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People will get defensive and kneejerk some vague response about how it doesn't affect _them_ that way (science!), but I agree 100% with you. It's a drug and it feels like it's being pushed on us these days by states and corporations.

[gnulinux]

Are caffeine and alcohol also pushed by corporations? Alcohol is many many orders of magnitude more destructive and toxic than THC, do we really want to go back to prohibition days? Illegalized drugs do not work. Period. The solution to all drug problems is legalizing it. Yes, including crystal meth and heroin. The absolute worst a government can do for substance abuse is to ban addictive, toxic drugs, which makes them so much more destructive. The opposite is shown to work: https://substanceabusepolicy.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...

[misja111]

> The solution to all drug problems is legalizing it. Yes, including crystal meth and heroin

There have been a few cases in the past were heroin use was allowed, or at least not actively prosecuted. They were absolute disasters. E.g. Zurich, 1986-1922: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8044118/

[worksonmine]

Cool! I never knew heroin helped them invent the time-machine. Why isn't this more known?

[djcannabiz]

the stranglehold big-clock has on the press and government...

[sjsdaiuasgdia]

Can you elaborate on why you feel like it's being pushed on you?

I've visited several US jurisdictions where it's legal. While it's still illegal in my area, I'm adjacent to fully legal and medically allowed areas. The only time I've felt any pressure was visiting Las Vegas, where every cab/uber/etc driver volunteered a recommendation for a pot store.

I found the recommendations useful for knowing which stores are overpriced.

[ashwagary]

>it feels like it's being pushed on us these days by states and corporations.

We can say the same for every popular consumer product.

I personally prefer people choosing what they consume over criminalizing the ?billions? of people that find it harmless.