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Drug smuggler admits most of his cannabis couriers get caught | BBC News

Drugs gangs are flooding the north of England with cheap cannabis grown overseas and sold to mimic slickly marketed, legal marijuana from the United States, a BBC investigation has learned.

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all this could be avoided, easily.
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I just love how the expert was cut short just to leave in the shocking bit without the proper context to understand the statistics cited. Great bit of info that was, amazing public service.
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Completely pointless keeping it banned, its better for you than alcohol, Just legalise it now and STOP WASTING MY TAX !
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Is it the 80s? This is some hammy scaremongering
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Only solution is to decriminalise, and allow people to grow their own, just don’t commercialise it.
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the report not mentioning our own industrial scale of growing is embarrassing
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Ffs. Legalize it. Test it. Tax it. Regulate it. Eliminate smugglers. Money pours into Treasuries.
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@UlzYT From YouTube ↗ 8 Jul 2026 8
glad you've caught up. Yes, everyone already knows that the "cali" is not actually cali, and has done for years.
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4:10 cannabis amplifies emotions. that's normal. when you mix that with cannabis being illegal ofcourse you are going to think that people are spying you or trying to harm you because guess what that is the reality. police will spy you and harm your life if you get caught. it's not psychosis. it would be psychosis if the things were not real.
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Legalise it. Colorado did and now has so much revenue it doesn’t know what to do with it.
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Do these idiots know medical cannabis has been legal since 2018, and it's helping 100s of THOUSANDS of people with anxiety and MH!!
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Its banned not because of health reasons but for money reasons, tobacco companies are political backers so obviously theyd lose big time financially if it became legal so those they fund and endorse fight any new law/legislation
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'Scromiting' ?? What is this nonsense 😂
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@RPI79 From YouTube ↗ 8 Jul 2026 23
JFC, the BBC still peddling that fear, hey?
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Just legalise it man
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@kazi6343 From YouTube ↗ 8 Jul 2026 11
Only way to win this war is to legalize it. Then tax it and quality control. Same way if alcohol was illegal there would be moonshiners and we would have methanol in beer.
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It's so stupid to call weed a hard drug
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Simple solution: Legalize.
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legalize - Canada's weed is clean and blackmarket has shrunk
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Just legalise it. Everyone’s smoking it anyways lol