The actual damage that it does do through impaired driving causes actual damage through killing innocent people as well as contributes to laziness.
Comment on Sagan, you look high.
Kuori@hexbear.net 1 month agoah yes the myriad dangers of eating too many cookies and falling asleep watching nature documentaries
this scourge must end!
Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 1 month ago
Kuori@hexbear.net 1 month ago
distracted driving impairs your ability to operate a vehicle significantly, better ban
talking topassengers!or you know. just invest in public transit instead and ban cars.
Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 1 month ago
Do you want a bunch of marijuana smokers on public transit with you? Exposing others to the dangerous smoke and causing such a noxious odor? Even if you ban cars they still are too impaired for things like bikes which cannot be easily done away with.
“Mass shooters at Rep. Gabby Giffords’s constituent meeting in Tucson, Ariz. (2011), a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. (2012), the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. (2016), the First Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas (2017), and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (2018), were reported to be marijuana users.” (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9462911/). They are apt to commit violent crimes beyond just what they do on the roads.
Kuori@hexbear.net 1 month ago
i think this is the only time in my life i’ve ever encountered someone who isn’t an arch conservative try to make the claim that weed contributes to sexual assault (per your argument elsewhere in the thread) and mass murder. did your parents leave you in a locked room with nothing but reefer madness for entertainment as a kid or something?
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Sib please get on a fucking bus once in your life. You are not allowed to smoke on them, marijuana or no.
Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Yes, so does lack of sleep. Put anyone in jail who pulls an all nighter
Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 1 month ago
That is much harder to regulate. If someone is driving while tired then they also should be facing other sanctions.
Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 1 month ago
if someone is driving while high then they should face consequences, but otherwise no crime has been committed. You can’t just do pre-crime to justify your views
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 1 month ago
So you’re also arguing alcohol should be banned?
Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 1 month ago
I am not currently arguing that as that is not the subject being discussed on this post, but yes, I do support banning alcohol and think it absolutely should be a goal to eliminate all of these useless materials that lead only to death of innocent individuals, abuse, and crime.
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Well no, if you wanted to keep the discussion to marijuana then you should have stuck to actual criticisms of the drug instead of criticising potential consequences of misuse, which can apply to a lot of things. Driving unimpaired also kills innocent people, do you think driving should be banned?
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Who is advocating letting people drive high? Just like with alcohol, it should have a time and a place and it should be a crime to operate a vehicle under its influence.
Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 1 month ago
If a substance is legal then people will drive on it. Look at it when it comes to alcohol. Drunk driving is illegal but thousands still do it constantly
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
They are driving under it even if it is illegal. The legality won’t change that.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 month ago
You’re laughing but I’ve been a passive victim of that danger!
I used to live with someone who smoke cannabis on a regular basis. One day I went to bed, and my room-mate stayed on the garden, smoking his joint. When I woke up, the sandwich I prepared for my breakfast was… gone.
Are you getting the full picture? An addict was stealing the sustenance of poor victim, due to his illegal psychoactive substance usage! Cannabis is danger! Don’t cannabis!
Or if you do, prepare the munchies beforehand.[To be fair with him, on the same day he prepared me a way better sandwich as apology. And it isn’t like I went to the uni hungry, at morning I just whipped up some egg farofa and problem solved.]