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Sorta right, sorta wrong, premise is weak -- Weed is NOT PHYSICALLY ADDICTIVE. It can be psychologically.
Beer / hard liquor IS PHYSICALLY addictive. Cigarettes ARE. Caffeine IS.
US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
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#82I'm sorry but after seeing how american gradually get into worse and worse drugs, and seeing channel 5's video on people using tranq... yeah I think complete ban on drugs for non medical reasons is the best choice.
Which means ban tobacco and alcohol as well?
Don't forget coffee...
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Serious question: Do you feel just as strongly about alcohol, nicotine, gambling and sugar? Those all have an enormous societal costs as well.
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Ok, only leafy greens and protein pills for you, plus 2 hours of exercise per day and a mandated 9:30 PM bedtime. It's for your own good.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, enforcement is a form of treatment - just not the form some might want. We're trying the other way and failing right now. Perhaps we should figure out why...
Enforcement is not a form of treatment, regardless we've been trying enforcement since the 70s and it's been a disaster. Why would you want to double down on that?
> Enforcement is not a form of treatment, regardless we've been trying enforcement since the 70s and it's been a disaster.
This is often said - but what do you actually mean by disaster? Hard drug usage is objectively lower in strict enforcement areas vs. non-enforcement areas like Portland was briefly.
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Has society ever been safe, productive or prosperous? I’d argue it hasn’t. I think smaller collectives have managed to eek out a bit of solace but society as a whole has always been at each other’s throats. Our notion of productivity is mostly moved forward by one hand not seeing the other.
Modern first world countries are incredibly safe, productive and prosperous by any historical measure. You have to have a completely skewed perspective not to see this.
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It's moving to schedule III, though the new company it's in really highlights how it should be descheduled instead: > It moves pot to Schedule III, alongside ketamine and some anabolic steroids Hopefully the first step but not the last.
sure, marijuana shouldn't be considered 100% harmless, but it's ludicrous to argue it does the same amount of damage to people's bodies as ketamine (abuse can lead to kidney failure, bladder cystectomy) or even some sched. IV substances such as alprazolam (seizures from withdrawal can be fatal).
As someone who has taken ketamine for medical purposes and marijuana for not, it is utterly off-the-charts bonkers that they are classified identically.
A large dose of ketamine literally disconnects yourself from reality. Weed makes you tired.
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Of course not, that's how democracy works! My actual issue with this is: a) it should have been done sooner. Waiting until $election_year to do something popular has severely damaged the growth of cannabis industry and b) it's another executive branch rule by decree that could be reversed as soon as 6 months from now after election day.
> it should have been done sooner. Not everyone agrees though. I don't want it legalized or normalized more.
What about reclassification?
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Yes, because Prohibition was such a ringing success. Just because someone says you can't do something does not prevent someone from doing that thing. If people want something badly enough, they will find a way. When that want has progressed to being a literal need from addiction, the ways found will become more and more bold/risky. Hell, even if you added the drug that blocks the opiate receptors into the water suppl…
I downvoted you because while it may not have been successful at getting Americans to stop drinking, it was effective at reducing violent crimes caused by drinking, as well as the negative health effects such as liver cirrhosis. The anti drug control crowd has done a great job commandeering popular opinion on this topic. I found this (non-academic) article informative to this end. https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/20…
Well, minus the whole organized crime thing, which is a pretty gigantic elephant in the room.