Liverpool FC Forum

dawson99 wrote:

Sabre wrote:What do you think about Marihuana BTW?

I've been here 3 years and any time it's mentioned is often to insult or something IN my country it's quite allowed and chances are the police won't tell you anything if you're smoking a marihuana fag in the beach at night. But I think for what I have read that doesn't apply to England. Do the lads and overall young people smoke that kind of drugs? Do you think it should be legal, like alcohol? after all, it's a drug like alcohol, with some different effects (for instance it doesn't provoke violence).

disgraceful filthy habit





cant speak for everyone but most all people who smoke would have the occasional joint... no harm, dunno what the offcial stance is now legally as its always changing but pretty shure its just a slap on the wrists if caught with not much

So what's worse, Dawson, puffing on a spliff or downloading a movie from the internet?  Both are illegal after all, right?   

dawson99 wrote:i personally do neither bob

downloading from the internet to me is on apar from buying fake tickets to a footy game or using touts. just think tis wrong. Cannabis is a delicate issue. Should it be leaglised? Well then the governmanet could make a mint on the tax front.

as for me, i say drugs are bad m'kay, well, not that bad, they arent as good as they used to be anyways

And nicotine's not a drug?  (Just testing your moral boundaries here, Daws )

dawson99 wrote:my moral boundaries really come down to theft, i think its wrong to say 'well they wont miss it'.

Okay, so if we can convince you that second-hand smoke "steals" the health of those around you, will you concede the debate?   

dawson99 wrote:no, i have my god given right to smoke!!!

plus, it makes me look cool

all ive said is i agree with most of it, but in cities where pubs are OWNED, it should be up to the owner whther or not his premises allow smoking. let the poeple decide.

dawson99 wrote:whatever u want?

cool beans.

Personally, I can see both sides of the issue when it comes to smoking in pubs.  Selfishly, I prefer it when people are asked to smoke outside but I do recognize the hardship of doing that in Canada in the dead of winter.    On the flip side, I concede that, often times, the smokers make up the lion's share of the pub's business and perhaps should be catered to more than us non-smokers, who only pop round for an occasional drink anyway.

What I'm really saying is that I'm not that bothered either way and am only posting on the subject because I'm bored at work and there's feck all else to talk about on here.  Having said that...lunch time!

Sabre wrote:

Cars are a tool that many people require in order to do their jobs.

Use may be a correct word. Require, I don't think so. People could go to work in bus or metro, but they choose to add polution to the atmosphere for their comfort. Some people could meet and join to go to work in the same car, but they preffer to drive one car each.

Alcohol doesn't kill? it's statistically proved the amount of accidents caused by alcohol, stablish a relationship between certain murders and alcohol, and list a number of health troubles that eventually lead to death because alcohol.

But there's not a Spanish Inquisition against drinkers, where as, in certain politically correct enterprises one of the question they make you when you apply for a job is whether you're a smoker. And this politically correct brigade has started to act on my country. In real life, I'm also quite polite, but I had some encounters with politically correct brigades. I respect the law concerning tobacco thoroughly, yet, I've been told not to smoke in places that I was allowed to and I had to deal with some discussions due to tobacco. All that despite I'm a guy that even if it's allowed I ask first wheter if anybody mind if I smoked. Some discussions came after that kind of offers... they just had to say "no" or "yes" to my polite permission request, and I wouldn't have lit a cig, but they chose to say a rant, and of course I answer.

My point. Tobacco is bad. So is alcohol. So is everything, like too much polution produced by the cars. So let's have common sense, analyse all the dangers, make laws according to the analisys of the dangers, and that's it. But let's not treat smokers as criminals. Not that I've seen such a thing in this thread eh? I'm talking about some P.C brigaders and some advertising in the TV, and some abusive questions in job employment.

Igor Zidane wrote:Nothing wrong with public transport ace, in liverpool anyway , it's cheap and pretty reliable .That's got nothing to do with smoking i know ,but i still had to pull you up there ace.

destro wrote:As far as the difference between Cannabis and Cigs people will argue that it is less harmless than cigs but it is in fact just as much  of a health risk as it has a higher tar content than a cig, so smoking cannabis brings the same health problems like bronchitis, emphysema and lung cancer etc,etc