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Re:Seattle vacates hundreds of marijuana charges going back ... by viraptor on Saturday April 28, 2018 @09:15PM (#16950276)
Sorry, this still seems like a completely different situation to me. Depression was already there.

Heavy addiction: you have X problems, you escape via addiction, now you have X+addiction problems, you stop, you still have X+addiction+withdrawal.

Hobby: you have X problems, you find something that helps you with depression, you have X-1 problems, you stop, you have X problems again.

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Re:Seattle vacates hundreds of marijuana charges going back ... by pmoriarty on Saturday April 28, 2018 @11:19PM (#16950542)
They are not the same, but they share two key properties: their danger and potential addictiveness.

Most people would not even seriously consider making extreme sports illegal, despite their danger and potential addictiveness, but it's those very same properties of some illegal drugs that are most frequently cited as the primary reasons for making them illegal.

If those are honestly the main reasons that so many drugs are illegal, then why not make extreme sports illegal as well, for those very same reasons?

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