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No, I look at the actual evidence that marijuana causes violence in things like domestic abuse (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7525024/) as well as being tied to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7084484), both of which cause violent actions. I think that we should support users in trying to get off it and focus on education rather than criminalization but it is dangerous none-the-less.
correlation doesn't equal causation. weed is very popular and used hundreds of millions of times every day, of course it will be co-existing with all the realities of the world. It doesn't mean that it causes them.
It causes slower reaction times. People still attempt to drive/ride a bike even with alcohol so they will likely do so with marijuana. There is substantial evidence tying its usage to violence and mental illness. That is reason enough to oppose it
No it isn't and you're a fascist boomer who is pro child-enslavement. That is the logical endpoint of making weed illegal, we already saw it.
Or....they could just not sell things that kill people. Sorry, I didn't realize that every AES state is "pro child-enslavement".
By your logic you would also be stripping people of a bunch of culturally significant substances used in ceremonies etc. Just take the L here you're extremely wrong and this is just entirely a bad faith argument at this point.
First off, exceptions could be made for it in such cases and secondly, protecting people’s lives are more important
There are also mountains of evidence that cannabis has medicinal uses. Guess what also impairs you: Pain killers and any other number of medicines. You just are being reductive and contrarian and crusading against cannabis like a boomer on 4/20 of all days. I was half convinced this was a bit but I think you are actually this stupid.
This post isn’t talking about medicinal uses. We should aim for medicinal drugs to be acquired through doctors with prescriptions, not bought from a gang at a street corner like marijuana. But no, I guess personal attacks are more fun than thinking
What year do you think it is? Lmao you are so sheltered and it shows
Nah dude I was totally a one man street gang when I was selling sacks to my coworkers that I got by working on a farm
hey kid want some druuuuugs
You have to have seen this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfelvI_ikf4
So it should be decriminalized. Glad you finally get it.
Also BTW "Marijuana" was popularized in the west to make it sound like a brown person thing.
You need serious reeducaation.
That’s the opposite of what I’m saying. Marijuana needs to be eliminated. Executing every offender is socially preferable to legalizing it
So you also advocate making alchool illegal? (overwhelming evidence of alcohol contributing to violence, domestic of otherwise) Note how I wrote "contribute" and not cause.
Human behavioural problems are complicated as well as their causes. Blaming them solely on substances is dishonest and steers us away from the real causes.
We aren’t discussing alcohol. I obviously oppose it and also support criminalizing it with fierce aggression but that’s completely irrelevant to this discussion, there are many other things I also support criminalizing