Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?

HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s also easier to make than cannabis. Alcohol will ferment in nature, you literally don’t have to do anything to make (crappy) alcohol. Good luck banning that, we tried once, went even worse than the war on drugs.

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  • Vent@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Marijuana grows in nature and you just need to dry it out and light it on fire.

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    • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But you need a very specific plant, dry-it, and burn-it. Just let some fruit ripe and you’ll get alcohol. The ability to digest alcohol (rather than being poisoned) is one of the evolutionary advantage of some “great apes” including humans. It’s pretty great because it give us access to more food. Look how fruits into alcohol (wine, cider and more) is a great way to preserve them for the winter

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      • zout@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Don't bother answering here, the THC crowd is downvoting everyone who says alcohol is easier to make. It feels like reddit to be honest.

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    • zout@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And hope there's enough THC in there, because pollination basically ruins the THC content.

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      • CuttingBoard@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fertilization does not kill THC. Nobody wants to buy weed full of seeds. Seeds have weight. It’s similar to BBQ rubs. Take out the salt and see what they weigh. Salt is heavy and cheap.

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    • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Kinda. IIRC, if it is fertilized it doesn’t really work as a drug.

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Works fine as a drug if fertilized…

        To quote afroman:

        So roll, roll, roll my joint, pick out the seeds and stems

        Feelin’ high as hell, flyin’ through Palmdale, skatin’ on Dayton rims

        Back in the day most weed came with seeds. Doesn’t really change the THC content, just means you gotta pick them out before hand, hence sinsemilla, which is preferable, because it has denser buds, and no seeds.

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  • Riccosuave@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s also easier to make than cannabis.

    You are aware that Cannabis is a plant, and therefore naturally occurring, yes? It was literally on the planet for hundreds of millions of years before modern homosapiens.

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    • zout@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To make marijuana, you need to dry the flowers of unpollinated female cannabis plants. It takes some effort and time to grow them like this. To make alcohol, you squash a bunch of overripe fruit, put it in a semi closed container and forget about it for a week or two. There are even video's of animals in the wild eating overripe fruit and getting wasted from it. So yeah, it is easier to make.

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      • Riccosuave@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have personally grown, sold, and been around commercial Cannabis cultivation my entire adult life. We are gonna have to agree to disagree on this one.

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aka, a lot of old money people are really invested in it.

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  • Melkath@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ya. That. And not prohibition. Aka money people trying to outlaw it and the people saying "you can't control me".

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• stinerman@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes if someone invented it today, it’d be banned. Just like libraries.

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• vodkasolution@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was about to reply “tradition” but you got it better

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