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?

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    91·
    14 hours ago

    I’m happy with legalization and would do it again.

    • the health impact is similar enough to alcohol and cigarettes so we should treat them similarly
    • even before I agreed with legalization, the legal consequences seemed cruel and unusual, way out of proportion
    • law enforcement needs to focus on things with more impact on our safety
    • for-profit prisons? wtf
    • I don’t know about medical benefits but how was pit so illegal that we could never even investigate such claims?
    • smoking is a serious health hazard but now it’s easier to get marijuana products that do t involve smoking

    The one thing I’d do differently is stricter regulations against secondhand smoke. Now that cigarettes have seriously declined, it’s easier to appreciate just how much they stink. But we’ve backslid: smoking pot stinks worse, and has a lot of the same second hand smoke hazard.

    • renrenPDX@lemmy.world
      71·
      13 hours ago

      Disagree on first and last point. MJ is NOT comparable to cigarettes. At all. This is coming from someone who has partaked in both. Both produce smoke but are not equal.

      Cigarettes are WAY worse for your chest, and far more addictive, and easier to access/cheaper.