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by NERD_ALERT 1155 days ago
In most cases I believe states are threatened with penalties or withdrawal of federal funding when they try and disobey federal law. Even with other drug laws like alcohol, states have been threatened with losing funding for roads if they were to lower the legal age to 18. Marijuana is simply too negligible of an issue for the federal government to really do anything about it.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/Politics/story?id=4577105&page...
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celdon25 1155 days ago
> Marijuana is simply too negligible of an issue

It's not that simple and not everyone agrees with the above statement. Harm reduction is not really emphasized with marijuana, yet it's increasingly necessary as concentrations increase. "Everything in moderation" seems to have been forgotten in that case.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9462911/

Orange man took notice, but he's wrong about everything, so carry on.

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/trump-suggests-genetically-e...

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NERD_ALERT 1154 days ago
Yes because blaming mass shootings on marijuana is of course absurd. Why don’t any other countries with the access to the same marijuana have mass shootings?
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celdon25 1154 days ago
Because they don't have a second amendment? The comparison you should be paying attention to however is the rate of mass shootings within the US per year.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/mass-shootings-...

> While many mass shooters had mental-health problems, as the Mother Jones data shows, there is no reason to believe that there has been an increase in mental illness rates in the last several years that could help explain the rise in mass shootings. (In fact, federal research on the prevalence of severe mental illness shows a decrease in recent years.)

You can't rule out these things when you consider that delta-8-thc has only been found in noticeable amounts in marijuana since 2010 or so. That particular compound has been known to cause psychosis, which can cause other long-term cascading mental illness.

As a drug supporter I'm sure you've heard of the concept of a "bad batch"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987131/table/T...

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