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Listed below are comments made by bigsammyb between Monday, 2nd November 2009 and Friday, 4th December 2009 (27 Minutes Ago) .

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In the eyes of the law 11:45am on 04 Dec 2009 You say you could not take pictures like in the 'last ressort' today, why do you say that?

It is not a criminal offence to photgraph anyone in this country it is only a offence to record their voice without consent.

So it is perfectly legal to take photos on the beach, the public may not like it but you are not breaking the law.

And section 44 is a very poorly written peice of legislation, if a policeman told me to stop taking pictures i would refuse, he can arrest me if he wants but the case would never get to court.
Prime Minister's Questions: Schools 8:57pm on 25 Nov 2009 "94. At 8:18pm on 25 Nov 2009, Zydeco wrote:

Is your very good education system the one which manages to produce 33% of kids per annum who leave school unable to read or write?"

Was it in the daily mail or the sun that you read that statistic?
Prime Minister's Questions: Schools 7:53pm on 25 Nov 2009 #63

Being able to buy a nice car, house etc are all rewards we can obtain for ourselves through hard work and is a good thing. However what exactly has your child done to deserve to have an unfair advantage over a child from a more humble background?

Once a child attains a private school it joins a very elite club, hence why the majority of politicians and business leaders have been privately educated.

This creates an oligrachy and undermines the concept of a free democrasy.

Also, might i add, we have a very good education system in this country and anybody from any background can excel within it and many do every year.
Prime Minister's Questions: Schools 6:46pm on 25 Nov 2009 Surely there is a wider issue here? Why do we allow any kind of independant schools in this country?

Private education perpetuates the oligarchy that we live under, private religeous education also fosters division within communities and in my opinion is in itself a form of child abuse.

We do not talk about conservative children or labour children do we? No becuase we accept they are too young to have formed a opinion on such a subject. Yet when it comes to the most fundamental philosophical question a child might ever ponder we allow them to be brain washed from birth.

Sure that is a difficult issue to deal with but banning any kind of religeon in any UK school would be a big start.

At the very least we shouldn't be funding these places with tax payers money.
A return to reason? 10:58am on 14 Nov 2009 An issue like this should not be seen as somthing that is political. If legalising cannabis is unpopular then so be it, it just means people are poorly educated on the subject.

If we always followed public opinion homosexuality would still be illegal, sexism in the workplace would be allowed and flagerant racism would be an every day occurance.

A lot of this boils down to the newspapers, as such i think we should introduce impartiality laws on newspapers so they have to adhere to the same standards of impartiality as a television news broadcaster.

If papers don't like the new system they can cary on as they are but must not be allowed to refer to themselves as newspapers, because they are not. They should only be allowed to print on sheet paper if they are classified as one.

Rags like the daily mail, the sun and the daily express should be classified under the law as magasines NOT newspapers then people would be able to tell the difference between actual news and uninformed hear say.
Why was David Nutt sacked? 2:08pm on 06 Nov 2009 "97. At 1:26pm on 04 Nov 2009, LippyLippo wrote:

It is still wrong. We still don’t want people to do it. Drugs cause massive social problems that can’t be described solely in terms of their chemical toxicity and ‘directly attributable’ death rate. What about someone who is kicked to death by a group of kids high on weed or wanting money for their next fix? What about a hit and run by an addled driver?"

There next 'fix'? Are you serious? Okay pop quiz, you go and find me a criminal case ever in history where a group of desperate youths kicked someone to death because they needed a 'fix' of cannabis.

In the meantime i will gather so much data of people kicking each other to death on alcohol it would take you two lifetimes to trawl through it.

Honestly mate your ignorance is staggering.
More could quit, drugs panel tells Johnson 5:58pm on 03 Nov 2009 What i really don't understand is why the government ignore the statisics.

When they made cannabis class C cananbis use dropped significantly. When they changed it back to B use increased significantly.

In every single country in europe that has decriminalised cannabis and other drugs the results have been staggering, to the point where the dutch have to close down prisons becuase they don't have enough in mates to fill them!

Why doesn't the government publish a report than go on TV and explain scientifically why they have kept cannabis at class B? Why don't they provide there own findings as to why they have done this? All i have heard so far is anecdotal evidence based on presumption and ignorance.

So come on Alan Johnson, stand on national TV and explain to the people of this country why you think you know better than a council made up of scientists, the police and health experts?
More could quit, drugs panel tells Johnson 8:47pm on 02 Nov 2009 "37. At 6:45pm on 02 Nov 2009, Colonicus42 wrote:

My point still stands though, smoking cannabis with tobacco has the same negative effects as smoking tobacco and it can cause a tobacco addiction. I've seen it in cannabis smoking friends, most smoke cigarettes too, at least 2 think it started from smoking weed. The papers abstract did also mention it was correcting for tobacco use in the cannabis users."

I agree with you, but you miss the point entirely. You see culturally in the united states the traditional 'joint' would be made from pure marijuana and would not not have a 'roach' (filter made from card), this is because they typically smoked cannabis sativa like acupoloco gold smuggled from mexico (much stronger than 'skunk' by the way and this was in the 70's) and it came in a herbal form.

In the UK and rest of the EU our cananbis supply has tradionally come from morrocco and we have primarily smoked hashish made from cannabis indica plants, they make hashish because the flowers themselves are less potent. This would be smuuggled in to gibralter in to spain and across the EU. If you smoke hashish then you tradtionally smoke in a joint with tobbacco and a roach as you say.

But the point is these practises are dictated by avilablility and lack of education. The best way to smoke weed or hashish is with a vapourizer this involves heating the subtance until it steams or vapourizes rather than burns, this not only gives the user a bigger hit for the amount used but it also negates any carionegenic substances entering the lungs.

In Amsterdam they have the 'cannabis college' which is a charity helped by the government that educates tourists about the use of marijuana and that is only possible because it is tolerated.
More could quit, drugs panel tells Johnson 8:33pm on 02 Nov 2009 "Give in to me or I will resign?

If you are in a job, try that one out with your boss tomorrow. Everyone I can think of who ever said that to their boss was lucky if they got the reply "we will be sorry to see you go."

Bottom line: they are advisers. Give the advice. It might be accepted, it might not. If you can't live with that then move on."

I don't think you quite understand the situation. These people are UNPAID and work in a voluntary capacity and the board is made up of people from the scientific feild as well as the police and other bodies.

If these people quit they cannot be replaced with anything other than yes men who will have a remit for providing evidence to back up government policies, if they find somthing that contradicts government policy they will be expected to keep that information out of the public domain.

Are we living in communist china here or what?
More could quit, drugs panel tells Johnson 6:47pm on 02 Nov 2009 Mark thankyou for continuing to follow this issue in your blog, this is an issue than means a lot to me and many others personally and left us all seething.

This had a far wider implication than i think a lot of people realise. This isn't just about drugs this is about far reaching issues.

This sets a precedant politcally and even legally to an extent. Afterall is the BBC not a independant government body? Who's to say the government won't start sacking BBC journalists if they go against the government line?

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