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Originally Posted by Frequitude
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...
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1)People don't just smoke weed. It can be consumed a number of ways.
It is proven that weed doesn't necessarily make people unproductive. As a matter of fact, some folks use weed to be MORE productive and creative.
2)Eating chips is bad for your health. So is eating sugar and breathing in smog. Some folks are more susceptible to adverse side effects of weed, such as psychosis etc. this is true - but overall weed is beneath alcohol significantly regarding potential health issues from usage. No one has OD'd from weed. Does weed cause lung cancer? There is no proof that it does. Not on the level of tobacco.
4) adults should be able to decide whether they wish to consume weed or alcohol, and it's pure hypocrisy having booze legal and weed illegal when alcohol is far more damaging to the body and dangerous.
5)Lots of people use weed right now. At this very moment. Why not place controls on it by making it legal? Selling it to adults, with awareness campaigns regarding its usage?
Weed has been around and used since the dawn of time, and has/is used by some of the greatest minds. It's only in the 20th century that certain groups decided to vilify it with misinformation