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Every state is supposed to be a "laboratory" of democracy, but we really screwed the pooch with cannabis legalization. At least one state should have gone the way with absolutely zero marketing allowed (like tobacco currently is), and all containers should be in standardized, sterile, black & white containers, with only the name & description of the product, and big warnings describing the dangers (like cigarette packs in Australia).

24 legalized states, and not one chose this approach which is a shame.

>>BobAli+(OP)
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?

>>olyjoh+lE1
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.

>>alan-c+rb2
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.

>>lotsof+0o2
The high levels of thc concentration make the new drugs ‘not your dad’s weed’

>>alan-c+rb2
The most ambitious people I've ever known were all Google employees and most of them enjoyed marijuana after work.

>>olyjoh+lE1
Risk of killing someone while driving high

>>menset+rr2
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.

>>alan-c+rb2
University and college do just fine in destroying hopes, ambitions and wasting your twenties.

>>alan-c+rb2
The world is full of weed-smoking go-getters, you just don't know who they are