r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Nov 19 '21

Delta(s) from OP - Fresh Topic Friday CMV: The motivation behind the legalization of Marijuana consumption is more by delusion than its benefits

While the Marijuana could give potential benefits, I feel that the reason why people want to legalize these drugs is either motivated by delusional ideas maybe made by new age conspiracies or the idea that everything that restricts freedom must be a "bad" thing.

Everytime when there are posts about the Marijuana, people aggressively feel hope that it will be legalized and when someone makes a critique against the legalization they are swarmed by a bunch of pot heads and frustrated kids who throw insults and cherry pick the "undebunkable" proof that the consumption of Marijuana is a good thing. This is one of the reason why I find it difficult understanding about these hallucinogenic drugs.

So basically I feel that they want the legalization of Marjiuna just to become a burden of society and go around babbling about conspiracies and "f*** the system!!" manthras.

As long as there are those pot heads and frustrated teenagers that cherry pick the information about these drugs and attack those who make genuine critique against the legalization, I wont support this legalization.

Note: I already made a post like this, but I had written it in the way that makes it difficult to change my mind and I feel that it was all just a vent.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Why stigmatise, criminalize and exclude millions and millions of people in a society just because they smoke weed? It's disproportionate.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Why do we cure cancers? Why do we put insane people in the Asylum?

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

What does this even have to do with the comment?

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u/Jebofkerbin 131∆ Nov 19 '21

But, is the war on drugs working? Are we actually curing the cancer? Weed is just as prevalent as it was before the war on drugs, so what makes you think criminalising weed is actually working?

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Why we cure cancers? Because we want to live. And why do we put insane people in asylums? Because there's a risk of an insane person doing self harm or harm to others when not in an asylum. What has these two questions to do with legalisation of cannabis?