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Comment by talmand | Hacker News Reader

That sucks, but I think I would like to hear the other side of the story before I render judgement.

"We saw a person of colour on the bus and it smelled vaguely like weed so we forced them to get off and strip for us to prove they weren't a drug dealer"?

Is that the official statement?

"Sorry, we know it's a little racist to single out the black guys, but the war on weed justifies radical measures. We're in Bavaria after all, everybody here knows weed is a dangerous gateway drug."

Actually Bavaria has a big and growing Crystal problem, and weed is indeed a gateway drug.

Of course it isn't a gateway drug. Complete nonsense.

Not everyone who smokes weed does harder drugs, but everyone who does harder drugs did smoke weed at some point. This argument makes sense and is not some version of "all spree killers eat bread, so bread must be bad", because the percentage of the population that smokes weed is relatively low (in Germany).

I am for legalization but I do allow myself to think differentiated, even about things I support.

I have seen people with psychoses caused by marijuana and I know smokers, who struggle to get something going in their lives.

I am not saying that weed is evil, I just know, that for some people it can be really dangerous.

Not sure why you're being down voted. I've also grown to want both sides. We don't know what's going on at the time and I trust cops as much as I trust the accused.

Indeed. But it's getting to be a typical thing these days. It's more react with emotions on the story that supports the bias instead of finding out the truth of the situation. Like the responses I'm getting of made up quotes, as if that's the truth of the matter. They don't even bother to ask what my initial feelings on the matter are, it's just an immediate disagreement because I don't automatically support the narrative they like. It's rather pathetic in my eyes.

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