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When cannabis was legalized in Canada consumption rates did not go up. In fact, they didn't change much at all: they stayed fairly high (no pun, honest). This
by bregma 7y ago
When cannabis was legalized in Canada consumption rates did not go up. In fact, they didn't change much at all: they stayed fairly high (no pun, honest). This is evidence that making possession of cannabis illegal has far less to do "think of the children" and more to do with either mindless political dogma or else preservation of personal privilege of some elites somewhere (and those two options are not mutually exclusive).
- klingonopera 7y agoYeah, there are many political reasons for criminalizing it. What I found pretty eye-opening in the sense of "Oh wow, that's so obvious, I actually didn't think about that" was that one of the reasons was the American Prohibition in the 30s, and after it was abolished, a bunch of people were about to lose their jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXPOw2unxy0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXPOw2unxy0