MTL_t3k t1_iu4x2ij wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:01 PM

More garbage research to support cannabis legalisation.

Who cares what uninformed children think or feel about something. If a poll of five year olds finds that most think or feel that Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy are real, that does not make it so.

Cannabis does impair cognitive development, and legalising it leads to increased use among young people. That is not hypothetical; that is what actually happened when Québec legalised and started selling it at government-regulated dispensaries (SQDC) in 2018. Teens were lining up around the block. The government was forced to undertake a bizarre public education campaign warning the same young people it was selling cannabis to about the risk of impaired cognitive development; it eventualy increased the age limit to purchase cannabis from 18 to 21, with little scientific evidence that doing so would mitigate potential harm (cognitive development continues beyond age 21).

Decriminalation is one thing, where most people agree that no one should have a criminal record for simple possession, and very few actually do. Legalisation is another matter. The government getting into the business of providing products or services with known detrimental effects, whether gambling, alcohol or cannabis, while simultaneously promoting campaigns to limit the harm from these same products and services, is the height of hypocrisy.

LowKeyRebelx t1_iu9ta3o wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:54 PM

We care because it debunks another brain dead talking point we heard before legalization. And that might be true in Quebec, but in the usa there has been NO INCREASE in teen use anywhere were marijuana has been legalized. Decriminalization is like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound. No, we as a society want this common plant regulated. That means legal, with warning labels, thc content listed, store clerks checking ID, jobs, tax revenue, and security. Not "prohibition lite". Which is almost as bad as prohibition itself. Time to remove that moronic policy from our lawbooks.

MTL_t3k t1_iub1toc wrote on October 29, 2022 at 11:20 PM

Usually refrain from responding to obnoxious idiots, but just in case anyone who does not know better comes across this nonsense:

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Cannabis Use Following Legalization in US States With Medical Cannabis Laws
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2784528

"Findings
In this cross-sectional study analyzing repeated yearly surveys of US adults conducted from 2008 to 2017, living in a state after enactment of recreational cannabis laws was associated with increases in the odds of cannabis use..."

Did Prohibition Really Work? Alcohol Prohibition as a Public Health Innovation
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2005.065409?url_ver=Z39.88-2003

"Death rates from cirrhosis and alcoholism, alcoholic psychosis hospital admissions, and drunkenness arrests all declined steeply during the latter years of the 1910s, when both the cultural and the legal climate were increasingly inhospitable to drink, and in the early years after National Prohibition went into effect."

So basically everything pothead idiot just wrote is simply not true. Legalisation of cannabis has led to increased use, and prohibition worked remarkably well in terms of public health outcomes.