Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

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c0tt0nt0p

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Cue said:
Personally I’d prefer the police spend their time doing something more useful than try to bust people for smoking a substance that’s slowly being legalised across the globe.

Where it is legal it’s actually less of a problem in public areas, because there’s cafes and such you can smoke in and they take their ventilation very carefully so that it’s all filtered out. It’s also easier to get oils, etc to make edibles which don’t require smoking at all so don’t have any of the smell issues.

IIRC UK weed has gotten worse over time because it’s criminalised, in countries where it’s legalised the stuff is far more sensible in potency as the folk running the stores put more care into the quality… seeing as, y’know, it’s a legitimate business. As a result, the UK has a problem with the smell of weed.
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kyoto49

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I have no opinion on drugs and their legalisation but seeing parents pushing buggies with young children in while getting high doesn't sit well with me. Happens alot up my end of town. Young children should not be exposed to any sort of substance and parents should be completely sober when looking after them imo. I feel the same about alcohol and parents who walk along with young children with their heads in a phone totally ignoring the poor children shouldn't bloody have kids if their social media is more important. 🙁
 
Cue

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kyoto49 said:
I have no opinion on drugs and their legalisation but seeing parents pushing buggies with young children in while getting high doesn't sit well with me. Happens alot up my end of town. Young children should not be exposed to any sort of substance and parents should be completely sober when looking after them imo. I feel the same about alcohol and parents who walk along with young children with their heads in a phone totally ignoring the poor children shouldn't bloody have kids if their social media is more important. 🙁
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No, agreed. The same would go for a parent walking along smoking a cigarette IMO, it’s just irresponsible.
 
tek-monkey

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kyoto49 said:
I have no opinion on drugs and their legalisation but seeing parents pushing buggies with young children in while getting high doesn't sit well with me. Happens alot up my end of town. Young children should not be exposed to any sort of substance and parents should be completely sober when looking after them imo. I feel the same about alcohol and parents who walk along with young children with their heads in a phone totally ignoring the poor children shouldn't bloody have kids if their social media is more important. 🙁
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I used to drink every day, since having Eric I think I've been the pub 4 times! Possibly with @Thehooperman on every occasion!
 
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kyoto49 said:
I have no opinion on drugs and their legalisation but seeing parents pushing buggies with young children in while getting high doesn't sit well with me. Happens alot up my end of town. Young children should not be exposed to any sort of substance and parents should be completely sober when looking after them imo. I feel the same about alcohol and parents who walk along with young children with their heads in a phone totally ignoring the poor children shouldn't bloody have kids if their social media is more important. 🙁
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There was a case in the press of some mother who was high on something, coke or heroin and the TV fell on the baby killing it. Can someone in favour of legalisation tell me how more availability of drugs fixes incidents like this? Sure, you can use the "we'll tax it and there will be more support available" line, but it's not true is it? has that worked for the gambling industry? nope.
 
tek-monkey

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gilesjuk said:
There was a case in the press of some mother who was high on something, coke or heroin and the TV fell on the baby killing it. Can someone in favour of legalisation tell me how more availability of drugs fixes incidents like this? Sure, you can use the "we'll tax it and there will be more support available" line, but it's not true is it? has that worked for the gambling industry? nope.
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By that reasoning we should ban alcohol too?
 
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tek-monkey said:
By that reasoning we should ban alcohol too?
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There's a big difference there. If people drink a lot and are drunk around their kids it gets noticed and people report them or get them some help. It's called being an alcoholic and it's seen as a problem. Most people don't wake up in the morning and start drinking either do they? yet there's people smoking weed morning, noon and night.

Being an alcoholic is a lot more noticeable and frowned upon.
 
Withnail

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gilesjuk said:
There was a case in the press of some mother who was high on something, coke or heroin and the TV fell on the baby killing it. Can someone in favour of legalisation tell me how more availability of drugs fixes incidents like this?
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Luckily, the fact that drugs are illegal meant that this mother-who-was-high-on-something, probably Cake, wasn't able to access drugs of any kind in the first place, what with them being illegal, and the fictitious TV didn't fall on the fictitious baby after all.

Do you ever tire of being wrong?
 
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Withnail said:
Luckily, the fact that drugs are illegal meant that this mother-who-was-high-on-something, probably Cake, wasn't able to access drugs of any kind in the first place, what with them being illegal, and the fictitious TV didn't fall on the fictitious baby after all.

Do you ever tire of being wrong?
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No one talks about the dangers of cake.
 
tek-monkey

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gilesjuk said:
There's a big difference there. If people drink a lot and are drunk around their kids it gets noticed and people report them or get them some help. It's called being an alcoholic and it's seen as a problem. Most people don't wake up in the morning and start drinking either do they? yet there's people smoking weed morning, noon and night.

Being an alcoholic is a lot more noticeable and frowned upon.
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So people can spot alcoholics but not drug addicts? If the symptoms of alcohol are so noticeable why are drugs worse?

I've known many fully functioning alcoholics and drug addicts in my time, hell I used to turn up for work without ever making it home and nobody noticed. I once confessed to being drunk to a coworker and she was shocked, started feeding me coffee 🤣

You can only tell those that can't mask well.
 
proactive

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Cue said:
Personally I’d prefer the police spend their time doing something more useful than try to bust people for smoking a substance that’s slowly being legalised across the globe.
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Personally, I'd prefer it if the police did their job on this issue. Any issue, in fact.
 
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Chillybean

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proactive said:
Personally, I'd prefer it if the police did their job on this issue. Any issue, in fact.
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I'd agree, thought I do think the police are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't. I don't how any one can tell the difference between a user and seller these days until stopped by the police.
 
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