• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Weed is such a harmless little bullshit drug to be so ridiculously over-the-top hyper criminalized in some countries like bruh.

    Weed is gonna ruin your life because if you have it on your person imma sens you to prison for 30 fucking years and ruin your life.

    It does not. Make. Sense.

    • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 hours ago

      The only issue I have with weed, and most other drugs, is that you can’t easily test for them in a person’s system, meaning that you can’t know if someone’s driving under the influence. This wouldn’t be as much of a problem if not for the fact that we have have such a car centric society. I don’t like people endangering other people just for a buzz.

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        4 hours ago

        You can easily test if they’re in someone’s system with a saliva test, so your argument doesn’t make any sense.

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          6 hours ago

          I don’t think this is “car brained”. They’re not saying anything around public transit, just that we need to have a test for DWI and weed. People shouldn’t be jailed for 30 years regardless of the presence of the test or not, but we do still need some other test. Otherwise I guarantee that “don’t drive while baked” will be the next infomercial you see in a few years.

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            5 hours ago

            Missing the point a bit, we shouldn’t base legalization around if people are going to drive their cars on a substance.

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        6 hours ago

        I am 100% on bike I see no argument on there. Just don’t smoke 3 day before you have to drive.

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            7 hours ago

            They can be used when pulled over just like a breathylyzer (although this is the law in my state and I’m in USA all places may not have the same rules) but I do see what you are saying about hooking it up to the car like the breath machines.

            Man, someone could potentially make a lot of money to be the first ones to roll that out.

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              57 minutes ago

              All that means is the person consumed THC within the last 24h. Even blood is 12 hours, and there’s really no correlation between THC levels and impairment, especially with regular users.

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        6 hours ago

        Eh, you can still do a blood test in conjunction with a field sobriety test. Its not as cut and dry as something like alcohol, but to be honest it really shouldn’t be anyways considering how much more dangerous driving while drunk is.

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          59 minutes ago

          Blood THC levels aren’t indicative of impairment. Even high levels are only weakly associated with impairment in occasional users, and there’s no correlation in regular users.

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      23 hours ago

      Outlawing cannabis products was essentially an exercise in deliberate systemic racism in the US. (Nixon).

      Unsure about the rest of the world.

  • Gork@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Welcome to South Korea! We’re the best Korea since we have weed and no generational concentration camps!