A little pretext: I've never smoked weed before.
I also come from a place where weed is super illegal.
I am not writing this to bash weed and people who do it.
It's just my take on this issue based on honest curiosity.
I'd love to know all your thoughts. Keep it clean folks.
1) Weed is a herb
So therefore, people who've gotten their hands on it can easily grow it.
This'd fuck the economy up. Consequences include less sales of cigarettes, alcohol and other stuff.
So hence, there're consequences here on a big-picture scale.
What exactly? I am not sure.
2) All it takes is a little weed to get high
You can drink a little alcoholic beverage and you wouldn't get drunk (unless you totally suck ass.)
You will however, get high from just smoking once.
Therefore, there're consequences here that'd affect one's health and it'd be hard to control this as it'd be hard to measure what constitutes "high" for each individual.
3) Legalizing weed would get mixed up with other laws
There's a law against drink driving.
If weed becomes legal, then there has to be a law against high driving.
Therefore, there're political consequences here. It'd take a lot of time to get all of these laws in place.
4) It makes a person okay with being bored
In the words of Randy Marsh from South Park...
I guess this argument is a personal one, which I agree with. There're many vices out there, like partying and alcohol which holds merit for the same argument.
However, combining with the other points here, it may inch towards some bad consequences and it's better to erron the side of caution.
5) There're unknown consequences going way back and having internet knowledge doesn't mean you're right
Look man...
As far as I am concerned, the people who constantly advocate the legalization of weed today simply have internet knowledge.
They about something from some weird source online and then assume that it is, and they're right. This is confirmation bias.
Heck, even I honestly here only have internet knowledge. People are totally for weed would probably be pissed off with this article and are ready to pounce on me.
I wasn't alive eons ago. I am not part of a world where illegal, and now legal weed is rampant. I was not and am not around to see firsthand the (bad) consequences of weed.
Just as how you think weed is totally safe, healthy and should be legal, there're definitely a ton of people who feel for certain it needs to be illegal.
So yep!
These are my thoughts.
Please share what you think. Keep the discussion clean please.
Peace,
Alden
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