{"id":42401,"date":"2018-10-30T16:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=42401"},"modified":"2018-10-30T16:05:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:05:36","slug":"cardiff-on-recreational-cannabis-voxpop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/uncategorized\/cardiff-on-recreational-cannabis-voxpop","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff on recreational cannabis: Voxpop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada legalised <\/span><\/a>both the possession of cannabis and the use of the drug for recreational purposes last week. They were the second country in the world to do so, after Uruguay.<\/span><\/p>\n

An arguably controversial move, Alt.Cardiff set out to establish what the people in the city thought of this.<\/span><\/p>\n

We asked: \u201cCanada have just become the second country to legalise recreational cannabis. What do you think of this, and do you think the UK should follow suit?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Derek Williams, 66, retired, Cardiff<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m totally against it, because it leads from one thing to another. Having run a bar in Cardiff, we used to have problems with staff taking drugs and the police wouldn\u2019t do anything about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Danielle Davis, 22, hospitality, England<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I think it should be introduced in the UK. I think it has the ability to relax people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ellen Jones, 20, hospitality, Cardiff<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI think cannabis should be legalised for medical use, I know in some countries, even though they have legalised it, there\u2019s still a lot of restrictions as to who can possess it and stuff. I think, for recreational use, people should be entitled to a sensible amount.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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George Smith, 24, unemployed, England <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I think it is a good thing, and I think they should introduce it here as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mike Club, 64, retired, Cardiff<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I definitely think it\u2019s a bad thing. Medicinal, I can cope with, but recreational, no.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thomas Lapton, 30, promotion supervisor, England <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cLegal recreational use of cannabis has serious cultural consequences. I think it\u2019s worth looking at what\u2019s happened in the Netherlands, and what\u2019s happened in Canada, and making a decision based on that. Do we want the same level of drug tourism as Amsterdam or Canada, do we have more of a national identity than just being a drug tourist destination?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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