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How about the cages we put people in for having a certain plant in their glove compartments? No comparisons to Nazi-ism needed for that level of barbarism

grkvlt 8y ago
The whole 'But marijuana is a PLANT, it's part of NATURE, man!' argument is specious. Just because it's a plant doesn't mean it's all great and should be legal. There are plenty of poisonous plants, which if you make preparations based on them by purifying or extracting essential oils, you would quite rightly be locked up for possession.
- iamdave 8y ago
  There are plenty of poisonous plants. This is not one of them, and that's a poor argument to make against the mounting evidence that people are finding valid medical and therapeutic relief from cannabis, and it's an even worse argument in the face of how cannabis has been historically used to paint early 20th century negroes as unhinged savages that terrorize and victimize white communities from being "addicted" to the devils lettuce. See also: "reefer madness" THAT is my issue with that topic. Not just that it's a plant but the very way you've argued against it and the wholesale ignoring of how that prohibition was used to disenfranchise and disempower feeding into Ameria's current incarceration obsession because of a plant. Alas we're straying from the central of the thread right now.
  - grkvlt 8y ago
    FYI, you misunderstand my point. I have no issue with cannabis or cannabis usage, and absolutely agree that the way the 'war on drugs' has been prosecuted is wrong. But this has nothing to do with the fact that cannabis is a plant. The same things would be true if it was an entirely artificial substance, manufactured in a lab, or if it was some kind of animal extract. Why should its plant-based origin have any bearing on anything?

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How about the cages we put people in for having a certain plant in their glove compartments? No comparisons to Nazi-ism needed for that level of barbarism

by iamdave 8y ago

grkvlt 8y ago
The whole 'But marijuana is a PLANT, it's part of NATURE, man!' argument is specious. Just because it's a plant doesn't mean it's all great and should be legal. There are plenty of poisonous plants, which if you make preparations based on them by purifying or extracting essential oils, you would quite rightly be locked up for possession.
- iamdave 8y ago
  There are plenty of poisonous plants. This is not one of them, and that's a poor argument to make against the mounting evidence that people are finding valid medical and therapeutic relief from cannabis, and it's an even worse argument in the face of how cannabis has been historically used to paint early 20th century negroes as unhinged savages that terrorize and victimize white communities from being "addicted" to the devils lettuce. See also: "reefer madness" THAT is my issue with that topic. Not just that it's a plant but the very way you've argued against it and the wholesale ignoring of how that prohibition was used to disenfranchise and disempower feeding into Ameria's current incarceration obsession because of a plant. Alas we're straying from the central of the thread right now.
  - grkvlt 8y ago
    FYI, you misunderstand my point. I have no issue with cannabis or cannabis usage, and absolutely agree that the way the 'war on drugs' has been prosecuted is wrong. But this has nothing to do with the fact that cannabis is a plant. The same things would be true if it was an entirely artificial substance, manufactured in a lab, or if it was some kind of animal extract. Why should its plant-based origin have any bearing on anything?