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At some point you cross the line between philosophical noodling and outright advocating the execution of everyone involved in the drug trade.
Man keeps telling you, quite clearly, exactly what he believes, and you refuse to believe him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367591
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At some point you cross the line between philosophical noodling and outright advocating the execution of everyone involved in the drug trade.
If people in a society vote to deal with this issue, and their solution is to execute people in the drug-trade, why is that bad? Why is Rayiner's legitimate opinion being considered illegitimate by you?
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At some point you cross the line between philosophical noodling and outright advocating the execution of everyone involved in the drug trade.
And why would that be bad? People actively in the drug trade are profiting off the misery of others and the degradation of society. There is a host of associated crimes that occur due to drug-use and in places where drugs and drug-abusers are prevalent. If people in a society vote to deal with this issue, and their solution is to execute people in the drug-trade, why is that bad? Why is Rayiner's legitimate opinion b…
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As someone who had an alcoholic stepfather growing up, me and my mother would both ultimately have preferred a lotus eater. Alcohol is already legal (and always will be, as prohibition showed us), so there's no point in criminalizing any drug that's less destructive than alcohol is.
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At some point you cross the line between philosophical noodling and outright advocating the execution of everyone involved in the drug trade.
Man keeps telling you, quite clearly, exactly what he believes, and you refuse to believe him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367591
À nation of lotus eaters. What could go wrong?
18%* of the nation, so not quite the blanket generalization that your judgemental approach would like it to be. Edit: And that number even includes people who have used it "at least once", so the number of regular/habitual users would be lower than that. https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/data-statistics.htm
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18%* of the nation, so not quite the blanket generalization that your judgemental approach would like it to be. Edit: And that number even includes people who have used it "at least once", so the number of regular/habitual users would be lower than that. https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/data-statistics.htm
It will 100% go up over time. An important (perhaps the most important) part of law is signaling social norms. We don’t make it illegal to steal because we think we can enforce every little instance of shoplifting. We do it so we can clearly signal that it’s “bad.” Those signals keep the normal people on the moral path. When you remove that signal, you’ll normalize it and usage will go up.
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It will 100% go up over time. An important (perhaps the most important) part of law is signaling social norms. We don’t make it illegal to steal because we think we can enforce every little instance of shoplifting. We do it so we can clearly signal that it’s “bad.” Those signals keep the normal people on the moral path. When you remove that signal, you’ll normalize it and usage will go up.
Usage will increase, but it's laughable that people think this will turn us into a nation of locust eaters.
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Usage will increase, but it's laughable that people think this will turn us into a nation of locust eaters.
Why is it laughable?
But cannabis itself turning us into a nation of locust eaters? Laughable.
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As someone who had an alcoholic stepfather growing up, me and my mother would both ultimately have preferred a lotus eater. Alcohol is already legal (and always will be, as prohibition showed us), so there's no point in criminalizing any drug that's less destructive than alcohol is.
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