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Originally Posted by MattyC
I think you've been great in this thread Frequitude. It's nice to have people pushing along the conversation.
Given your lack of knowledge on the subject coming in, would you say you are open to having that opinion changed? It seems like you're pretty apathetic on the scenario, do you want to remain that way or are you actually looking to come away with a more informed position?
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I'm always open to having my opinion changed on any topic. The problem here is that I don't even fully understand why I have my opinion. But I'll try to step through the logic.
1) Let's start with the health impacts of smoking weed vs not smoking weed. I believe that smoking weed is detrimental to the health and productivity of our society relative to not smoking weed.
2) Now to tackle the health impacts of consuming alcohol vs smoking weed. I believe they are both bad. For the sake of the exercise, I will take it at face value that alcohol is more damaging than weed.
3) I will throw out the alternative of banning both.
4) Now for the question of, because of #2, would I choose to swap the legality of alcohol and marijuana? My answer would be no because I don't think the social upheaval of banning alcohol is worth the health upgrade.
5) So now the question is, would I add marijuana to the group of legal drugs along with alcohol? And my thought is no, because of #1. Regardless of the accepted fact that it is less harmfull than alcohol, the cumulative harm of both is greater than of one. I don't like society taking a step in that direction.
Now to digest that...