sickening... again, silly women, try going prison?!?, you'll come out with a spice addiction not cannabis...

Yes! Tax it out into dispensaries with serious, serious license checks.

1971 drug act needs updating

Criminal records but if you're a MPs husband Mr may biggest production of cannabis

💯 of course it’s Gods gift 🌱

Shouldn't be fined at all! The hypocrisy behind one of the worlds biggest exporters of cannabis, telling their nationals its illegal. If its illegal for us it should be the same for them. DISGUSTING.

Anyone using the argument "what if someone turns up to work stoned" is beyond asinine, what if someone turns up to work drunk and causes an incident? Yet I hear no call for the criminalisation of alcohol.

That bloke on the right of the screen should really do some proper research

Criminalising people doesn't work.

Yes but not so the government can tax the sht out of it

People should not be criminalised for using drugs like cannabis, as an adult if you want to smoke at the weekend instead of drinking why is that a bad thing

That decision is easily informed by examining the ramifications of doing this in other countries.

Coming from South Africa I can tell you with certainty that UK weed is awful majat! Regulating weed will make it cheaper and quality will improve. Aunty Maisie here should seriously smoke a J and think again.

If drinking Alcohol was invented today, it would be illegal. Every cocaine user has drank alcohol, so Alcohol must also be a gateway drug.

Thousands die every year from tobacco, alcohol, prescription drugs, even sugar. Not one person has ever died from cannabis overdose (You would have to smoke 1500lbs in 15 minutes) It's about profits, not safety.

Skunk is too smelly. Old school weed or hashish doesn't stink out the whole street.

Absolutely yes! I've been smoking it everyday since 1989. I'm hardly ever ill.

Only an issue BECAUSE it is illegal, without being pushed away from mainstream society most would never go on to hard drugs.

I think we need a decent legalisation campaign for recreational use and for more discussions in the news and for medical cannabis to be widely available on the NHS.

Legalise drugs and Stop Benefits. We're now in a situation where drug taking is widespread and taxpayers are paying for people to sit around all day long smoking dope and doing nothing while claiming benefits. I live on a large council estate, so I know what happens. If we decriminalise cannabis, then we should should stop all benefits, except to those with genuine physical disabilities. Otherwise we will have more people stoned all day long and doing nothing. But if they had to work, then they would just use cannabis for recreation rather than all day long.

She just pin pointed the problem they come into prison clean and leave addicted to worse, then prisons are the problem

I don't smoke anything,but a mild varient should obviously be legalised to prevent our new migrant drug gangs obtaining vast sums of money.

People moaning about the smell of weed when each strain smells different 🫣 and these smells are actually terpenes the same that you find in lemons, lavender, pine etc… these people are clueless arrogant anti natural medicine hating people who should stay in their own lane 🍁 💚 💨

Do we really want most of the country walking around Stoned.

If taxed. Itll still cost more and push people to the black market

That woman can piss off she smiles when the guy says it's not a gateway drug 😂

A prison governor vs a neurologist who should we listen to? hmmmmm The issue with this country, is the older generation who were fed propaganda by the gov/media about cannabis, who say it's bad but have never actually used it or have any real education on it..

Dalgety grows high Thc in the UK, it's run by Jackie Smith (ex labour home secretary) and the ex police chief constable of Staffordshire. This monopoly on growing cannabis for medical use in the UK is not on, aren't we supposed to be a free market economy? Where are the licenses for people who want to provide organic craft cannabis to those who want it?

Prison Guvnor .. Says they go into prison clean, and come out on cannabis or worse . Just me wondering what's wrong with this picture ? 😳

No because the price will rise from a consistent £10 per gram

I got 18 month probation and 120hr this month for 20 small plants to treat PTSD. The police tried producing fake documents at court. Who is the criminal 🤯

You could certainly use some.

100% in favor of legalized, take it out of the criminals hands and earn some Money.

Yes cannabis should be legal!!

3:40 Vanessa Frake-Harris MBE is effectively arguing for regulation here. If we want to protect vulnerable people then surely the best way forward is proper labelling and quality control rather than leaving the production and distribution of cannabis to the black market.

💯. Money tree

I think yes, as many countries now have done. Although something tells me it will cause problems here and I'm not entirely sure why

So, if money can be made from it, it's okay? Hmmmm, it's only illegal, because it's not taxable? See what's happening here?

Scientifically our bodies are designed to use these compounds . It's health benefits are long proven . The vulnerable are using cocaine and fentanyl and alcohol which is legal and far more unhealthy than any of these . Don't legalise it and fuel the drug gangs and violence and destruction of the youth.

Nothing against cannabis but I think Mr Biden smokes way too much lol

Is alcohol used is a controlled sterile environment? Are the venerable people protected from alcohol?

When you at war with drugs for over 40 years and loosing you have to try something radical. Tax it and regulate it and take the legs from under the street gangs at the same time. Plus allow upto 2 plants to grown in homes. The amount of revenue would be huge brought into the tax system. It will happen it’s just a question of time.

The expert saying it’s a low risk of psychosis is 1 in 10000, that’s not a low risk if everyone was smoking it that would be at least an extra 6500 people for the NHS and mental health services to deal with! They can’t cope as it is. All the people I know who smoke it are complete mongs with no job and on sick with mental health but that seems to be acceptable now in the UK. Most of the school and mass shooters in USA regularly smoked cannabis, it is a dangerous drug and causes a lot of social problems no matter what these experts say.