|
Poppyseed Poundcake posted:Can we point out how racist most weed legalization efforts and advocates are?
|
#
¿
Dec 8, 2016 09:48
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 30, 2024 17:57 |
|
|
TapTheForwardAssist posted:In recent news, Denmark *had* been doing that for a long while in one neighborhood of Copenhagen, a squat-collective called Christiania. Until very recently, they had hashish stalls set up like they were food trucks down one whole segment of the neighborhood, hundreds of customers milling around and buying hash to smoke while playing backgammon on the patios. It wasn't technically legal but the authorities were willing to turn a blind eye so long as the area stayed calm, though they did infiltrate the area trying to ferret out the actual wholesalers and nail them elsewhere. But just this fall the cops stopped one of the bag-runners for the dealers and he shot some cops, so the neighborhood itself voted to tear down all the stalls on "Pusher Street" and ask people to stop coming to their neighborhood to buy weed: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/02/denmark-copenhagen-christiania-residents-demolish-drug-stalls-after-shooting
|
|
#
¿
Dec 12, 2016 12:14
|
|
|
Sounds kind of similar to what some people experience (after) using LSD.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 19, 2017 12:59
|
|
|
Yeah, now even a majority of Republicans support it: http://news.gallup.com/poll/221018/record-high-support-legalizing-marijuana.aspx The disconnect between nearly 2/3rds supporting recreational legalization (and presumably significantly more yet that support medical) and a DEA that keeps it at Schedule 1 is utterly bizarre at this point.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 27, 2017 11:20
|
|
|
That Gallup poll had even Republicans at a slight majority of support, pretty soon opposing legal marijuana will become untenable for politicians in most areas.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 1, 2017 16:38
|
|
|
That sounds like a pretty bad and dumb setup.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2017 10:24
|
|
|
Think you might be confusing Vermont with Virginia there. Vermont is further north than Massachusetts, which has already legalized.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 30, 2017 11:05
|
|
|
Utah got medical even in spite of the LDS church coming out against the prop.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 7, 2018 11:22
|
|
|
Legalizing weed also has strong national level support, but nevertheless there's been hardly any movement on legalizing it federally. IIRC the issue is that while most people think it should be legalized, it's not a dealbreaker issue to many the way taxes or gay marriage can be. People aren't gonna vote out their favored councilperson just because of a bad weed stance if they like their other positions.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 2, 2019 16:56
|
|
|
Now that North America has a significant legal recreational market that covers like 100 million people or something, I'd be pretty surprised if Europe was more advanced in weed growing.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 22, 2020 23:35
|
|
|
Relatedly, Oregon also legalized therapeutic psilocybin, and decriminalized all drugs. https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/11/oregon-becomes-first-state-to-legalize-psychedelic-mushrooms.html https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/11/oregon-decriminalizes-possession-of-street-drugs-becoming-first-in-nation.html edit: I guess I should say, they decriminalized "personal possession amounts". Though apparently larger amounts are now misdemeanors instead of felonies. Cicero fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Nov 5, 2020 |
|
#
¿
Nov 5, 2020 01:33
|
|
|
Unless there's a federal override like with gay marriage, I wouldn't expect it to be legal in all fifty states for like...at least three decades. I'm more surprised how little movement there's been in Europe to legalize marijuana, especially now that it's legal all across Canada. The US is ahead of Europe on this issue.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 14, 2020 21:34
|
|
|
Parrotine posted:Yeah that's a bit much, I remember hearing the same predictions for Equal Marriage Rights back in 2010. If gay marriage was dependent on legislation, it'd still be illegal in some states.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 28, 2020 02:20
|
|
|
Parrotine posted:Still standing by it, especially after elections.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 29, 2020 00:22
|
|
|
Sounds great, but the odds of this actually passing through the Senate are super low, right? I feel like you could maybe get to 60 if you just went for, "well, we'll make it not illegal at the federal level anymore and just leave it up to the states", that could work with moderate conservatives, but flat out legalizing it nationally seems like it would just get a party line vote at best.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 31, 2021 22:42
|
|
|
It's also possible it causes a reduction in suicides: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4232164/quote:Results. After adjustment for economic conditions, state policies, and state-specific linear time trends, the association between legalizing medical marijuana and suicides was not statistically significant at the .05 level. However, legalization was associated with a 10.8% (95% confidence interval [CI] = −17.1%, −3.7%) and 9.4% (95% CI = −16.1%, −2.4%) reduction in the suicide rate of men aged 20 through 29 years and 30 through 39 years, respectively. Estimates for females were less precise and sensitive to model specification.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 24, 2021 01:13
|
|
|
Germany might get legal recreational weed: https://www.marijuanamoment.net/germany-set-to-legalize-marijuana-nationwide-after-major-parties-reach-agreement/ This would be the first country in Europe to have for-real legal recreational marijuana, I think?
|
|
#
¿
Nov 19, 2021 07:45
|
|
|
What sucks about Malta? Visited once and it was mostly pretty awesome.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 14, 2021 22:22
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 30, 2024 17:57 |
|
|
Lawsuits?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 28, 2024 23:10
|
|