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Sagan, you look high. (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

if someone is driving while high then they should face consequences, but otherwise no crime has been committed. You can't just do pre-crime to justify your views. Something can't be made illegal because someone might later do something different that is illegal.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do you prevent that? Look at alcohol and how many people drive drunk. Marijuana can remain in your system for over 24 hours (even longer possibly) and many people will drive a car/a bike/go out in public. Not to mention that marijuana is often used in sexual assaults (https://adai.uw.edu/pubs/pdf/2017mj_sexualassault.pdf). I think that users deserve treatment and support rather than just off to prison but that shouldn't make us act like the drug is some good benefit to society.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do you prevent that? Look at alcohol and how many people drive drunk

Then ban alcohol. I'd love to see you try and eat shit the same way they did a hundred years ago when you developed your worldview

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Banning alcohol absolutely should be done and has only failed due to half-assed enforcement and lack of social support. We should be supporting addicts with treatment centers and educating on the harms. That is the best way to eliminate it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

good luck with that buddy, your head will be on a spike if you ever actually try something like this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not only that, but banning alcohol made it more dangerous because moonshiners and bootleggers resorted to making more and more potent alcohol for transport discretely. The same thing is happening with opioids now. The rise in fentanyl is precisely because it's more potent so it gets concentrated and easier to smuggle and then dilute/cut at its destination, but then of course people start doing the uncut/pure stuff and die.