Pros/cons to legalize marijuana in a country (lemmy.world)

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Question for those of you living in a country where marijuana is legal. What are the positive sides, what are the negatives?

If you could go back in time, would you vote for legalising again? Does it affect the country's illegal drug business , more/less?

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[-] Noerknhar@feddit.org 0 points 4 weeks ago

Pro:

people aren't criminalised for kinda nothing.
you detach it from other drugs (the regular dealer will also have other stuff for sale - not an issue if you buy officially or grow yourself).

Con:

despite what people claim, there are people that get highly addicted to cannabis. Probably similar to alcohol, you'd say? Well, in my unpopular opinion, alcohol also shouldn't be available the way it currently is (make it insanely expensive please).
most people consume it with tobacco, so there's that to deal with.

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

Alcohol just isn't hard to make. It's also really easy to sneak into places. You could never make it insanely expensive. It would just all go black market.

[-] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

Making it expensive only bankrupts addicts and makes more things privileges for the rich.

[-] Noerknhar@feddit.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

Worked in Norway and Finland.

[-] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Places with much stronger social safety nets and much more accessible healthcare.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 weeks ago

Agree with the pros, not really with the cons to the extreme that you describe.

[-] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago

Kurz gesagt did a pretty good episode, balancing the pros & cons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBRaI0ZeAf8

[-] scintilla@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh hey look the propaganda machine I used to watch.

[-] Noerknhar@feddit.org 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I've seen people so addicted to it that they stopped going to work and completely ignored their family. I don't have numbers to put it into perspective, but the sheer level of addiction was beyond what I thought was realistic.

[-] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago

Hey, I noticed it in another comment of yours so I thought I'd say something-

"Stopped to go to work" in English implies that they stopped smoking weed so that they could go to work. You're looking for "stopped going to work"

[-] Noerknhar@feddit.org 1 points 4 weeks ago

Appreciated!

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