Vermont becomes 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana market
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> The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in 11 states (Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington), the District of Columbia, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam.
There is no metric for which marijuana does more harm than alcohol, yet alcohol is perfectly fine.
- Watch out there is a person half a block away texting while crossing the street
- Are you sure you can't go 5mph slower?
- There is a ball rolling down that driveway, a child may follow
- AAAhhhhhhh! Wooooooooooooaaaahhh!
- For every 50% increase in velocity we double our kinetic energy
Driving on weed sounds like pure hell.
I think you read past my statement and went directly to the outrage. And to vmception: No! Operating any form of dangerous equipment while less-capable than some threshold should be illegal.
Mormons would ban coffee if they could.
On the one hand, I have explicitly resigned from the LDS church. I think they engage in immoral practices and I can't in good conscience say I'm a member. On the other had, I was raised Mormon and my family goes back with the Mormons to the 1830s when the LDS church was founded (technically The Church of Jesus Christ, the original name) so to some degree it's a inseparable part of my identity. I try to split the difference in my life, but it gets messy sometimes.
I think abuse of any substance will have negative effects. But the casual use of one substance is clearly far more safer on the body and society than the other.
There is no regard for harm reduction logic in conservative politics that isn’t already part of the conservative platform. Guns? Sure, “if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns”. Drugs? Only the ones that are already legal. Safe injection sites? Enabling addicts. Abortion? Baby murder. Sex work? Sin and depravity. Acknowledging racism? Racist itself! Holding police accountable in any way? Riots and looting! Masks? I will literally make up fake science because real science is tyranny! My goodness.
Edit: of course there’s room for all of these in big-L Libertarian politics, but... the party has less significant sway in any red state I’m aware of (they’ve had more success in blue NM?), and at the membership level the party seems to be more successful in funneling angry white dudes into the alt right than convincing conservatives to actually care about personal liberties when those liberties might be shared by everyone and help reduce power disparities.
No one in the US is free to do whatever they want with cannabis.
Drugs challenge free will through addiction as well as influence on behavior ("under the influence").
Marijuana just got swept up in that whole idea, and ended up polarizing like everything else.
But even the most hardcore libertarian would hesitate to say it should be legal for 14 year olds to get meth or fentanyl at the corner store.
There's a big difference between illegal and "war on drugs"-illegal, though. Most small-government types would probably agree once you point out the kind of government apparatus that's built up around the war on drugs.
That said 10 brownies for $30 sounds like a good deal to me.
For what it's worth, automatic trimmers have come a long ways in recent years. A coworker at my previous job had purchased one for personal use, he had a ACMPR license for up to 35 plants. He said where it used to take two or three hours to trim a single plant, he can knock 7 or 8 off in the same time. Of course it doesn't come anywhere near the quality of a hand-trim, but you can get 90% there with almost no effort. To the older generation like him, it's still orders of magnitude better than whatever you could get just 10-15 years ago.
And yes, 10 brownies for $30 is a reasonably good price, even here in Ontario. Assuming they contain a reasonable dosage of THC (say 50mg), anyways.
[0]: Personally I use the General Hydroponics 3-part; two 1L bottles of "Bloom" and one bottle of each "Gro" and "Micro" is roughly $90 CAD. Using just those three nutrients and some pH adjusters I've been able to harvest roughly 25 lbs across 14 plants over the past 4 years. It's likely I will need another bottle of the bloom and micro components before starting another grow, but the Gro bottle should last another two or cycles easily.
But having said that, I regularly spend $2-$3 on a single chocolate chip cookie at cafes. Those aren't even psychoactive.
Do you mean at Starbucks - or more like a CBD-only hash-brownie?
Though being in California, those individual cookies are often "vegan" and/or "organic" to try justify the high price.
But it's just a sweet like you'd give a child, nothing interesting.
Politicians see a chance to increase tax income for the government, thereby giving them an increased chance of increasing their influence by being able to direct the increased tax income, and it will come from a politically unpopular and weaker class of people, so that's a no brainer.
There's no good reason for you, but there's a great reason for them. Taxes. Colorado has collected $1 billion on taxes over $6.5 billion marijuana sales.
But on the other hand, home stilling is illegal too and you can buy everything you need to distill alcohol at home on Amazon.
If we had the chance to disallow tobacco use before it was available, don't you think we should do it? The deaths, medical costs, etc. make it not worth it.
Marijuana has been shown to have negative effects on the brain, I think this is a price that's not worth paying.
Even if we all agreed "marijuana for recreation is bad" (which it is not so clear on - it seems likely less bad than tobacco or alcohol),
Then you still can not want it criminalized. This is because when something is not criminalized you don't: -force only criminals to sell it -provide criminals funding by allowing them to sell it -prevent users from getting help -prevent criminals from solving disputes through the State, instead they have to enforce their own violence -people should be free to do things in general that don't directly harm others (e.g. pot on the couch is ok, while driving not) -jailing people to enforce the criminalization
The war on drugs is directly responsible for huge amounts of global violence (e.g. mexico) andenormous incarceration rates in the US (about 10x our peers). The downsides are huge, the upsides are harder to quantify.
Besides, you'd achieve a lot more boost to public health if you banned booze and processed sugar than you ever would for pot