Question for those of you living in a country where marijuana is legal. What are the positive sides, what are the negatives?

If you could go back in time, would you vote for legalising again? Does it affect the country’s illegal drug business , more/less?

  • erin (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    I feel like you have issues with the way capitalism takes advantage of people’s vices and you blamed half of it on the vices. If it wasn’t exploited, and drugs weren’t criminalized, with normal and healthy social standards taught instead of total abstinence creating an attractive taboo, none of that would be an issue.

    • ILoveUnions@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Except, there’d still be issues, because addiction creates issues. A society where drugs are allowed is not one free from issues. They’ll still ruin lives. They’ll still destroy families, and hurt children. Education helps, but it does not eliminate the problem