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Brent Jenkins wrote: If South Africa sees a reduction in crime, and increase in tax revenue, better health (including mental health), safety, security and prosperity
From cannabis? Do you have any idea what it does to people? Makes them lazy and causes mental health issues.
If you want to increase GDP and tax revenues legalise cocaine instead!
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I completely agree with you, it'll be a disaster in my opinion.. however, many others see the supposed positives..
OriginalGriff wrote: What it will hopefully do is remove the criminal element from the equation to an extent: legalise the lot, tax it, open shops selling guaranteed quality goods. The punters get what they already get - but more consistently - and government gets revenue instead of criminals. win - win, from what I can see.
Personally, I don't really want my family to grow up in a country full of half-witted junkies.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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A few states in the US have legalised it too, waiting for the fall out from that...
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I hope you're comfortable. Except for the already huge increases in tax revenue, you're going to wait quite some time to see any other noteworthy fallout.
Immanentize the Eschaton!
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We will see a reduction in crime but no increase in tax revenue. Only the ban on possession, private cultivation, and private use has been declared unconstitutional. Later on this year we expect some government initiated hearings on legalization for medical use.
This case was one initiated against the government by an individual, i.e. a suit the government lost, but the medical use hearings will be more at the level of organizations petitioning the government, and only if they are successful will the taxable sale of weed become legal.
Immanentize the Eschaton!
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But, will that be a better way of life than FaceBook ?
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Ain't that cool, man ? *pough*
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I think it is ok to legalize it. Other drugs like alcohol is legal and much more a lot of medicaments are legal because prescribed by a doctor....
There are persons which seems to be creative with drugs like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkUpfw4Hf3w
Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues (Live) - YouTube
or also janis Joplin and most probably lot more....
... but more or less only for a short(er) period.
Personally I tried Cannabis several times, I felt only disadvantages.
!!!But on the other hand, a real life Report:
For my wife who had a terrible illness (which she stopped by the decision to stop her life) caused by a virus (Meningitis/Encephalitis what else), cannabis was a really wonderful help for here to facilitate the spastic paralysis.
My two Cents 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Show banker's on the fiddle (7)
Slogans aren't solutions.
modified 31-Mar-17 9:03am.
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Display ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Nope.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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violins? 
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Not that kind of fiddle.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Getting warmer!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Bravado ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Nope.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Well, it's been four hours now, so you are back up tomorrow.
What's the answer anyway?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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The answer is CONCERT
A banker is a CERT
A fiddle is a CON
A concert is a show.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Argghhh! I even thought of a banker as being a racing certainty  . Oh well...
Good clue though.
Andy B
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Good clue - well done
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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The Glitch Mob - Mind Of A Beast[^]
I've known The Glitch Mob for a while, but a few weeks back someone posted them in the SOTW topic.
Now, weeks later, this song is my SOTW 
For the past week I've started my day with their newest album Love Death Immortality.
Good start of the day 
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What the F? Can't people hold back their April fools jokes till April 1st anymore? Is it really SO important to be the first?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Don't know what time it is there but it is late Friday where I am and I guess they don't want to release it on the weekend.
Lighten up and take if for what it is, not where it comes from.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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