If the argument is that marijuana is bad for health and it should be illegal, then with the same logic, alcohol should be illegal because it’s also bad for health.
Agree - plus tobacco.
If marijuana is banned due to harm, then plenty of other substances should be banned. And vice versa.
So downvoted because popular opinion? 😉
I’m glad you agree, but yea I guess I shouldn’t expect this to be an unpopular opinion on Lemmy, the niche small unpopular website on the internet.
I think most people, even outside Lemmy, are in favor of legalization. There’s just a lot of old people in charge of the laws who are against it because of years of “Reefer Madness” propaganda crap.
Like, Ohio had a ballot initiative not long ago to legalize it recreationally and, after it passed, their legislature tried to knee-cap it (unsuccessfully, I believe).
That’s fair. What makes this unpopular for me is that the solution to the ‘bad for health’ argument should be decriminalization and social health services, not criminalization.
Downvoting because I completely agree.
I’m glad that the moderator of an extremely liberal niche community on an unpopular website agrees.
Oh, I don’t see it as a political thing. My mom was an alcoholic. That shit wrecks families and communities.
I’m for making both illegal
You’re making two different arguments here. There are plenty of reasons for why people are against Marijuana besides health.
You know what they mean. If a reason to ban marijuana is due to health concerns, then it’s only consistent to be against alcohol for the same reason.
If you’re against marijuana for other reasons, then consistency still matters, but doesn’t apply for alcohol maybe.
“Health concerns” is too broad of a term IMO. The health effects of Marijuana versus alcohol are completely different. What might be an important issue for one person could be irrelevant to another.
I am? Alcohol does way more damage. I greatly enjoy now being somewhere where alcohol is not the normal. A day or night out is not just drinking plus something.
As for smoking, vaping, whatever stop that shit too. I wish it was legal so that everytime your stank wafts over me, I can just spray you with vomit powder. Because basically it’s the same thing. You want to stink yourself up, fine. You want to do it in public, or so it gets in my house, etc then I get to stink you up with something you find repulsive as well.
There’s no inconsistency at all when you recognize that it’s really about racism
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