Question for those of you living in a country where marijuana is legal. What are the positive sides, what are the negatives?

If you could go back in time, would you vote for legalising again? Does it affect the country’s illegal drug business , more/less?

  • lenz@lemmy.ml
    14·
    10 hours ago

    I am happy with the legalization. I’ve never smoked weed or even drunk alcohol despite being legally able to do so. And I still think weed legalization was a huge benefit for many reasons.

    1. Reduction of organized crime around weed.
    2. Cops are less able to do illegal searches on you because they “””””smell marijuana”””””
    3. Weed is shown to be vastly less harmful than alcohol, so I always found it hypocritical that we allow one but not the other. Especially since alcoholism is so much worse and far more prevalent than weed addiction.
    4. Less people rotting in jail for non-violent crimes.
    5. Better access to weed for medical reasons across the board, leading to an overall improvement in many people’s quality of life.

    Like. Why was this bs ever illegal in the first place?

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      1·
      11 minutes ago

      Like. Why was this bs ever illegal in the first place?

      Us answer:

      I believe Nixon realized they couldn’t make it illegal to be against the war and otherwise left wing, but they could make things correlated with that illegal. And thus the war on drugs was born. It also lets the state enforce white supremacy.

      Recommend reading “the new Jim Crow” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow