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[–] 216 points 6 months ago* (63 children)

Weed is such a harmless little bullshit drug to be so ridiculously over-the-top hyper criminalized in some countries like bruh.

Weed is gonna ruin your life because if you have it on your person imma sens you to prison for 30 fucking years and ruin your life.

It does not. Make. Sense.

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  • [–] 101 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Outlawing cannabis products was essentially an exercise in deliberate systemic racism in the US. (Nixon).

    Unsure about the rest of the world.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I thought it was about paper prices?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Yep, William Randolph Hearst fucked everything over for his textile businesses long before Nixon, but it is true that racism played a big factor, namely beginning to refer to it as marijuana instead of cannabis and linking that to those pesky Latinos

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Making cocaine illegal was for black people. Weed was for the hippies.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Oh yeah. To suppress the anti (Vietnam) war protests.

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  • [–] 82 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Meanwhile alcohol, one of the most harmful substances, is being consumed like water 😐

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    You can easily test if they're in someone's system with a saliva test, so your argument doesn't make any sense.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Blood test is better for weed. It's only detectable for 12h vs 24h with saliva.

    But levels of THC aren't really correlated with impairment.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    They have mouth swabs they use now that can tell for smoking.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    They can be used when pulled over just like a breathylyzer (although this is the law in my state and I'm in USA all places may not have the same rules) but I do see what you are saying about hooking it up to the car like the breath machines.

    Man, someone could potentially make a lot of money to be the first ones to roll that out.

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    Imagine being so car brained that you base personal freedom around it

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think this is "car brained". They're not saying anything around public transit, just that we need to have a test for DWI and weed. People shouldn't be jailed for 30 years regardless of the presence of the test or not, but we do still need some other test. Otherwise I guarantee that "don't drive while baked" will be the next infomercial you see in a few years.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Missing the point a bit, we shouldn't base legalization around if people are going to drive their cars on a substance.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    100% agreed. Like I said I think it should be legal regardless, the punishments are way too severe for what it is. But on a completely different note, we do still need the tests. I love drinking and I love smoking, but there are rules of the road, and one of those is "don't drive the death machine with impaired judgement".

    But yes you're right, the legality shouldn't be based on if "but what if they drive". I'm more saying "if you do some life-disregarding level ignorant" shit you're still getting in trouble.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    That's honestly a very odd reaction, for what it's worth I meant it lightheartedly.

    Of course I think pedestrians and cyclists also deserve safety.

    I would like to point out however that a majority of incidents are drunk drivers who do not already have a device like that in their car, so it's a tad bit absurd to indicate your hard line for legalization is that when it would only apply after the fact anyway.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Sorry, that was too rude, I just got really upset... It's odd, I've never really gotten angry at internet comments until now.

    I just wanted to point out my single issue with weed, which is more an issue with car centric infrastructure.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Sorry for making you angry!

    Yeah, it's hard, it's not like you're wrong that driving while baked is more dangerous then sober, but to your point I think the way our infrastructure is built where pedestrians are an afterthought if thought about at all, definitely contributes to make it even more dangerous.

    I wish we had more walkable/bike-friendly locations, it's just not super likely given how large the US is

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Nothing you said was rude. In fact everything you said was correct on all counts. I think the other person was just joking

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I edited my comment. I said that I despised them and said "fuck you". Not that bad, but I changed it to be a little less abrasive.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    thank you for explaining, I was a little confused about the exchange until I read this. I think the edit was valid and a positive but I just wish there was an edit history for better context sometimes.

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    β€’And hippies β€’And folks against the war β€’And a way to fill for-profit prisons β€’And a way to control where/how people live β€’And a way to make cotton plantations make more β€’And a way to prohibit something since alcohol bans didn’t work out

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I did it all day every day for 12 years, then quit and went back to work like nothing happened. Try that with any other drug

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