Want to get rid of synthetic cannabis? Legalize real cannabis
Published 2014— archived from the original weed.nz. NZ cannabis law has moved on since; read it as a snapshot of its time. For information & entertainment, not advice.
How in Gods name is America, the home of the homicidal war on drugs now more liberal on Cannabis than we are?
Have we managed to appreciate the madness that synthetic cannabis is legal yet more harmful than organic cannabis which is illegal?
I find the current moral panic over synthetic cannabis difficult to become concerned with when alcohol is FAR more lethal and dangerous. If this was really about public health we would burn the breweries and napalm KFC. The Psychoactive Substances Act has regulated the market, slashing the number of retailers from 4000 to less than 180 while throwing dozens of products off the market.
Tight fisted Government regulation via the PSA is the answer, synthetic cannabis however is a stupid question.
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