Should Weed be Legalized Recreationally

[Rota2001]

I strongly believe weed should be legalized for recreational use all around the globe. While authoritarian people are against weed because of its effects on employment and the average intelligence, these are both false. The only reason why it has effects on employment is because workers are caught smoking and being fired. If it was legalized, then this wouldn't happen and employment rates for that group of people would go back up.

[Wahlid]

Troll logic at its finest. I agree with your point that legalizing weed doesn't mean everyone's going to start 420ing though.

[Cetacea]

Cannabis should be regulated for recreational use in exactly the same way as alcohol in your respective country

It is certainly safer to use than alcohol or tobacco

[Mystic Warriors]

There is nothing wrong with weed, so yes. No reason why it should be illegal while tobacco and alcohol arent.

[Chan Island]

Yes.

You'll need a bit more in that first post though mate.

[Major-Tom]

Yes, yes and yes. Though, I certainly have a bias.

[The Grims]

There is nothing wrong with weed, so yes. No reason why it should be illegal while tobacco and alcohol arent.

Following that reasoning, LSD/acid should be legal as well

[Dark Socialism]

There is nothing wrong with weed, so yes. No reason why it should be illegal while tobacco and alcohol arent.

Following that reasoning, LSD/acid should be legal as well

It should, same with DMT

[-Ocelot-]

Absolutely. Nobody has died from weed. And yet most countries ban it while allowing alcohol and cigarettes, which kill or cripple millions of people every year. Banning weed clearly doesn't work either.

There is nothing wrong with weed, so yes. No reason why it should be illegal while tobacco and alcohol arent.

Following that reasoning, LSD/acid should be legal as well

Shouldn't it? Isn't LSD both non-toxic and non-addictive?

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Everything should be legalized, at least on the possession side. I'm not saying I'd be fine with boxes of fentanyl being sold at Walmart, but there should be no criminal penalties for personal use or personal possession of a drug. Weed should be totally legally from all sides though. So should psychedelics, but they should only be sold in pure, controlled doses to adults.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

It should be legalised, but not recreationally. Legislation is a serious business, and it should be legalised professionally. No beach balls on the floor of parliament.

[Caracasus]

I do think cannabis and several other recreational drugs should be legal and I broadly support decriminalizing possession for personal use for all drugs.

However there's a concern that people see 'less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco' as harmless. Cannabis isn't harmless, it is a habit forming substance that can lead to problems for those who use it regularly. By all means legalise it, but let's be clear here; less harmful than alcohol and tobacco is a very low bar.

[Sicaris]

As long as it’s properly regulated there’s no reason for Marijuana to not be legal.

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As long as it’s properly regulated there’s no reason for Marijuana to not be legal.

I agree, you can't have irresponsible people selling shake as if it's just as good as buds.

[Aclion]

Cannabis isn't harmless, it is a habit forming substance that can lead to problems for those who use it regularly.

That's true of everything though, even NS.

[The Foxes Swamp]

“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”
Carl Sagan

[Cetacea]

“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”
Carl Sagan

well if the Prophet Sagan has spoken and Heirarch deGrasse-Tyson agrees, then Science must be on our side!!!

[-Ocelot-]

“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”
Carl Sagan

well if the Prophet Sagan has spoken and Heirarch deGrasse-Tyson agrees, then Science must be on our side!!!

Nobody said that.

[Mystic Warriors]

There is nothing wrong with weed, so yes. No reason why it should be illegal while tobacco and alcohol arent.

Following that reasoning, LSD/acid should be legal as well

Those aren't even close. Weed is rather harmless, those are not.

[Trumptonium1]

No, users are more often than not societal failures. Tobacco not really, alcohol highly varied.

No benefit from doing so.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

No, users are more often than not societal failures. Tobacco not really, alcohol highly varied.

No benefit from doing so.

Apart from

1) Reducing a criminal market
2) Creating jobs through a new legal market
3) Taxing the crap out of a new legal market
4) Making sure less people needlessly disappear into expensive prison

Legalising weed is such a no-brainer.

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No, users are more often than not societal failures. Tobacco not really, alcohol highly varied.

Have any sources to back this up?

Also, I really don't care if you perceive a benefit to drugs being legal or not - it's a question of whether an individual owns their own body, or if the state owns it. As far as I'm concerned, I am sovereign over my body and can put whatever chemical I want inside it, that is not an act which brings harm to another person. So when the state claims ownership over my body by telling me what I can't do with, I deny the legitimacy of such laws and live as I wish to.

[LiberNovusAmericae]

I'm for legalizing almost all drugs, so yes, I do think weed should be completely legal.

[Caracasus]

Cannabis isn't harmless, it is a habit forming substance that can lead to problems for those who use it regularly.

That's true of everything though, even NS.

Oh yeah no doubt. It is just there seems to be a bit of a trend among some avocates of legalization to act as if it is harmless, which it isn't. Like anything else, moderation I think is key.

[-Ocelot-]

I'm for legalizing almost all drugs, so yes, I do think weed should be completely legal.

All drugs? Even heroin?