“I think with the decriminalisation in parts of America and parts of Europe, it’s very much acceptable these days - we’re not going to stop it.'
The criminalisation of cannabis is leading people to harder drugs, a former addict has claimed.
“I worked a lot of night shifts at the time, so I used to find it hard to sleep in the morning so I kind of smoked a joint in the morning,” Mr Hurson toldFor years, Mr Hurson was a daily cannabis user and he feels it caused him a lot of problems.“I enjoyed it at the start but looking back now I see the consequences it did have on me compared to my peers who didn’t go down that path, who didn’t smoke weed.
Marijuana trees seen during a press tour of the Medicinal Cannabis Research Institute in Thailand in 2019. Picture by: SOPA Images/SIPA USA/PA Images “I think in comparison to drink and other things, it isn’t the worst like. It doesn’t lead to hard drugs.
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