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I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life

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Re: I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life

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Post by leakybit »

hubb wrote: post #21
gragas wrote: post #13

I'm for the legalization of marijuana, but I really hate the arguments these articles present in favor of it; I'm sure your raging 9-year-old kid would chill out on a strong dose of heroin, too. We should not falsely elevate marijuana as some wonder drug. Surely, there's a better argument that can be presented for legalization?

this is a false equivalency for two reasons: marijuana is not physically addictive, and THC doesn't have near the same capability to incapacitate people that heroin does.

Which is why the only drug I do is meth, since it's not physically addictive and actually makes me function better.

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Post by pg314 »

thesmallestcat wrote: post #18
gragas wrote: post #13

I'm for the legalization of marijuana, but I really hate the arguments these articles present in favor of it; I'm sure your raging 9-year-old kid would chill out on a strong dose of heroin, too. We should not falsely elevate marijuana as some wonder drug. Surely, there's a better argument that can be presented for legalization?

This article is propaganda. It doesn't contain any interesting data, just a rehash of the policy landscape and a single, heart string-tugging anecdote.

I know it is fashionable to label articles propaganda, but the term gets thrown around lightly.

propaganda: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

In what way is the article biased or misleading? It is clearly labeled 'Opinion'.

Not every article in a newspaper needs to meet the standards for an article in a peer-reviewed journal. There is a place for human-interest stories too.

Re: I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life

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Post by thesmallestcat »

wavefunction wrote: post #27
thesmallestcat wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This article is propaganda. It doesn't contain any interesting data, just a rehash of the policy landscape and a single, heart string-tugging anecdote.

The data that backs this story up has been replicated and published for a long time. This is one family's experience, a transformative one for every member of the family. It's written not to provide scientific evidence but to communicate to those people who may still oppose marijuana liberalization and who don't even care about the data, which is clear cut and unmistakeable at this point. Calling this propaganda is t…

Yet none of that data is presented in the article. That it exists doesn't improve the journalism here.

> Calling this propaganda is the height of ridiculousness.

You must have a poor imagination. There are cookies for that though.

Re: I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life

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Post by bojl »

thesmallestcat wrote: post #18
gragas wrote: post #13

I'm for the legalization of marijuana, but I really hate the arguments these articles present in favor of it; I'm sure your raging 9-year-old kid would chill out on a strong dose of heroin, too. We should not falsely elevate marijuana as some wonder drug. Surely, there's a better argument that can be presented for legalization?

This article is propaganda. It doesn't contain any interesting data, just a rehash of the policy landscape and a single, heart string-tugging anecdote.

Propaganda is kind of a strong word.

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Post by shiven »

roystonvassey wrote: post #22

In Singapore and a few other neighbouring SEA countries, there's a death penalty for the possession of cannabis. Possession. Death. Unbelievable.

Singapore is fucked up in so many ways, it's not even funny.

Yeah, yeah, fanboys, I know how cool it is in so many ways, but it is a fucking oligarchy at the end of any day.

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Post by geofft »

thesmallestcat wrote: post #18
gragas wrote: post #13

I'm for the legalization of marijuana, but I really hate the arguments these articles present in favor of it; I'm sure your raging 9-year-old kid would chill out on a strong dose of heroin, too. We should not falsely elevate marijuana as some wonder drug. Surely, there's a better argument that can be presented for legalization?

This article is propaganda. It doesn't contain any interesting data, just a rehash of the policy landscape and a single, heart string-tugging anecdote.

You might fight wars with data, but you win or lose them with propaganda. If the defenders wish to win the war on drugs, they must be willing to use at least as much propaganda as the attackers have used.

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Post by SFJulie »

ensiferum wrote: post #8

The crimininalization of marijuana and classification as illicit substance is such a tremendous stupidity.

Imagine I live in a country where discussing the law is illegal and can send you to jail for years and worth 70000€ of fine. You can criticize any laws but these one... like google did in order to avoid taxes.

Even if the constitution grant the right to discuss and modify the law... and the country claims being the country of the Human Rights.

Vive la France. The country where some animals are more equal than others.

Re: I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life

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Post by hasenj »

patrickaljord wrote: post #3

The war on drugs is probably one of the biggest crime against humanity since WW2 with millions of deaths, millions in prisons, and trillions of dollars and human resources wasted, mostly affecting the poor and minorities everywhere. This needs to stop. Sadly, it looks like it will go on for a few more decades.

Really? I have a very deep suspicion that drugs destroy society by making a majority of people lethargic and unmotivated to do anything in real life.

A case could be made for exceptions here and there (like the child in this article) but I don't think it works so well in society.

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Post by dfraser992 »

patrickaljord wrote: post #3

The war on drugs is probably one of the biggest crime against humanity since WW2 with millions of deaths, millions in prisons, and trillions of dollars and human resources wasted, mostly affecting the poor and minorities everywhere. This needs to stop. Sadly, it looks like it will go on for a few more decades.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drug-Warriors-Their-Prey-Police/dp/...

This is a good book that shows some of the motivation for a War on Drugs is not in the name of health, safety, security... but the exact opposite. The War on Drugs sorta failed in these aims, so now "terrorists" are the new excuse for a 'soft' police state.

Re: I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life

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Post by mistermann »

Vosporos wrote: post #11
guard-of-terra wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's funniest, USA created War on Drugs to tackle their internal purposes, but the rest of the world adopted it anyway (including the wrong side of Iron Curtain)

Yeah, so they could target communists, black panthers and pacifists :/

Afaik, countries are often required to (sometimes "unofficially") comply with a variety of US "customs" before various deals (trade, etc) will be signed.

I completely believe that to control the world, you must control people's minds, and to control people's minds, you must control drugs.

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