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Cannabis is widely used today. Half of US adults have smoked it at one point of their life. 20% regularly smoke it. We are at the point where more people use it

Cannabis is widely used today. Half of US adults have smoked it at one point of their life. 20% regularly smoke it. We are at the point where more people use it than alcohol in the US.

carlmr 1y ago
>We are at the point where more people use it than alcohol in the US. Citation needed on that one.
- kjkjadksj 1y ago
  https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-cannabis-alcohol-drinking-daily-use-b91c2c5957fdb2d48e6616c3baa14c13# https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-cannabis-alcohol-drinki...
  - carlmr 1y ago
    Thank you! Really didn't expect that. I feel like in my personal space the people that partake haven't changed much. Drinking has gone down but I assumed it's an ageing thing.
Krssst 1y ago
From the standpoint of "hard to ban what's used by a large part of the population" this does justify legalization indeed. I don't have strong opinions on this, I was mostly a bit triggered by the parent's comment weird theory that "cannabis was only forbidden because of criminal big pharma". (I assumed "only reason" implied that they thought it was a safe drug without side-effects or risks; all (medical/non-medical) drugs have side-effects and risks so not being 100% safe isn't a reason for banning by itself, but that's a factor in the risk/benefit balance).
- AlecSchueler 1y ago
  > From the standpoint of "hard to ban what's used by a large part of the population" this does justify legalization indeed. I think they meant more that the negative effects don't seem that big because most people are ok even with such a large proportion of people already being experienced with it. > triggered by the parent's comment weird theory that "cannabis was only forbidden because of criminal big pharma". I don't believe it was either but I'm not sure your counter evidence really works. The science that you alluded to about long term effects all significantly post-dates the ban so couldn't have played a role in it.
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Cannabis is widely used today. Half of US adults have smoked it at one point of their life. 20% regularly smoke it. We are at the point where more people use it than alcohol in the US.

carlmr 1y ago

>We are at the point where more people use it than alcohol in the US. Citation needed on that one.

kjkjadksj 1y ago
https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-cannabis-alcohol-drinking-daily-use-b91c2c5957fdb2d48e6616c3baa14c13# https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-cannabis-alcohol-drinki...
- carlmr 1y ago
  Thank you! Really didn't expect that. I feel like in my personal space the people that partake haven't changed much. Drinking has gone down but I assumed it's an ageing thing.

Krssst 1y ago

From the standpoint of "hard to ban what's used by a large part of the population" this does justify legalization indeed. I don't have strong opinions on this, I was mostly a bit triggered by the parent's comment weird theory that "cannabis was only forbidden because of criminal big pharma". (I assumed "only reason" implied that they thought it was a safe drug without side-effects or risks; all (medical/non-medical) drugs have side-effects and risks so not being 100% safe isn't a reason for banning by itself, but that's a factor in the risk/benefit balance).

AlecSchueler 1y ago
> From the standpoint of "hard to ban what's used by a large part of the population" this does justify legalization indeed. I think they meant more that the negative effects don't seem that big because most people are ok even with such a large proportion of people already being experienced with it. > triggered by the parent's comment weird theory that "cannabis was only forbidden because of criminal big pharma". I don't believe it was either but I'm not sure your counter evidence really works. The science that you alluded to about long term effects all significantly post-dates the ban so couldn't have played a role in it.
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