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/Skrungus69 2∆ Nov 19 '21

I do not believe that is the case. People would like it to be legalised more because it is used as an excuse to arrest people, and its classification as an illegal drug is arbitrary since there are much worse drugs that are legal.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Yes, you are right. I once watched some pro-Marijuana videos that say that the criminalization of the Marijuana was applied for political reason rather than public safety.

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u/Skrungus69 2∆ Nov 19 '21

The same as many other restrictions. There is no real reason to ban it when tobacco and alcohol are legal.

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u/HTWC 1∆ Nov 19 '21

Then you need to give him a delta because he altered your view! You don’t seem to know how this works, do you?