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Question for those of you living in a country where marijuana is legal. What are the positive sides, what are the negatives?
If you could go back in time, would you vote for legalising again? Does it affect the country's illegal drug business , more/less?
Yes legalize. It shouldn't have been banned to begin with. It makes more sense to ban alcohol than cannabis if we're just talking from a public safety perspective. It was actually banned because the lumber industry wanted to chop down trees for paper rather than letting hemp take the lead.
That's a new take for me, I've heard it was an aspect of Reagan's war on drugs, it was an obstacle in the Vietnam war, it was amn attack against the black and Jamaican community, was big pharma wanting to clear the way for over the counter pain killers, and that the tobacco companies weren't allowed to grow it so they made sure no one else would.
Thanks for adding to the list lol
It's all of the above. It's always been a useful folk devil when one was needed.
This. The hemp paper stuff was just the final nail in the coffin. It's why Hearst got behind a big anti-cannabis propaganda campaign.