Should we be able to use cannabis on our time off?

The entire point of this thread is on should a drug be more accessible.

 

No, I did not change anything. Drug usage has been responsible for killing many kids. This again is not debatable. By increasing the ease at which people can do drugs then more kids will die. period, full stop. I do not care about people doing drugs if that was as far as it goes but humans do not have the ability in mass to control it to just impacting themselves so we have to stop them from causing major damage all over the country like they have done in once great cities like Seattle.

 

Maybe not to someone that has their mind closed, but to everyone else it IS debatable. There is a fair bit of evidence that says that marijuana use, and lets not lump all drug usage with the topic at hand, is only killing kids because it's illegal. I.E. gangs and the like.

After all, you don't see gang members killing each other over milk....

 

I see gang kids killing each other over shoes, jackets, pocket knives, small amounts of cash, etc. I would not be at all surprised if some kid died over milk money for lunch.

As far as Marijuana only killing kids because it is illegal is just silly. Kids have died on Marijuana in countless ways but just to mention one fast growing method is from edibles. This will only increase as we make them legal in more places. Again, not wanting to beat a dead horse but humans have proven time and time again that many of us lack the ability to self control and limit when and how we use things so we tend to excess and that is bad.

 

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I just saw this post in another thread, we cannot trust people to not use their dang phone to play while driving a large truck at a high rate of speed and yet we still have people that want to encourage drug usage by making it more and more legal. Not a good idea. We should make the punishment much harsher, not lessen things.

 

Legalization makes it more accessible. And it's only a matter of time until it's 100% rollout. DC, Colorado and the Canadian province of Alberta now have legal inroads to the availability of Psilocybin Mushrooms, touted as recent research on its psychological benefits to mental health. CA has legal framework in place and MA is following suite.

When scientific evidence and advancements in technology substantiate the endeavouring into avenues that benefit the human beings well being, are you going to be the one that stands on archaic and primitive grounds because your afraid of advancements? Of social changes?

This thread touches upon the subject of why a dying profession is excluded from the acceptable norms of society.

 

And the infamous '50s movie Reefer Madness is your evidence, I suspect?

 

That's like saying this will happen to all the truck drivers if marijuana's off duty use is no longer subjected to discrimination
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It’s not when but IF!
You also seem to not understand or accept that our scientific community has been very wrong and misleading on other things over the years. In an other post I stated that I refused to accept some prescriptions that were written by my doctor because the side effects listed were numerous and some downright scary. Those prescriptions were all approved and accepted by the scientific community, given to the public by unquestioning doctors and then went on to have much more adverse effects than the scientific community ever thought they would. Thus leading to said drugs being pulled off the market.

So if they start saying it’s ok and then turn around 3, 5 or even 10 years later and say they made a mistake are you going to accept that and give it up? You know adhere to social change as you think it is that makes us not accept it?

The mere fact you mention social change tells me volumes of how superficial and insecure you could be and how easily your beliefs can be manipulated. Don’t know about you but if everyone else were to stick thier hand in a bucket of poo I would still refrain no matter what society however mislead at that point thinks!

 

You seem to ignore the basic fact I point out over and over, Humans have a very poor track record of self control, this is not an American thing or a new thing. This is simply baked into our DNA it seems, with the understanding that humans are often unable to control themselves we should do what we can to limit the stupid actions we often take. The proof is very clear, look at Seattle or Portland and you see what happens when we lower standards and increase bad activity. You are free to choose to use or not use any legally prescribed medication provided by your doctor.

Not at all, the point was that humans often fail to control their own actions. It is an absolute certainty that if we lower the standards the number of problems will go up. We have thousands of years of human history as proof. We require a person to be qualified to drive a semi truck, WHY, we have learned over time that by raising standards you can reduce (not eliminate) some of the negative aspects of an activity, just like by lowering standards the negative aspects go up. If we removed say speed limits, some of us would be able to control our actions and stay safe while others would go ####### crazy and cause accidents like crazy. This is exactly why we need to increase and not decrease the punishment for drugs.