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Originally Posted by big_ole_jpn
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alcohol and cigarettes both have natural mechanisms that prevent normal humans from abusing them extensively. pot is far easier for a decent person to fall into abusing.
Not sayin I agree with prohibition, just sayin maybe there are more important things to worry about politically than increasing the number of available vices! especially when it isn't a matter of principle and you're leaving decent psychedelics schedule 1! hope this helps
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Like the fact that this "vice" (read: medicine for some people) is clogging our (for profit) jails. Yeah, there are bigger issues than fighting for freedom and medicine and clearing out our overburdened prison system with non violent people who just wanted to get high...
Not sure how alcohol and cigarettes both have "natural mechanisms" that prevent abuse considering they are both very addictive...
"Drinking more than one drink a day for women or two drinks for men increases the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, and stroke.[29] Risk is greater in younger people due to binge drinking which may result in violence or accidents.[29] About 3.3 million deaths (5.9% of all deaths) are believed to be due to alcohol each year"
"Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including nearly 42,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers."
go ahead and tell me how many people a year die because of weed...
tell me how many people have ever become addicted to weed...
how many college kids get hospitalized for weed every year? How about drinking? I guess puking your guts out and dying could be called a "natural abuse prevention mechanic" but all you're really saying is these 2 substances are so harmful you'll die if you abuse them so people won't abuse them! That's incredibly dumb.
Do people abuse weed? Yes, the difference is its harmless even if abused AND people will continue to abuse and use it despite it being illegal, keeping it illegal just makes drug cartels rich/ causes drug violence / forces people to buy unregulated/untested/untaxed drugs / fills our prisons with people that were going to do nothing all day anyway so locking them up was kinda of pointless/expensive. But worst of all is you're denying an incredible medicine to people that desperately need it, ergo: people with epilepsy, cancer, arthritis, chronic pain, migraines... ect ect, I'm not going to tell you what simple google search would because if you're to stupid/lazy/coolaid drinking to do it yourself my words won't change you, maybe next you can tell me how opiate pain killers are non addicts and healthy alternatives (lol).
You must be low iq/ a big pharma employ(but you play this game so you're not employed lol, guess we know which it is)