Weed should be legal

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Yes

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Weed is becoming more and more accepted around the world, something that’s been made clear by the fact that its legalization is increasingly being considered across many countries and states. One of the advantages of legalizing marijuana is that it could reduce the amount of criminal activity around the drug, as it eliminates the need for dealers to illegally distribute the substance in back alleys.
My dealer is a real sweetheart i'd love for him to have his own shop.
Legalizing weed would also end the unnecessary and cruel police crackdown on dealers and consumers.
Government-regulated and tested marijuana could be safer for the consumer compared to what is available on the street today.

Finally, marijuana has been proven to treat certain medical conditions, such as chronic pain, reducing inflammation, and easing the symptoms of diseases like Anxiety, AIDS and cancer. Legalizing pot would make it much easier for anyone needing relief from such conditions to access the drug. All in all, the potential health, social, and financial benefits of legalizing weed seem to outweigh any potential risks.

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2cool4school · 46-50, F

Yeah because it’s only helped the black market surge to new levels and become an even greater revenue stream for the Chinese organized crime in places like California where Mexican money laundering and Chinese products have been joined in a ménagetois of maniacal miscreants to synergistically create a problem that is far more damaging than the sum of its parts.
Decriminalizing is more accurate and most beneficial. Legalizing cannabis has not been a good thing for most of the US states and South American countries like Uruguay to name just a few.

Gloomy · F

@2cool4school Only decriminalizing it doesn't solve the problem of safety though which can only be addressed by making it legal.

2cool4school · 46-50, F

@Gloomy I’m not sure if I follow your logic on that. Could you please explain to me how you came about that ideation ?? I genuinely want to know because I genuinely stated my opinion based on my experiences and my research and I believe cannabis has a lot of value to the population.

Gloomy · F

@2cool4school If drug possession and personal use are only decriminalised, it is still illegal to possess and use drugs but there would be no penalties. Selling and manufacturing drugs would in this case still carry criminal penalties.

Also when it comes to the production of food, drugs, etc... there should be heavy government control and regulations to make sure the products meet standards and are not altered to make production cheaper so that private companies can make more money.

2cool4school · 46-50, F

@Gloomy I disagree with you on the fact that decriminalization can include the manufacture or growing of possession of and use of cannabis for example. I can look up specific examples though I don’t have any specifics off the top of my head.

2cool4school · 46-50, F

@Gloomy as for the second part of your point. Those same “government standards and regulations can be introduced by a government to benefit the government and only the government and completely disregard and screw over for lack of a better term the end user. Uruguay is a perfect example of this. The quality and strength of the legal cannabis is laughably inferior to what an average home grow operator is capable of producing but is not allowed to by law. So the system is set up to make things great for the government and sh*tty for the consumer. California and Colorado are having similar issues and problems with the “seed to sale” clause in the legal cannabis industry as well. Independent Growers are not able to compete with the prices and end up with product that must be destroyed by law or can’t even make enough money from the sale to an outlet/dispensary that it’s just forcing people out of business. Which I believe was possibly set up to weed out (pun intended) the mom and pop growers and make room for the corporation’s to thrive in what is possibly going to be the 2.0 version of the legal cannabis industry. The corporations are quite possibly learning what they should do by watching the original growers crash and burn in a sense that it’s just like a beta testing with the lives and livelihood of people who have been growing cannabis for decades and did what they were told they should would have to do to remain a legal grow source. It’s a very shady business that’s only boosted the black market cannabis industry it was supposed to be surpassing and rendering obsolete. Instead the people who followed the rules are becoming obsolete and it’s all because of the way that the states legalized cannabis. It’s a broken system that has begun to generate a lot of black market money for what are essentially terrorist organizations such as Mexican cartels and foreign adversaries like China both countries have found a way to team up and end up with the profits while the average American cannabis consumers and cannabis business owners both growers and dispensary owners are now in a losing battle to remain solvent. This is something that I have quite a bit of first hand experience with and over 2.5 decades of knowledge accumulated from both the former black market structure and the legal cannabis industry as well as the emerging black market and illegal cannabis industry. I always believed that decriminalizing was actually a better path and it’s sad to see how that may be factually correct. It’s also disappointing to see how so many hands are tied and so many options for alternatives are not available and off the table.