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I'm not surprised to see decades of propaganda and clichés have done their work on many of us.
It's more like having stoner friends and doing things with them has convinced me just how important it is that they aren't the ones driving. In fact, I'd say the same of anyone even people on traditional drugs.
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But they do. Your kids will be put to prison for drunk driving, drinking in public places or you will go to prison for buying them booze. Is it an oppressive world? Do you feel the urge of strongly fighting against it and promote alcohol? I'm amazed how people regard fighting for legalisation of yet another drug as some sort of a freedom fighting act.
Well that's a topic shift. Outlawing a thing is not the same as outlawing its abuse. I'm against drunk driving, yes. I'm also against pilots flying without any sleep. But I would disagree with the assertion that anyone who stays up late belongs in prison. Sometimes the "cure" (in this case, prison time) is worse than the "disease" (marijuana use).
I've been pretty happy about cigarettes getting gradually outlawed, now I'm supposed to be cheering the rise of marijuana? As if we don't have enough junkies already.
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I've seen way too much harm done by alcohol than good. Unfortunately, it's already normalised since ages, but I'm glad it's getting regarded in a negative light more and more. People complain about being sent to jail for weed as if this they are suffering a political persecution, but people can get in legal trouble for drinking alcohol in public places or illegally producing or selling it as well. In some European co…
>In some European countries, if both parents are caught drinking alcohol at the same time, even just beer, they'll be stripped of their parental rights. Which countries exactly? Never heard of that
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"Also the idea of stoned people driving cars sounds scary. " Depends how stoned, but people routinely drive while using medication that affects them far more than being a bit stoned.
i think driving is probably already dangerous enough without adding cannabis or any other psychoactive into the mix
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Romans have enslaved our children, raped our wives, desecrated our holy places and burned our priests. They razed our villages, slaughtered our herds, and forced our young men into their military service. So glad that they brought us civilisation!
Obligatory https://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ?si=ZcQQorNm5px-XoY_
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Very short sighted thinking. If they beheaded Sam bankman fried there will be a clear message to not commit financial crime, and the aspiration and motivation would almost zero. The gesture of the freeing these two brave whistleblowers is much more important than you think. Noam Chomsky calls this censorship flak of his five filters. > If you want to challenge power, you’ll be pushed to the margins. When the media –…
I can only remain bemused at how some people weigh things; 300,000 people were arrested in 2020 for possession of marijuana [1]. There is nothing short-sighted about wishing the free so many people of the misery of being under the same thumb (the penal system) that you bemoan for Assange and Snowden. 1. https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/317793-people-were-a...
Weed being illegal on a federal level has had some interesting effects. Because of these laws, all legal weed has to be grown, processed, and retailed within a single state. So much industry and local employment has been created by the legal barriers in place. It’s probably still a net positive to release the federal restriction, but I hope all these small/mid sized businesses don’t get gulped up by big tobacco or ot…
it's another good reason to advocate for more state autonomy . prior to 80s savings & loan crisis and then financial collapse, small family run banks were thriving too
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Don’t bully people for smoking a plant. Easy.
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No he was not. You think he'd repeatedly do Russian roulette with half the bullets? He had the odds with him with his legal advisors. Madoff's sentencing is why SBF's parents taught him to disregard the law. If you don't understand the idea of figureheads being important, what would happen if the president was shot, or if Dali lama was chosen by china? America would still keep going as would tibetan Buddhism. The lea…
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Have you used WikiLeaks? When was the last time it was consequencial or noteworthy?
Here's a recent article with Julian assange. https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/julian-assange-wi...
> He regrets that WikiLeaks is no longer able to expose war crimes and corruption as in the past. His imprisonment and US government surveillance and restrictions on WikiLeaks’ funding wards off potential whistleblowers. He fears that other media outlets are not filling the vacuum.
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I don't see how this anything but a mandate for the DEA to crack down on recreational.
I don't see how rescheduling to a less-restrictive category is a mandate to change the existing enforcement policy to a more restrictive one.
Maybe recreational ketamine and codeine will be a thing?