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If you don't know then on the 23rd of June the UK will be holding a referendum which decides whether the UK leave the Europe or stays in. I would love to hear your views about this whether you're from the UK or not.
It's been said that the UK leaving Europe would destroy the euro zone.
Personally, I believe it's time for us to leave. The initial idea of Europe was to become something like the USA. It was a farfetched idea which I think won't become reality. Also, if we stayed then eventually we would have to get rid of the pound and use Euros instead which just takes away our history and tradition to me. The people moving across to the UK from the rest of Europe would be huge if we stayed in which would increase the stress on NHS and pensions. It could mean we have to abolish NHS and get rid of pensions to handle all of these people. We also simply don't have enough space if people moved here at the rate it's doing right now. Taxes would rise as a result of more people wanting pensions and to use the NHS. It would be terrible for the people in the UK to stay in the EU.

I mean in the morning I heard the government are spending 9.6 million pounds on leaflets convincing people to stay in the EU when the initial budget of that was 6 million. Complete waste of money trying to manipulate people.

And not just medicinal use, but apparently recreational use too.

Thoughts?

Personally I think it's about time. Hopefully they tax it and it'll help them make money. The only problem now is the overbearing Federal Government that'll likely be going after them for a lot of things much as they go after marijuana growers and sellers in California.

I'll never understand people who want smaller government, but still claim it's OK for the Federal Government to be so large in this aspect (or others).

Also, I think this might slowly start a movement to legalize it all over the country. I'd say over the next ten years we see the majority of states legalize it and then the federal government finally having to at least decriminalize it.

But, we'll see. I personally don't care about weed, such things are a waste of money, but I'd like to stop wasting tax money on the people going to jail for just possession. And stop tying up our courts for such things.

So what do you guys think? Good thing? Bad thing? Why?