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  Carefully chosen angles Graham, you’re hiding it well.

It's multiculturalism that could well be the downfall and undoing of any previously good work.

I’m all for multiculturalism.  Can’t see anything wrong with it. 

And the "them and us" gap is becoming much wider. We have UK teachers trying to teach kids from all over the world about how "we" think life should be lived but then these same kids go back home and they're immediately back in their home land, and it all goes out the window. Some of these kids, and adults, have seen acts of atrocity that we wouldn't even see in horror films, that have almost become the norm for them, and i've no doubt they're still etched quite clearly in their minds. Problem is, to some of them, mad violence, homophobia, etc, was just a part of everyday life, they know no different yet we have these kids integrating with British kids so as you can guess trying to get such a class full of kids to all behave the same and understand decent values is indeed like "pissing in the wind".

Stop reading the Daily Mail Darrsi, it’s all paranoid bigoted bull shite. 

Government are trying to outprice cigarettes with added horrifying ad campaign to try and make you quit, and i think it is slowly but surely making an impact on a lot of people.

Unfortunately, it’s become something of a tax on the poor.  It’s also resulted in a massive growth in the black market – ie organised crime.  I don’t think tobacco should be cheap as chips, but the current prices are ludicrous.  It also smacks of middle class nannyism, the great and good enforcing their preferences on all.  It ignores the fact that the most damaging drug in the UK is alcohol.

In my opinion the only people who would benefit from legalizing certain drugs would be the "stay at home" type.

I fail to see how you come to that conclusion.

For the record, most people know the effects of alcohol, and generally for example it will be out of your system after a booze up a definite 2 days later.

Alcohol is a hard drug – period.  You can get seriously off yer face on it and/or potentially kill yourself.  Not to mention it’s association with aggressive behaviour.  It’s a serious hard drug.

Unfortunately cannabis won’t be out of your system, even more so if you’re a regular user, so if you get pulled over and swabbed a week later you could still get nicked and banned due to the near zero tolerance drug driving laws, even though you will feel absolutely fine to drive and not feel under the influence at all.

When tested for alcohol, people are tested to determine whether they are under the influence of the drug, ie how much alcohol is in their blood.


Cannabis is an illegal substance.  When tested for cannabis, you are tested to see if you have any of the broken down by products of an illegal drug in your system.  You are not tested to determine if you are under the influence of the drug.


At my place of work there is a rigorous random drug testing programme.  As far as I can figure out - what they have managed to prove is that people can use recreational drugs and function as model employees.  It’s also encouraged the use of hard drugs such as cocaine which are in and out of your system quick.