Japan managed to win its war on drugs. Why can't we?

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You clearly have no idea what Marijuana prohibition is. It began as a Jim Crow law that was disproportionately applied to African Americans.

You say I'm spreading cancer? My mom is a cancer researcher & she favors legalization because cannabidiol saves lives. I wouldn't be alive to write this had I not been introduced to medical Marijuana.

I think you just don't care about others cancer nor seizures, PTSD, neuropathy, or pretty much any chronic pain conditions.

The fact that you mentioned cancer as a casual bit of slang says a lot about you. Bye.

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I'm a pothead & I test the browser you're using to insult me. You're welcome for the quality code.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Wake up. There is no such thing as a good war.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

OP strikes me as squeamish & paranoid. Pretty commonplace THC side effects, ironically enough.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Some of the best reasons for marijuana prohibition:

- Hemp makes cheaper paper than forestry and thus it would hurt the forestry business.
- It's associated with interracial relationships which were illegal when it was banned, ie. it promotes unlawful behavior.
- It's something people tend to do who don't fit in, and if you don't fit in or find yourself in social or financial hardship you shouldn't have any way around that but to either suffer or fix up whatever's causing you to not fit in. Even if getting high doesn't do brain damage it's pleasure not given as a societal reward and thus is sinful. Also if it helps your ADD or or other issues there are clean, socially achieved, post-grad educated men and women who can prescribe you pills for such things - pills that are socially sanctioned rather than pot which is tabooed.

Queuing this up, I think it'll be worth the watch:

The strangest thing about this argument is the same people who can see exactly what Big Tobacco is cannot see that they are being manipulated by exactly the same kind of cynical, amoral suits. Big Tobacco Dope is going to make a killing, again, in more ways than one. Where do you think all this pro-cannabis propaganda comes from?

If the tobacco lobby had told you in the 1930s that we should ignore the correlation between tobacco smoking and lung cancer because it's likely that smokers are "self medicating" for preexisting lung problems would you fall for it?

If tobacco were illegal in the 1930s and billionaires were trying to make it legal, knowing that there was a correlation between smoking and many lethal lung conditions, would you fall for it?

Just because something is considered legal doesn't always make it a right thing to do.