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Why the fuck is alcohol legal and and weed isn’t? Alcohol is way worse
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Anonymous 39w

Im studying to get a degree criminal psychology and im a bit of a pothead myself lol. A lot of the stigma stems from racism in the early 20th century. It became associated with immigrants and minorities so it kind of snowballed from there. The criminalization of it basically reinforced those ideas so it became a cycle. Stigma as a whole is a very interesting concept in terms of sociology and psychology, you should look into it.

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Anonymous 39w

I know right??? It makes no sense. Second hand alcohol exposure puts you at risk of literal physical violence

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Anonymous 39w

No one should be going to jail for weed, or have a record for that matter. But I’m sick of stoners saying it’s harmless. It absolutely destroys your personality, emotional attachments, and cognition. You can deny it until you can’t.

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Anonymous 39w

because alcohol harms you snd makes more money while weed can be used medically and save people more money. the government hates us and wants our money

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Anonymous 39w

Bc the world is stupid af and they like making random laws

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Anonymous 39w

Historically it’s due to anti Hispanic rhetoric post-prohibition

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Anonymous 39w

Or how about realizing both of them are bad addictions, and that if you absolutely must have the substance to abuse there’s a time and place and that’s away from the public and others.

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Anonymous 39w

Facts but i feel like its because the government can control alcohol. You cant regulate weed tbh

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Anonymous 39w

Weed is legal in my state 😇

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Anonymous 39w

The last time the country tried to make alcohol illegal the country erupted, not just a handful of people. Additionally that smells terribly, whereas alcohol has a longer line of history.

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Anonymous 39w

Exactly and why are shrooms so stigmatized

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Anonymous 39w

weed is legal…

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Anonymous 39w

It’s literally just because alcohol is pretty much a cultural universal, so outlawing it is impossible, whereas weed has an association with people the American government does not like (Black people and the anti-war left in the 1960s) and isn’t used by literally everyone so it was easier to ban for a long time

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Anonymous 39w

Fr alcohol is sm worse

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Anonymous 39w

It’s called the “alcohol lobby” ever wondered how shitty things became the way they are in government? There’s a super pac for that.

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Anonymous 39w

racism

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Anonymous 39w

Racism

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Anonymous 39w

Prohibition didn’t work, and the hemp industry threatened the profits of the timber industry so their executives lobbied congress to criminalize weed and pushed public narratives claiming weed made people (specifically African Americans) violent.

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Anonymous 39w

The smell of weed, and cigs, give me migraines. If I had to smell that shit all the time I’d end it💀

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 39w

I smoke weed in my own place. In my car. In my car park

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Anonymous 39w

Like I said. I do it in my own car. In my parking space.

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Anonymous 39w

I have every right to smoke weed as another person who drinks alcohol

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Anonymous 39w

BOTH should be illegal. Neither of them are better than the other.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 39w

Although cannabis is good for pain, people dealing with mental health, and chronic illness’s

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Anonymous 39w

Then don’t smoke it lmao why do you care so much if other people like to

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Anonymous 39w

Weed makes me paranoid so I just don’t hang out around weed idc if other people wanna smoke it by themselves

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Anonymous 39w

Broski I’m not getting high from someone else’s clothes and I have the lowest tolerance on earth

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Anonymous 39w

There’s reasons it’s illegal but people want to defend it bc they love the high, the same way alcohol used to be illegal but people wanted the drug so bad they got it and now look at us.

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Anonymous 39w

Idk why you’re so incensed about the idea of someone drinking or smoking. Becoming an adult means that you get to self-regulate. You get to decide what risks you wanna take and self-moderate. People make different decisions, and you don’t have the moral high ground just because you decide to abstain from everything.

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Anonymous 39w

Everything that’s bad for you can’t be illegal because we’re not 4 years old and the government isn’t our mommy

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Anonymous 39w

It’ll transfer over lmaooooooo 😭 brotha thinks the smell will seep into your skin through osmosis. If you’re in a car specifically trying to hotbox, yeah. But no, someone does not get high from smelling it on somebody’s clothes lmfao .

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Anonymous 39w

You could say that about steak and fries. Some people have addictions. Those people need help and empathy. Laws aren’t going to fix the root of the problem. The trauma and addiction is the issue, not the substance itself.

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Anonymous 39w

not everyone who recreationally uses drugs is addicted. it’s just fun. as long as you’re not being a dick about where you’re smoking or letting yourself get into a state that you hurt someone, who cares.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 39w

so the question was why is one illegal and the other isn’t

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 39w

Holy shit, people use RECREATIONAL drugs because it’s FUN?! Who would thought…

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Anonymous replying to -> #15 39w

This needs to have so many more upvotes that’s straight facts

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Anonymous replying to -> #20 39w

Depends on the person i myself havent lost anything from daily motivation to personally but i do see wym as for some ppl

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Anonymous replying to -> #15 39w

As someone who was pursuing her LCDC license, this guy is correct and I also learned about this

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Anonymous replying to -> #24 39w

Not federally my guy, it’s state by state

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Anonymous replying to -> #15 39w

Alcohol has its place in American history as commonplace. Weed doesn’t. Not saying that’s right or wrong, but just puts it into perspective. Give it a few generations

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Anonymous replying to -> #20 39w

Yeah, I don’t think it’s harmless, but if you were to ask which was MORE harmful, alcohol or weed, the answer is always gonna be alcohol.

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Anonymous replying to -> #20 39w

Its harmfulness really depends on how you’re using it. I have an edible like once a month and have had no change in personality or relationships or cognition. you can abuse anything to the point of serious harm.

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Anonymous replying to -> #26 39w

My parents have smoked for at least 40 yrs and took me to legalizing protests as a baby sooo… wait for the boomers to die off (and the politicians who are scared it’s gonna hurt their money making alcohol) got it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #31 39w

Cigs i can agree on but they r legal so i don’t see why weed isn’t plus cigs can cause cancer alot more

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Anonymous replying to -> #38 39w

That’s true too here in Wisconsin the bars are so powerful they keep weed from being legalized and they also stop alcohol delivery from being legal on doordash and shit all because it increases the likelihood of people drinking at bars. Alcohol isn’t even legal to purchase in stores during prime bar/club hours

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Anonymous replying to -> #17 38w

it’s illegal in my state without a med card 💔💔

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Anonymous replying to -> #13 38w

because the government is fucking stupid and it should have been the other way around

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Anonymous replying to -> #13 38w

alcohol is literally worse than weed in my opinion

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Anonymous replying to -> #37 38w

It’s not even really an opinion, you can drink so much in one sitting that you fucking die, it would be physically impossible to smoke enough weed to get the lethal dose of THC

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