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Which do you think will be the next country to legalize recreational cannabis?
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Hopefully none. Cannabis is really bad for your health and should NOT be used for "fun":
There's thousands of activities with less adverse effects than doing drugs. PLEASE get a hobby other than trying to fry your brain with chemicals.
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Is that any worse than caffeine, alcohol, etc? Do you advocate for making those illegal?
Yes. Their production should be illegal and punished with fines and jailtime. Their recreational use should be punished with fines (take away the money they would've used to buy more substances) and forced rehab, ie. Classes on how to stop relying on those drugs.
That sounds pretty totalitarian
Right, nothing more totalitarian than wanting to save people's lives. Let's allow everyone to do everything that makes them feel good, consequences be damned. What's the worst that could happen?
Genuinely curious where do you draw the line?
Like honest question: Do you think we should ban every activity that is as risky as consuming marijuana? If not, why not? Why marijuana and not everything else.
If we’re banning marijuana to save lives because it’s too risky we should be banning driving a car, and climbing a ladder, and hundred other common everyday activities that are more likely to kill you then smoking pot.
You’re not wrong, there are health risks to weed. But there’s risks with literally everything, and weed is really far down on the list of most risky activities.
Going up a ladder and using a car fulfill a practical purpose, and there are numerous safety precautions you can take to minimize the potential risk of an injury. On the contrary, recreational cannabis is explicitly done for fun, and there isn't really a "risk-safe" way of developing schizophrenia due to substance abuse lmao
Your use of the word "risky" implies that there's a consequence-free way of doing cannabis. There is not. You will always suffer adverse health effects by doing marijuana.
And to answer your question, no. Because security precautions can be taken to do other fun activities safely. There are no sufficient precautions which would allow you to do marijuana 100% safely.
Should we ban roller coasters? They fulfill no practical purpose, and only add risk of injury.