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There is no way this would be legal. No chance.
not yet!
I don't think in the future either because plants need to be secured.
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More people should try weed who haven't. Melts that stick up the butt, as if were.
But would Germans still be Germans if that happened? That’s my whole problem with this legislation!
You think legal weed is going to make Germans not German anymore? How on earth could you possibly come to that conclusion
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Inhaling fumes from burning plant matter can't be good for your lungs though? How can it not increase the chance of cancer (even if to a lesser degree) if you smoked as many joints as some people smoke cigarettes per day (of course you'd have other problems if you tried that)?
But people won't smoke a pack of joints a day. Only, like, one per week or so.
Sorry but that is absolutely not true.
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"The park is vibrant and full of kids and families over the day.. dealers don't even annoy you usually if you signal strong non-interest or don't fall into typical buyer group." Yeah, that's where I want to take my kids, where the "drug dealers don't annoy us if we're not interested"... you must have very high annoyance thresholds.
They're literally no different than hot dog sellers tbh, kids probably don't even notice them. This isn't skidrow with dozens of people injecting drugs 24/7 in the middle of the streets lol
Hot dog sellers don't practically block your way on the footpaths, and silently glare as you walk buy.
The dealers are plainly obnoxious - and vastly more numerous than any funk food vendors. I don't see how one can begin to make a comparison.
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Why do you think marijuana legalization will substantially change anything in your park then?
My impression is that weed is their main source of revenue. So legalizing it would make dealing A LOT less profitable. Also, the group of potential weed buyers is pretty large and diverse, meaning they need to approach pretty much everyone. The group of potential buyers for harder party drugs is more easy to identify, hence you can stop asking everyone.
AIUI weed is generally the least consequential when busted for dealing, so it's the most visible entrypoint dealers openly broadcast on the street.
Weed is like the cover charge at the door. Cocaine, meth, fent, mdma, lsd, shrooms, etc. are the drinks served at the bar.
If this is anywhere near a correct understanding, legalizing weed would cause little/no reduction in the activity. It would lessen the potential consequences for dealing weed even further, while "drinks at the bar" continue being served.
We'd need to legalize and regulate all drugs, and do so without taxing it so much the black market continues to thrive via lower prices.
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#76Finally! I have a guide on how to buy weed in Berlin. A big chunk of it warns readers about how sketchy and dangerous it is if you don’t have a trusted contact. Weed is frequently contaminated with really nasty chemicals. A Canadian or American reader might not appreciate how different the environment is from their pre-legalisation days. The weed you buy is genuinely dangerous.
You have dozen of telegram channels with thousands of sales, rating systems, home delivery, &c. Buying from the streets is a tourist thing
Buying from Telegram is only slightly less dangerous.
Call me when you can buy it from a store that sources it from vetted growers.
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#77Sad. We need to move away from smoking, not encourage this cancer-causing good-for-nothing behavior. Not to mention it causes streets to smell like a skunk.
Not sure how you've landed on smoking (especially since it's not even mentioned in the article)
There are a multitude of other methods of consuming cannabis.
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Weed doesn't cause cancer, perhaps you are thinking of cigarettes
Inhaling fumes from burning plant matter can't be good for your lungs though? How can it not increase the chance of cancer (even if to a lesser degree) if you smoked as many joints as some people smoke cigarettes per day (of course you'd have other problems if you tried that)?
You're conflating legalization of Cannabis with the method of consumption.
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Singapore is great. They still have a civilization building culture, like Americans used to have. If they had acted like modern Americans it would still be a poor country. Though, I agree prison is too much. We should publicly cane people who smoke MJ in public.
I saw an interesting tweet to this effect: https://twitter.com/waspmexicano/status/1633934987664957442 I would be very curious to see if there's data on whether replacing prison with caning (for certain crimes) reduces recidivism.
A colleague from Singapore told me that caning isn’t much of a thing anymore. If you are sentenced to a number of strikes, these will be broken up into a number of „appointments“. Apparently you can easily avoid them with a letter from your doctor.
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#80Sad. We need to move away from smoking, not encourage this cancer-causing good-for-nothing behavior. Not to mention it causes streets to smell like a skunk.
Not sure how you've landed on smoking (especially since it's not even mentioned in the article) There are a multitude of other methods of consuming cannabis.
Sure.. most people still smoke it though. Which is what matters.
If Germany was only planning to legalize edibles, oils etc. it would be a different matter.
Not that I care that much about the smell. And increased cancer risk shouldn't be that high either unless you start smoking weed every day.