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Yeah we really just need to demand scientific, evidence-based policy and be fine on this topic.

It's going to be weird being "boomer" / old af ourselves (I'm in my 40s) telling people about the days when it was illegal, the way it'd be boomer af for someone to tell us about Prohibition days.

On the other hand, western society seems to be swinging more authoritarian again, e.g. abortion laws in the US, AfD here in Germany, despite cannabis legalisation efforts in both. So who knows, humanity seems to have infinite ingenuity and appetite for self-inflicted horrors rolling eyes

My view is that legalization is only occurring due to their greed for the sweet sweet tax revenue it brings to the government.

Younger generations are less interested in cannabis and there's growing pushback against it. Younger generations are seeing a rapid conservative swing in general.

The world won't be sunshine and rainbows when boomers are wiped from the earth. There will always be someone hating (thing) and wanting to ban (thing) and it comes in cycles.

Younger Generations that are subjected to increasing conservatism are potential victims to be saved.

Boomers were young once. That's when they voted for the war on drugs at all costs. They may have made some poor decisions but they don't have a monopoly on them. There's no guarantee that the future is progressive.

Young people don't vote. Boomers were still young and just past the "turn on, tune in, and drop out" hippie summer of love when their elders passed the War on Drugs legislation. Now that they're the ones voting and sitting in legislative chambers those laws are being rolled back.

One should regularly examine one's prejudices.

I was thinking more of the Reagan years but you’re right that the boomers didn’t start the war on drugs.

> One should regularly examine one's prejudices.

Yeah that was my point too.

Don’t legalize it because it’s more addictive and more damaging to health than the current perception.

Check out r/leaves

Not saying there are real issues about psychological addiction around weed, but r/leaves is an echo chamber that where people blame every single thing wrong with their life on weed, that's nothing representative at all.

Plus, keeping it illegal does nothing to curb use.

Check out your local AA chapter. This is not a reason against legalization.

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