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À nation of lotus eaters. What could go wrong?
by tiahura 4y ago
À nation of lotus eaters. What could go wrong?
- kibwen 4y agoAs someone who had an alcoholic stepfather growing up, me and my mother would both ultimately have preferred a lotus eater. Alcohol is already legal (and always will be, as prohibition showed us), so there's no point in criminalizing any drug that's less destructive than alcohol is.
- tiahura 4y ago[flagged]
- jkea 4y agoSo nothing is changing then
- unethical_ban 4y agoI can't tell if you're intentionally trolling or not, but this response is weak.
- jjulius 4y ago18%* of the nation, so not quite the blanket generalization that your judgemental approach would like it to be. Edit: And that number even includes people who have used it "at least once", so the number of regular/habitual users would be lower than that. https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/data-statistics.htm https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/data-statistics.htm
- rayiner 4y agoIt will 100% go up over time. An important (perhaps the most important) part of law is signaling social norms. We don’t make it illegal to steal because we think we can enforce every little instance of shoplifting. We do it so we can clearly signal that it’s “bad.” Those signals keep the normal people on the moral path. When you remove that signal, you’ll normalize it and usage will go up.
- jjulius 4y agoUsage will increase, but it's laughable that people think this will turn us into a nation of locust eaters.
- rayiner 4y agoWhy is it laughable?
- jjulius 4y agoBecause it won't. And even if that's what we become, it will hardly be the only, or the defining, reason. One could also blame being glued to social media, or glued to anything tech, for entertainment, which much of HN's userbase has contributed to in some way. But cannabis itself turning us into a nation of locust eaters? Laughable.