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[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 20 points 1 week ago

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

Unsure about the rest of the world.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

IIRC the US heavily pressured other countries with tariffs to also ban it

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

good old imperialism. plus they are involved profit off of the illegal drug trade.

[-] miked@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

It goes farther back than that. DuPont and Hurst had a hand in making cannabis look bad.

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

And hemp makes for a garbage printing medium anyway

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 week ago

Yup. The goal was to make both groups felons to prevent them from voting.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

They wanted Mexicans out too.

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

India here, colonial penal code outlawed it but we're too prudish to change it after independence

I thought it was about paper prices?

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week 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

[-] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

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

[-] tomi000@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's the dudes with the bud light cans.

[-] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Delicious, masterfully distilled, barrel aged, water of life 👉😉👉🥃

[-] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

The only issue I have with weed, and most other drugs, is that you can't easily test for them in a person's system, meaning that you can't know if someone's driving under the influence. This wouldn't be as much of a problem if not for the fact that we have have such a car centric society. I don't like people endangering other people just for a buzz.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I honestly ......... for calling me "car brained". That insult hurt me more than any other I've received. I want to protect pedestrians and cyclists from people driving cars under the influence. I want to limit driving people's freedom to make life better for everyone.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The best way to eliminate this risk is public transit.

[-] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Yes. I want to ban cars too.

[-] CoolCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] freebee@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I would even say some drivers might be better drivers with hints of calming THC&CBD in their system...

[-] CoolCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

12 to 24h seems good (maybe even too long imho) in the context of driving a car.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 1 week ago

Not when the levels have no bearing on intoxication.

[-] CoolCat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I hear you. The saliva test isn't perfect, but it's something.

Where I live only a doctor is allowed to draw and test your blood, which is tough to do at the side of the road during a traffic stop. They need a lab for that. So a saliva test is much more viable in that context.

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

The same applies to alcohol to some degree. We as a society need to set some limits

[-] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 week ago

Can you hook a saliva test to a car's ignition system to only allow sober people to start the car?

[-] CoolCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No, but not every car has a breathalyzer. Only repeat offenders get one of those. So the point still stands imo. Maybe someday the saliva test can be hooked up to the ignition.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Now lick the knob

[-] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

I am 100% on bike I see no argument on there. Just don't smoke 3 day before you have to drive.

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Oh they don't really let it stop them over here, they just use whatever shitty system they have available and let you deal with the false positives and the fact it detects it for much longer than you are intoxicated.

Eh, you can still do a blood test in conjunction with a field sobriety test. Its not as cut and dry as something like alcohol, but to be honest it really shouldn't be anyways considering how much more dangerous driving while drunk is.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 0 points 1 week ago

Blood THC levels aren't indicative of impairment. Even high levels are only weakly associated with impairment in occasional users, and there's no correlation in regular users.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

You sound either like someone who has never smoked, or smokes way too much 😁

[-] MML@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

If you can't tell what problems is it causing? What about the elderly, just because they're not actively impairing themselves further it makes it alright that they are more impaired than a normal driver?

[-] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Elderly people shouldn't be allowed to drive.

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yuuup. Had the opportunity to move to Singapore about a decade ago... NOPE. Great place to visit. Amazing people and food. No weed. Don't even think about it.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It makes sense if you recognize it as an excuse to harass black and Latino people

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

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