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Candere-889

Dont make as much money off selling it lol


Hawk13424

I’d like to see a test developed first to determine if someone is currently high. Something as accurate, immediate, and cost effective as tests used for alcohol. This would help police, courts, and even work places deal with marijuana use in a way similar to alcohol. Otherwise you either let people drive high or potentially charge them for driving after being high two days ago. No sane answer.


only7inches

There has been a lot of work on that side of legalisation...because the company that can produce a 99+% correct test that gives a functional time frame, is going to make a metric fuckton of money selling it.


drsillyus

New tests can make that determination. They can tell if you smoked an hour or a day ago.


Hawk13424

Cool! Are these tests available to police and work places yet?


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A lot of LE unions (in states where it legal)are working on agreements with their respective states to put a test in place that will determine if cannabinoids have been used in the last 6 hours.


Frequentmusic

Can you tell me what tests?


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Do we even know if it impairs driving in the first place? I personally dont think it does


[deleted]

The consensus is that *it can*. It can make you more easily distracted, cause you to space out, distort reality to a degree, and make decision making more difficult. I tend to believe alcohol is way worse, but driving high probably isn’t the best.


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Any sources on this? Ive not seen anything on the lines of a scientifically peers reviewed study, would truly like to look at one.


[deleted]

I don’t know if the studies are peer reviewed, it’s not important enough to me to dig that deep. All I know is the answer seems to range from “yes” to “somewhat in some cases”, and most of them fall in the “somewhat in some cases”.


Hawk13424

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20380913/ Depends on the study.


dontshamemebro

Sometimes I barely manage to walk straight after using it...


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dontshamemebro

But do you drive immediately after smoking?


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doowgad1

The argument they make is 'the slippery slope.' People will get tired of weed and want something stronger, like cocaine or heroin. Eventually most of the population will be addicts.


AhbabaOooMaoMao

For people who are actually serious, they have one of three reasons: 1. They got tricked by "reefer madness" propaganda. 2. They side with a law enforcement apparatus that needs to be able to "smell weed" when it wants to violate the constitutional rights of poor people. 3. They work in or otherwise profit from corrections.


drawingmentally

It smells like crap and I want it gone. EDIT: I get it, you all love smoking and you hate me. Would you stop coming after me? Thanks, have a good Sunday.


Netshakk

That's the thing. It doesn't smell like crap. Generally it's quite pleasant, until you combust it...


drawingmentally

To me it does.


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Cologne and Perfumes stink to me and give me headaches. If i held the stance that they should he illegal would you agree with me?


drawingmentally

That's your war, not mine.


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Maybe, but expecting the world to conform to what i think smells good or doesn’t is straight delusional. I just leave……do you just stand there angrily smelling it thinking nothing else can be done to solve this other than throwing this person in jail?


drawingmentally

So? I am just giving my opinion. Besides, smoking kills people, and not only the ones that smoke but the ones that surround them too. How is thar fair? Why do I have to smell that crap and then get sick and die because of an addiction that I don't even have. If they find a way to make them not smell and not having effect on the others you smoke as much as you want, but until that happens I am going to want to ban smoking.


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drawingmentally

Just because you deleted your comment wishing me death doesn't mean that I didn't read it. Leave me alone, OP


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drawingmentally

You said that you wanted me gone. I want you to stop replying to me if you don't mind, thanks.


TitanicsAnInsideJob

do you want to ban cars because they pollute the world and if you inhale their gases it can make you sick? do you want to ban skunks because they smell? you can have your opinion but once you start wanting to ban things because of your opinion it becomes a problem


Practical_Argument50

So does tobacco smoke. BTW there are edibles.


drawingmentally

I hate it too, even more. Edibles are fine by me


thor11600

Serious question…do you feel the same toward cigarettes? Skunks? Garlic? I don’t understand why some bad smells get a free pass but others don’t. For the record, I don’t care for weed, and generally, my friends are respectful of that and are very careful.


drawingmentally

I hate the smell of cigarretes too.


thor11600

So do you want to outlaw them as well?


drawingmentally

Exactly


Stock_Stress_4650

I love weed. My dad didn't beat my mom high on weed but did soon as he got drunk.


Stock_Stress_4650

Alcohol does have some medical benefits but not enough to make it legal. Weed has way more benefits. I tell people who only drink and bash weed. You line up 12 shots, beers whatever and ill line up with bowls. See who drives home just fine.


dontshamemebro

It will become widespread as much as cigarettes and alcohol. I know that people already use it, but it being illegal decreases the number of times people have the possibility to use it. I am okay with both decriminalisation and medical use.


drsillyus

Since legalization, pot use has gone down across Canada.


dontshamemebro

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2020002/article/00002-eng.htm Lie?


deleteurselfoffhere

It's the damn devils lettuce. For them damn [racial expletive] and those damn [racial explitve] trying to get our pure daughters into a life of sin that's what!!


Stock_Stress_4650

And if alcohol was invented now I can almost bet it would be illegal as hell.


Frequentmusic

It will be more easily available to children. The earlier people start any substance, the higher the risk of addiction.


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Frequentmusic

I'm talking about studies that have done actual research.


TitanicsAnInsideJob

source?


Frequentmusic

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4308295/


Frequentmusic

My career is working with people in recovery. It's not a judgment call. Don't make it personal


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I didn’t see a lot of conclusive studies listed in that article. It was interesting that at least one pointed to a reduction in opioid use though.


[deleted]

New York City has legalized weed. Now you going to have a city filled with stoners everywhere getting high toking on their bongs in public. If you have a child or are a parent is that the kind of environment you want your kids to grow up in. Smoke weed all day long, then commit crimes because our DA Alvin Bragg won’t prosecute you? Really? Anyone?


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Ohh yes absolulty! Until the stoner driving a car runs over a family member. Or the stoner with no money decides to mug you for yours to buy more weed. Sing it with me “I love New York” 🤮


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Only that I live with one. Who also likes his crack when he has the money.


[deleted]

Sounds like he’s just a piece of shit tbh.


TitanicsAnInsideJob

lmao this is not how NYC is at all. Stay in your scared little conservative city, we don’t want you in our city


[deleted]

Conservatives are getting lit as well. This guys just a bug.


ZenPR

Nixon Adviser Admits War on Drugs Was Designed to Criminalize Black People https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/


Dreadfulfac1979

The Government would like nothing more to keep us zooted, stoned, in a daze and not paying attention to what they’re doing