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Re:California ballot measure to decriminalize adult use of h... by SilasX on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @07:53PM (#15128618)
I wish the Overton Window was more open to some kind of middle ground: "this isn't legal in general, but we have these tightly monitored, zero-advertising, well-trained centers where you can use the drugs". Apparently our only options are "legal for all adults" or "legal for no one".
Re:California ballot measure to decriminalize adult use of h... by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @08:04PM (#15128666)
It's not an Overton Window problem so much as a federal law problem; state decriminalization is easy and low legal risk even when it conflocts with federal law, state tight regulation is more problematic, since compliance produces evidence for federal criminal prosecution. With marijuana, there has been federal tolerance of state liberalization which somewhat mitigates that concern, but that seems less likely with mushrooms.

The Overton Window encourages factions to push extreme positions to move the middle ground of what is acceptable, but still it is the middle ground that is acceptable, not extreme positions with an excluded middle.