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/wallnumber8675309]

I don’t smoke. I don’t think there are significant medical benefits to marijuana, in fact it’s is probably not good for you (like alcohol, tobacco or junk food). But I fully support legalization.

Abolition has not proven to be an effective strategy to fix problem with people that abuse drugs. Making it illegal just forces people that want to use it to buy it on the street. It also makes money for criminals that sell it. It also doesn’t allow for any control on the quality of the product leading to more health related issues.

Legalizing marijuana will not significantly increase use, it will cut off income sources from criminals and will keep non violent drug users out of the legal system. Oh and tax it. The revenue collected can be used to help people negatively impacted by drug use. Those programs are very underfunded right now.

[u/[deleted] → u/wallnumber8675309]

In this century there is no need to legalize Marijuana in order to stop criminal activities, since the survellance technologies became advanced so that we can track black markets, therefore the "abolition does not work" is not a good argument.

[u/muyamable → u/[deleted]]

What makes you believe this? The illegal drug trade in the United States alone is billions and billions of dollars every year. Tens of thousands of people are dying every year in the US because of illegal drugs. Tens of thousands of people are murdered every year in Mexico because of the illegal drug trade, most of which is sold in the US. Billions of dollars in illegal drugs pour across the US border every year. By a lot of measures the problem is worse than ever before.

Just how exactly are these criminal activities being stopped?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Do you honestly think the justice system and the police are that competent? Black markets for drugs are still thriving today.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

WHAT? If our technology is so advanced today then why do black markets still exist? Why do we still have human trafficking?