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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
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And what did the AI cite as sources for these conclusions?
These conclusions are mine, based on research the AI did. None of these probabilities were directly output, it simply found lots of news articles, made simple models, researched what people have said & done historically.
>... it simply found lots of news articles, made simple models, researched what people have said & done historically.
Those are the sources OP is asking about. In point of fact, it would help if AI could provide the sources it used to determine it's response, that way users can verify it's accuracy.
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Personally, I love birds and animals and natural ecosystems, which is why I can never love technology: the two are at odds and technology has been more destructive to them than anything else.
"Personally, I love birds and animals and natural ecosystems" Me too, but I also love technology and see no fundamental problem between the two. So no, I do not love pesticides or the toxic waste of conventional mining. But I would love a smart robot working the fields with no need for toxic chemicals. And mining can also be done in a non toxic way. It is just more expensive with current tech.
So far, there is no evidence that mining could ever be done in a sustainable way, nor have we any evidence that advanced technology could be sustainable. Since the industrial revolution, it has not been and we have made no significant steps to change it.
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I guess the weed can still be stolen
Can't buy shit with weed. Gotta sell it. And that has time requirements and risks to you (including getting robbed yourself). Meanwhile these are cash-only businesses, so if you're gonna steal then go for the money. Esp. since most dispensaries I've seen do a reasonably brisk business.
Crazy I know but even in places where weed is legal, there's still a black market for it.
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I think these 'gateway drug' believers will be pleasantly surprised. One reason it's a gateway drug is because of a line of thought like this: 1) Govt says cannabis is the most dangerous drug. 2) I try cannabis, nothing bad happens. 3) So when the govt says drugs are dangerous, they are incorrect? I guess I can't use their rating system and will have to base it on my own experiences. There is a trust penalty for over…
That or the other 'gateway' pathway: 1) Govt says cannabis is the most dangerous drug. 2) I find someone who will sell me illegal thing. 3) I try cannabis, nothing bad happens. 4) Vendor has other items for sale.
That’s not an “other” gateway path… it’s an example of the same path described in the post you replied to.
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the wording of the questions aren't good, but the states that have recently banned it certainly seem to be catering to the 13% who say illegal under all circumstances, due to the extremeness of the actual laws passed before Roe was overturned I would have considered myself pro life because I don't believe in late term abortions, but with the new legal landscape I've become effectively pro choice because the new laws…
> I wonder how many are like me I believe there are many, on "both sides." I deeply appreciate your reply. This is extremely important. The wording is what it's all about. When we put it into terms like "pro-life"/"pro-choice" - it does nothing to address the hard realities which need to be addressed when writing law. We all keep getting played by yes/no, right/left, binary word game slogans. The realities are so muc…
> I wonder how many are like me
>I deeply appreciate your reply. This is extremely important.
>The wording is what it's all about. When we put it into terms like "pro-life"/"pro-choice" - it does nothing to address the hard realities which need to be addressed when writing law.
>We all keep getting played by yes/no, right/left, binary word game slogans. The realities are so much more complex.
This settles into a duopoly, with periodic swings depending on macro-level events, as naturally both sides align with a "good" and the other "bad" in an all-relative social moral grandstanding power contest.
90%+ of abortions are essentially birth control.
The moral, social, political, biological, religious, physiological, cultural, and constitutional subjectivity of the matter juxtaposed against the objective nature of (current) (nominal) child-birth is easily the most difficult topic to reach common ground between the most vocal extremes.
All the while, most people agree late-term, medically unnecessary abortions are abhorrent.
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The poor San Bernardino Sheriff's department is going to need a new funding source, too. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-28/marijuan...
Thanks for the link. I'm not a marijuana advocate, but from that article it sounds pretty plainly like so many other stories of law enforcement effectively stealing cash because they can, and are often instructed or incentivized to do so.
Civil asset forfeiture is fucking criminal. You don't even need to be arrested or convicted of a crime.
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Disagree. If you’re at a concert and someone smokes weed everyone is like “right on”. You smoke a cigarette and people want to fight you.
What does this have to do with how the respective smells linger?
I was disagreeing more with your second sentence, however as for the lingering, I also disagree. I have a couple contractors who were working in my warehouse and smoking skunk weed the whole time. (I know, I know, but they do good work.) The smell was gone the next day.
But you smoke a cigarette in an enclosed space and I’ll still smell it in a couple days. I think it must be the tar and other additives, and now I kind of want to find someone who smokes natural tobacco to come do it and see if I’m right.