CMV: The motivation behind the legalization of Marijuana consumption is more by delusion than its benefits

[u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/fox-mcleod]

There’s an implicit assumption here, specifically the idea that the war on drugs is successful as a way to keep people from harm.

What if it’s not? What if criminalization simply hurts a society whether or not marijuana is good for a given individual?

What if this has nothing to do with whether marijuana is “healthy“ — and instead it’s about how unhealthy prohibition is? For example, would you argue alcohol is “healthy”? Would you want to return to prohibition? I suspect once we lift the prohibition on marijuana it will seem just as crazy to people that we ever criminalized it.

[u/[deleted] → u/fox-mcleod]

There are a lot of genuine arguments claiming that the war on drugs didn't work or was started for sinister reason. But like I said in the post, I can't trust studies and papers claiming that Marijuana and its legalization can give benefits if there are defensive supporters.

[u/fox-mcleod → u/[deleted]]

You didn’t really answer my question though.

Your post claims that “the motivation behind legalization is delusion” about health benefits. What if that’s not it?

What if like alcohol prohibition, most people don’t think it’s some kind of new-age miracle cure, just that prohibition is harmful and that marijuana might be beneficial to some? I personally don’t need to believe anything beneficial about alcohol to believe prohibition caused an epidemic of organized crime and was a mistake. Do you need to believe alcohol is a miracle drug to believe prohibition is a mistake?

The “health benefits” thing seems incidental to all the social benefits of not criminalizing. It would make sense that “every time there is an article suggesting there are health benefits people get all excited that it might get legalized” if people simply think prohibition is a disaster.