Especially when it has medicinal applications.
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Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Honestly, I kind of think my country (France) forbids weed today because of all the bullshit of the Reagan era and it’s pretty infuriating.
Their depiction of weed as some super dangerous class 3000 hardcore drug ended up as some kind of standard for most of the developed countries.
It sucks.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just like morphine. That doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous
OctopusKurwa@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If you think morphine is comparably dangerous to cannabis then you’re nuts.
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I never said it was, just that it being used as a medicine doesn’t make it “safe”
PapaStevesy@midwest.social 1 year ago
Being medicinal doesn’t make it not dangerous, but thankfully, reality does.
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As safe as trash food, porn and a sedentary and isolated life?
nomecks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Smoking weed will make you… DUTCH!
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A fate worse than death
schmorpel@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
agreed, being tall would be cool tho
schmorpel@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
It’s just bewildering to prohibit a plant that is easy to grow, serves a lot of uses, and doesn’t easily get you killed.
I’m also in Europe, and still trying to cope with the fact that I got into trouble with the law for tending a garden. Well I guess at least it re-radicalized me for all it’s worth.
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I had a similar experience with my poppy field ringed with gympie gympie.
I’m all for legalisation, and I’m a regular user, but the fact that it’s a plant has always struck me as a weak argument. We can do better.
It’s one tier better than “It’s natural!” (So are asbestos, arsenic, and anthrax.)
vivadanang@lemm.ee 1 year ago
considering how much French society despises US policy, I’m kind of amazed that France is still prohibitionist - that really does suck mate.
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or maybe because it’s a drug (alcohol and tobacco are too ingrained in society to be outlawed, and despite that tobacco consumption is decreasing)
Asifall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean there are tons of drugs which are perfectly legal, so I don’t really see that as a sound reason to outlaw it.
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Tons of drugs” literally just tobacco and alcohol
Asifall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And caffeine And acetaminophen And ibuprofen And sildenafil And benzodiazepine And fluoxetine And sertraline And spironolactone And cetirizine …
brainrein@feddit.de 1 year ago
It’s just indication to the fact, that the biggest part of our assumed development, our democracy, or our rule of reason is but a delusion.