As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by fzeroracer on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:08PM (#31852093)

What? Like, films such as Reefer Madness were created at the height of the anti-marijuana propaganda drive fueled by strongly racist rhetoric to stamp out minorities. That drive and rhetoric dictated US policy for over 50 years, resulted in increasing penalties against marijuana users and leads up to the current day where it's still classified as Schedule I drug.

Your framing of the situation is just remarkably wrong considering the entire legal history of marijuana in the US.

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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by lostmsu on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:10PM (#31853004)

Your comment kinda demonstrates his point though. He made a comparison, and you pointed out that what he compared weed consumption to is crazy. And you said absolutely nothing about weed consumption itself which is required to understand the validity of the comparison. And not providing that part is exactly demonstrating the lack of self-awareness.

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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by fzeroracer on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:04PM (#31854471)

His comparison was between your average smoker arguing for legality vs an entire institution that was setup to criminalize and demonize them for decades, then calling them equally a problem. What exactly here would change the validity of the comparison?

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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by lostmsu on Saturday June 25, 2022 @01:43AM (#31872875)

At least claiming that your average smoker arguing for legality would provide more substantiated arguments, than the institution in question.

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