Meanwhile alcohol, one of the most harmful substances, is being consumed like water 😐
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MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 months 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 in your person imma sens you to prison for 30 fucking years and ruin your life.
It does not. Make. Sense.
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 2 months ago
Delicious, masterfully distilled, barrel aged, water of life 👉😉👉🥃
tomi000@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ew, who drinks water?
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s the dudes with the bud light cans.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months ago
Imagine being so car brained that you base personal freedom around it
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 months ago
I honestly despise you 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. Fuck you.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The best way to eliminate this risk is public transit.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yes. I want to ban cars too.
CoolCat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can easily test if they’re in someone’s system with a saliva test, so your argument doesn’t make any sense.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Can you hook a saliva test to a car’s ignition system to only allow sober people to start the car?
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Now lick the knob
CoolCat@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 months ago
I am 100% on bike I see no argument on there. Just don’t smoke 3 day before you have to drive.
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
They have mouth swabs they use now that can tell for smoking.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Those can’t be used on the road and can’t be integrated into a car’s startup system.
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
They can be used when pulled over just like a breathylyzer (although this is the law in my state and I’m in USA all places may not have the same rules) but I do see what you are saying about hooking it up to the car like the breath machines.
Man, someone could potentially make a lot of money to be the first ones to roll that out.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 2 months ago
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.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.
MML@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 months ago
Elderly people shouldn’t be allowed to drive.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It makes sense if you recognize it as an excuse to harass black and Latino people
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 months 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
Kanda@reddthat.com 2 months 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
Numenor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You were off work smoking weed for 12 years?
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you had that chance, are you saying you wouldn’t?
Kanda@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Sort of. Racked up a bunch of student debt pretending to read. Could have been working all those years
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can attest to this, I too smoked all day every day and one day I was just too lazy to go buy more weed and I haven’t smoked since. That was 15 years ago.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not really because of weed itself, a lot of countries in East Asia have very strict drug laws. Historically it ties into the boxer rebellion and the way the West used opium to control China.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Gotta keep feeding the slave force.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 months 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 2 months ago
IIRC the US heavily pressured other countries with tariffs to also ban it
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
good old imperialism. plus they are involved profit off of the illegal drug trade.
miked@piefed.social 2 months ago
It goes farther back than that. DuPont and Hurst had a hand in making cannabis look bad.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
And hemp makes for a garbage printing medium anyway
embed_me@programming.dev 2 months ago
India here, colonial penal code outlawed it but we’re too prudish to change it after independence
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They outlawed it because hemp was a competitor or cotton I thought
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I thought it was about paper prices?
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 months 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