Cookie Thread Act 4 (Act 5): The Fifth One

General
#21166

possession decrim only

#21167

that doesn’t negate anything I just said

#21168

when people say legal weed they typically mean legality of sale as well

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#21169

basically orange thinks laws should ruin lives, not weed

#21170

really the ideal is that our legal system doesn’t mass incarcerate people in jails that fuck them up

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#21171

I think we are in the best of both worlds, both weeds and laws ruin lives now

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#21172

in which case said laws would not be life-destroying in the same way

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#21173

My own view on it comes from two things.

  1. I have watched people destroy their lives or body using various legal substances for as long as I’ve been alive. I don’t see how it marijuana would be any different. This is just a freedom that the US in particular has allowed, even if I personally hate these substances and they’ve brought me despair in life.

  2. Legalization comes with stronger regulation and education about the substance in time. This is something we have seen with other drugs, and that often leads to less abuse. We already have it everywhere in the country, I’d rather have more education on the pros and cons known by the average person.

#21174

if you know that by buying something you can have it fully legally, that’s a big deterrent to purchasing it gone

#21175

We should fully decriminalize and spend the same amount of money and effort we currently do on enforcement of drug laws and incarceration of drug offenders on addressing the conditions which create users in the first place.

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#21176

weed specifically i think is not as bad as the legal prosecution in the name of preventing usage is. by a large margin.

that’s probably the key point of disagreement

#21177

clicks on cookie thread
marijuana

#21178

image

I love that most people in the anime community I’m in have collectively decided to call this anime “Make Heroine”

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#21179

Both drugs and the justice system can ruin lives, but only one of those is prescribed and enforced by the state.

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#21180

Also, as a historian the criminalization of things you will never be able to get rid of, just leads to worse outcomes.

#21181

I’m almost there

#21182

i don’t like using bmi because it always tells me i’m about to die

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#21183

We’ve moved on - opinions on using weed?

#21184

they might have frappes
and given Starbucks hold in the market alot of places frappes grow closer to starbucks ones

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#21185

at the end of the day I do generally agree with the points regarding education, reform, the ineffectiveness of prohibition in general, etc.

but that doesn’t mean I don’t wish the system was such that things could be illegal and not result in destroying lives as a result with regularity