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Fully Half of Americans Have Tried Marijuana (news.gallup.com)

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50% of U.S. adults say they have experimented with marijuana
About one in six Americans (17%) are current users
Three in four Americans are concerned about effects on young/teen users

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[-] Finnish_nationalisti@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago

The point still stands, it is a heavily mind altering substance that has no benefits when used recreationally (this is the point of the word recreational), and as such must be banned.

What? How does that point stand? That logic is heavily mastubatory at best. Most recreational activities have "no benefits" beyond the recreation itself. Banning them isn't the answer.

Banning a common activity is itself harmful. The decrease on organized crime in states that have legalized should be proof enough that the ban just doesn't fit our society.

[-] Finnish_nationalisti@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

as no-one who isn't addicted to the substance will take the risk of procuring it illegally. And the ones who are addicted obviously require medical care.

More mastubatory logic there. If that were true, there would be no users of a product withing a generation of banning it.

The decrease of organised crime in drug trade is no argument, one could argue that murder should be legal since the amount of convicted murderers goes down if it is legalised.

If murders only harmed the murderer that might be the case. The use of drugs is nominally victimless. And the only decision we need to make about a popular product in a free society is do we want CVS or Walmart selling it or organized crime.

Not to mention how the ban on certain drugs in America isn't designed to lower the usage of drugs to begin with, rather simply profit off it in various ways.

It has had that effect though.

Recreational drug use serves no such purpose and only exists to numb one's mind from the outside world, and likely their troubles, this fact just is covered by pretty words about "relaxation" and such.

Many leisure activities serve no immediate purpose other than relaxation. I see you've ignored the socialization aspect of recreational drugs and their effects on the various arts too.

Also only half the drugs roughly "numb ones mind." Those are downers. Uppers increase brain activity.

[-] Finnish_nationalisti@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

society itself is the victim

So victimless. That's the definition.

and defending them is a result of one's lack of self-discipline and lazyness.

Is it? It is it just reasonable to realize that millions of years of mamillian evolution have led to leisure as normal a part of the species.

no benefits,

Uppers increase brain activity.

What?

[-] Finnish_nationalisti@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] heveysetter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Nah fr. At my old university the school found out alot of students who quit marijuana had their grades improve, not because weed =bad, but rather that removing the CBD allowed them to increase their ambition.

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago

So victimless. That’s the definition.

Only to a selfish individualist who puts his one gain before the good of everyone else.

Examples of Victimless Crimes

There is no set definition of a victimless crime, and each person may have a different opinion about whether a criminal offense is actually victimless. Some of the common examples of actions that may be called victimless crimes include:

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Recreational drug use

Drug possession

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Possession of contraband

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Please cite your source on all people believing the definition of the word being "selfish individuals".

Literally only in the opulent West and in the last few decades is it considered normal for one to slack off doing absolutely nothing usefull for the better part of the day.

Citation needed.

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