Looking for a place to light up (joints) legally in London

[Wonk]

Sunday January 25, 2004

Rolling up a joint in the toilet of St Paul's Cathedral isn't my usual Friday morning habit but it seemed as good a place as any to start testing the confusion over the Government's new cannabis laws.

(snip)

At Tate Modern, I buy a coffee and ask if I can smoke. A waiter points to the balcony. 'You can go out there,' he says.

I produce my mammoth spliff. There is a gasp from the schoolboys in the queue behind me. Can I smoke this? I ask. He barely hesitates: 'Of course,' he says with a sweet, complicit smile. 'It's a nice view out there to relax with.'

(snip)

I try for a second opinion and target a doctor and nurse. Perhaps less hardened to the unpredictable demands of the public, the nurse doubles up in hilarity when I produce the joint.

'I don't see a problem: the law has changed, hasn't it?' says the doctor. 'You should probably be discreet though; choose somewhere quiet.' As I move away, the nurse turns to the doctor: 'It was polite of her to ask though, wasn't it?'

more...
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1130755,00.html

Whoa....

[davidinalameda]

1. it 's in the same class now as steroids?

Cannabis will be downgraded on Thursday from a class B to class C drug, a category which covers the least harmful of the illegal drugs including GHB, anabolic steroids and tranquillisers such as Valium.

this grouping really strikes me as odd

they may be the least harmful but abuse is much more harmful than that of pot

never heard of anyone od'ing on pot as on valium or doing permanent damage to their entire bodies as through the use of steroids