Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKI kind of agree with Sadiq Khan here, but this is not anything like full #decriminalisation and I doubt it would reduce #crime levels that much - most stoners don't really do much crime (other than maybe #DUI ), its the hustle culture of low to medium level dealing that leads to bloodshed, and that could only be reduced by having tolerated and regulated distribution networks (you rarely hear of rival vape shop owners stabbing each other!)
Frank@fschaap @cstross about 10 years ago there *was* a violent robbery/stabbing of a vape shop owner in my hometown (Ipswich) and it was all mostly middle aged white British people involved, presumably playing out their 1990s gangster/hard man fantasies in real life. what didn't make sense is that there was enough demand for everybody (although the same applies to cannabis and partydrugs, a lot of the violence that has occured on these dealing networks in recent years is genuinely senseless (in the context that there is no need for it) and is fuelled more by toxic masculinity than by the drugs themselves (which are relatively harmless if used in moderation)