TALKING POINT: Do you think that cannabis should be legalised?

Speaking in the House of Commons, he told legalising cannabis for medicinal purposes would reduce the drug’s side effects.

There has already been a significant response from our readers on both the South Wales Argus website and Facebook page.

Here is what they had to say:

For a change I believe he is right, cannabis should be available for controlled medicinal purposes and more research done into it’s use against cancer.

Alexander Great

Its criminal it’s not legalised. It’s a life saver when it comes to epilepsy.

How prescription drugs which don’t work fully and have horrendous side effects can be used over something as effective as CBD or THC which has a very high percentage of stopping seizures altogether and doesn’t have the life debilitating side effects is truly corrupt.

Really livid

There are plenty of excellent drugs available free on prescription to effectively treat chronic pain.

Why is Mr Flynn still so hell bent on opening up a can of worms which will be associated with legalising cannabis?

He is very wrong to even try to do this.

siameselady

They should legalise all drugs. People will always find a way to get them anyway. If they were all legal then they impurities could be monitored so they wouldn’t be cut with drain cleaner etc.

Plus the government would get vital tax money which would undoubtedly be put to better use than lining some drug pushers pocket.

Jim Kirk

Can’t help but think there might be some more important issues locally he could be raising rather than just a publicity stunt???

cjwales1

I agree it has many benefits that I’ve seen first hand for myself in many situations its a massive pain relief it also helps with the nervous system and spasms best thing they could do is follow suit with America on this.

Ceri Batty

This is where I’m confused, if it’s for medical purposes, can’t it be prescribed? I mean, what are we saying when we are asking for it to be made legal? Sold next to the paracetamol on the shelf? Or next to the apples and plums in Sainsbury’s?

Michael Stuart

Offering alternative medicines such as cannabis would eat into the profits of the mammoth pharmaceutical companies.

With so many pensions, investments etc having stakes in these companies, politicians and like are no doubt concerned about the knock on effect of that. Whilst I would agree to cannabis potentially being legalised for medical purposes, I think its a very small chance it will happen.

That’s that

I’m against, It is defeatist and the case for ‘medicinal purposes’ gets zeroed because ‘clean’ cannabis and research into clinical value gets ignored because of the street distribution where no-one has any idea what is in it.

If clinical research shows that harmful (But pain killing content), needs to be removed first, then all we do is legalise crap and the MS sufferers campaigning for legalisation still won’t use it.

Alarmingly what we then saw were demands to legalise Heroin and all sorts.

This is what you get when calls for legalisation because ‘we cannot control it anyway’ gets street cred.

We just have to keep attacking drug pushers because once something gets legalised it loses value to them, so they invent harder drugs.

We want death sentences for distributors, and long term jail sentences for pushers.

Or face a nation of its head half the time.

mervynjames224

Cannabis should be made legal for medical purposes it is curing cancer see Darren Steven Miller, helping Parkinson patients talk and control tremors see ride with Larry.

gingertom

Yes totally. As someone living with chronic pain and tried all meds that don’t work, life is very debilitating.

Claire Leeson

I’m still yet to find a valid reason for it to have been banned in the first place, because of its ban, we now have “so called legal highs” which are far more dangerous than the cannabis it was designed to mimic!

David Hoare

The argument for this will be dragged on for years and opportunities and lives lost in the meantime.

Action for change is always at a snail’s pace with our current political rabble.... we should be leading an example rather than twiddling thumbs.

Yes we should legalise it. Yes it should be produced and sold by people who strive for quality and it should be taxed.

Educating people of the abuse of this medicine should also be top of the agenda.

No more scare tactics. Get it in the labs and find out exactly what we can achieve with this product.

Rocky Worsfold