I can definitely understand peoples’ issues with it being consumed, especially in a political context, but how do yall feel about “weed”? I won’t hide my feelings, I am very much pro-weed, it’s not great that I started in my mid-teens but in my area it’s FAR from uncommon. I don’t smoke daily or anything, I’m not addicted to it (people say it’s non-habit forming but any drug can be addictive with enough frequent usage) but I do smoke and dab w/ friends often. That’s not why I believe in legalization tho, my main thing is you shouldn’t make a naturally occurring plant an illegal substance. I’d point to the DEA’s destructive (legal) burning of thousands of naturally occurring marijuana plants found in nature; This seems eco-fascist to me and to deny the uses of hemp as a production material seems dogmatic to me. The USSR used hemp for industrial purposes during the war and it helped in a major way. I’m sure most of us are familiar with the badge given for Hemp growers. If you have any criticisms, I’m more than open to it, but I feel that marijuana won’t be easy to get rid of in future society and would probably be put to use in different more productive ways.
Weed isn't any more harmful than alcohol or tobacco which are legal pretty much everywhere. The harm that comes from policing weed far outweighs any actual benefit from doing so.
It's actually far less harmful cause those things will kill you, and cannabis can't.
Ya, I see alcohol as so much more harmful than weed, growing up with an alcoholic parent.
edit: Also the US government historically and still does use alcohol to wreck Indian communities.
Exactly! There’s a reason the movie “Leaving Las Vegas” didn’t feature Nicolas Cage smoking copious amounts of weed, it’s because that would just make you passout
unless operating heavy machinery/driving while intoxicated obviously, and some respiratory if smoking combusted matter, but yea otherwise wont really kill you.
Yeah by itself, you can't overdose on cannabis. There are other, much safer methods of consumption than combustion. I actually have a dry herb vaporizer myself.
That first point could be a point to criminalize alcohol and tobacco and marijuana rather than legalize marijuana
I don't see much value in doing that to be honest, and I don't think it would be possible to accomplish that to any meaningful effect in western culture.
Long term we should work against the consumptions of it but yeah, it wouldn’t work well by immediately banning it. I’m just saying those two existing wouldn’t inherently justify marijuana if someone is against those
I think it's more of an argument that society generally functions fine with those two being legal, and since weed is arguably less dangerous there's no rational reason to ban it.
The idea that we shouldn't allow a substance to temporarily alter our state of mind with the possibility of permanently changing how we think about things really feels like internalized bourgeois ideology. Psychedelics do a pretty good job of lifting the veil of liberalism in my own experience.
indeed