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Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by olyjohn on Friday September 27, 2024 @10:27PM (#41677411)
They're not cigarettes. Nobody is sitting down and smoking 40 joints a day. What serious dangers are there besides the fact that you might eat the entire bag of Doritos while watching Planet Earth?
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by alan-crowe on Saturday September 28, 2024 @07:09AM (#41679463)
The important context is that life is short, just seventy years, and has stages, your early twenties are a magical time. Losing your ambition and wasting your early twenties are a subtle danger, but nevertheless a serious danger.
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by ThunderSizzle on Saturday September 28, 2024 @07:48AM (#41679628)
We're already a generation too late. Many women have wasted their 20s chasing higher education and careers that they will come to regret. Sadly, once a women works past her child bearing age, she can't go back and get it.

We use to know this, but how many women have entered their 30s with no prospect for a husband or kids, many of which don't have one for the sole reason of executing a great worthwhile career.

It's ironic, because most men treat a career as a means to an end - it's something I've learned and became good at to make money to provide for myself and my eventually family. Women don't start a career thinking about their eventual family they are trying to support.

It's an odd world.

Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by lotsofpulp on Saturday September 28, 2024 @09:54AM (#41680242)
One of the more ridiculous assertions I have seen, as if cannabis causes people to lose ambitions, any more than a million other things that can happen in society.

You know, like wage stagnation in the face of skyrocketing real estate costs.

Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by mensetmanusman on Saturday September 28, 2024 @10:35AM (#41680455)
The high levels of thc concentration make the new drugs ‘not your dad’s weed’
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by lotsofpulp on Sunday September 29, 2024 @08:58AM (#41687055)
Is there any data to show population wide issues being caused by this “not your dad’s weed”?

And even if there were, how is it any different than being able to buy 80 proof vodka versus 4.5% beer.

I reject any argument for cannabis regulation as long as alcohol is less restricted. I don’t even use cannabis, or ever have. I just know from lots of experience that people high on cannabis have caused me zero problems, compared to an innumerable problems from people high on alcohol.

Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by snozolli on Saturday September 28, 2024 @11:13AM (#41680757)
The most ambitious people I've ever known were all Google employees and most of them enjoyed marijuana after work.
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by imtringued on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @05:15AM (#41706209)
University and college do just fine in destroying hopes, ambitions and wasting your twenties.
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by pdntspa on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @12:45PM (#41710872)
The world is full of weed-smoking go-getters, you just don't know who they are
Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by nxm on Sunday September 29, 2024 @06:57AM (#41686496)
Risk of killing someone while driving high