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> What society says is legal has an effect on how it is perceived and how frequently it’s accessed by minors, teens, young adults, and adults. Exercising a modi
by avgcorrection 5y ago
> What society says is legal has an effect on how it is perceived and how frequently it’s accessed by minors, teens, young adults, and adults. Exercising a modicum of conservatism in approving all things that we think are safer than alcohol seems appropriate to me.
Considering that we are talking about alcohol, this argument could just as well be used in favor of liberalization.
- sokoloff 5y agoI (and at least one other poster) were talking about things thought comparatively safe to alcohol. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30010236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30010236
- avgcorrection 5y agoSorry. I didn’t read the context correctly. :) In that case the question becomes: has use (and in particular abuse) of substances increased after legalization? Which I will just throw out there since I’m too lazy to research it myself.