Almost like it was always a grift
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.
Almost like it was always a grift
They’re really putting the fed into feddit.
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But the administration stopped short of a definitive assessment, saying that due to the chaos of the war in Gaza it could not verify specific instances where use of those weapons might have been involved in alleged breaches.
Just throw a dart at a map
No way they were using all those weapons for genocide??!!!?!
lmao as if he’s just now realizing this, sure thing.
I can do both.
Death to Israel. Death to America.
He put down an anti-government uprising by slaughtering 18,000 people. “Not perfect” is an understatement.
Okay yeah climate change is causing a mass extinction event and turning the planet into an uninhabitable hellhole for future generations but won’t anyone think about the economy???
It means the US War Department, who has been funneling weapons to Israel for them to use in their genocide of Palestinians, have investigated themselves and found they have done nothing wrong.
Death to America. Death to Israel.
Again, it’s not binary for me
Should it be legal for consenting adults or not? Sounds like a binary question to me.
we shouldn’t also (in my opinion) just open the gates and let this substance into foray of our daily lives
You speak as if legalizing cannabis will suddenly make it available everywhere, but it won’t, because it already is everywhere, and it has been for decades. I had no trouble obtaining weed before my state legalized it, and I’m just a boring ass suburban white dude who barely knows anybody. Criminalization has never made cannabis go away, and continued criminalization isn’t going to change that.
I appreciate that you’re concerned about drug abuse and drug addiction, and those are real concerns that I don’t want to minimize, but refusing to legalize it won’t solve those problems, because most countries have been doing that for the better part of a century and it plainly hasn’t worked. If people want to abuse drugs, they’re going to abuse them whether or not they can acquire them legally. But at least when it’s legal people won’t have to fear going to jail because they got harassed by a cop while in possession, and making it legal reduces the stigma of drug abuse and makes seeking treatment easier to do.
If you are a leftist you should be against the criminalization of drug use or drug possession, especially for a drug as relatively harmless as cannabis. Like this really is a no-brainer, throwing someone in jail because they’re addicted to drugs doesn’t help them in any conceivable way. Drug abuse is a mental health problem and should be treated like one. Get them therapy and addiction support to help them get over it, and stop criminalizing drugs for people who can use it responsibly.
The most boomer shit I’ve seen on lemmy yet lmao. Reefer madness ass take.
Of course. But look around you. Our governments won’t do that, and no political party that could make it to power is pushing a platform like that. I’m more than happy to make kids playgrounds out of concrete if I knew that bandages were free.
So we should just throw up our hands and do nothing rather than fight for justice.
I agree. But it’s not like Alcohol usage will go down once Cannabis is legalized. If anything, people will use them together in a vicious cycle.
So? There are systems that can deal with these problems. Addiction clinics, therapy, support groups.
Throwing baseball bats into a dangerous hockey arena is never a good idea, even if the bats are made of foam.
Why would foam bats be dangerous to throw into a hockey arena? Have you ever been to a hockey game? They wear all kinds of protective equipment. Throwing foam bats at them would probably not hurt that much, if at all. Actually sounds like it would be pretty fun.
Alcohol’s effects are immediately visible. It’s hard to be an alcoholic and still look at yourself in the mirror happily the next morning. Weed has no such negative phenotype, if anything you will look happier the next morning for abusing it.
Cannabis use is such a menace to society that people who abuse it *checks notes* feel happier the next morning. The horror!
I get that cannabis isn’t a completely harmless drug, like most drugs legal or otherwise, but “it’s not perfectly safe so it should just keep being criminalized” is a bad take that has an entire history of not working. Legalize it and deal with the problems that crop up. Addiction and drug abuse aren’t new problems, we know how to handle them. And for the yet undiscovered health problems that cannabis might cause, legalizing it will open up avenues for research so we can actually figure out its dangers instead of just writing off all cannabis users as (as another user puts it) “mentally fried idiots” or just repeating the same reefer madness nonsense that’s been going around since the Nixon administration.
So legalize it and put effort into treating addictions and mental illnesses. This isn’t very hard.
Yeah of course, alcohol is just as bad, or worse in extreme cases
Most if not all cases. Cannabis is objectively less dangerous in practically every way.
Pot’s effects are internal
And alcohol’s effects aren’t?
Israel has built about 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem - land the Palestinians want as part of a future state - in the 1967 Middle East war.
Implying they didn’t already own the land before Zionists stole it from them. Fuck you, BBC.
I love how desperate they are to frame this as a bad thing.