Noone seems to understand, these petitions guarantee nothing more than a discussion, in essence, they mean sweet fuck all. The government has made it's laws for quite a specific reason, they have no intention of changing it because 100,000 people filled in an e-petition. How many thousand people went the step further and actually protested over student fees, the government don't give two rats arses. If anything all it is is a tool for them to stop us actually doing anything about the problem and rather get us thinking we can change things from our couch.
Every shred of advice from experts in the field to respected members of this country to politicians of the highest level have stated what a joke the drug war is, Westminster couldn't give a flying fuck, their incentives far outweigh a bunch of people unhpapy with how things are and as such will find any number of corruptable folk to state the contrary. I'm all for legalisation, but i long ago gave up caring, you know why? Because i happily grow cannabis, they failed.
Your housemate sounds like he needs a right beating.
