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jpreston2005 ,

amid increasing concerns that the lack of a ban on use is promoting drug abuse by young people.

This fucking backwards ass notion of weed as a “gateway drug” needs to die. Their reasoning for calling it that shows their idiocy, in that it’s called that because it’s cheap and harmless, so they think it will lead to people believing other drugs are similar. Imagine branding something as dangerous because it’s (Checks Notes) cheap and harmless.

Although from personal experience, I’d say that weed is a gateway drug of sorts, in that if you’re addicted to something far more dangerous (like alcohol), using weed can act like a “gateway” to sobriety.

krashmo ,

In my experience weed can be a gateway drug when you have to buy it from a drug dealer. As an analogy, lots of people end up buying something other than what they went into Target to buy.

jpreston2005 ,

Whatever it takes to get people to take some shrooms and chill all the way the fuck out

cyberpunk007 ,

And yet alcohol shall not be banned.

What are they thinking?

Facebones ,

If its like the US they get buckoo tax monies they aren’t getting from canna.

sudo ,

Is that supposed to say beaucoup?

nulluser ,

TIL how to spell beaucoup.

Facebones ,

Yeah, well, shut up 🤣

sudo ,

Can do, bucko ;P

CitizenKong ,

And unlike cannabis use (as far as I’m aware), alcoholism is actually a real problem in Japan, because drinking alcohol is not only socially acceptable but downright enforced.

queermunist ,
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They can’t stop people from making bathtub wine.

Maeve ,

It's not entirely harmless, but more harmless than a lot of OTC medicines.

EnderMB ,

I don’t like weed. I’ve tried it throughout my teens, but left it there.

With that said, it’s amazing to me that we’re still having the same conversations around drugs. Decriminalise EVERYTHING! Ensure what is on the market is clean, drive the costs down to remove criminals from the market, and dedicate every police force to protecting those on the bottom rung of the drug ladder.

I read a book from a former officer a while back, where he’d spent two years working on infiltrating a drug network. It was successful, and they not only shut down a major network of drugs, but arrested around 100 people, and removed tons of illegal weapons from the market, and arrested several people in the network known to police for being involved in several murders. They believed that the drug market in the UK during this time had been disrupted “for three hours”. That was all it took for another gang to take over, and apparently it’s those successes that cause a lot of people to leave drug enforcement - after all, what’s the point?

There almost seems to be zero benefit to drug criminalisation, other than “old conservatives hate it”.

Maeve ,

Rich corporations and people profit, everyone else is criminalized for reasons.

IsThisAnAI ,

Just Japan doing Japan things.

Maeve ,

This is to close off profit to anyone but those selected. They know they are going to incarcerate more people, too.

FundMECFSResearch ,

Wasn’t it already illegal. My wife’s cousin served two years for an amount that is so small police wouldn’t even bother to confiscate it in europe.

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