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Why the fuck is alcohol legal and and weed isn’t? Alcohol is way worse

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Anonymous 5w

If someone next to me is drinking alcohol i literally couldn’t care less. If someone next to me is smoking weed, not only could I get second hand high which I don’t want, it smells like shit

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Anonymous 5w

Im studying to get a degree criminal psychology and im a bit of a pothead myself lol. A lot of the stigma stems from racism in the early 20th century. It became associated with immigrants and minorities so it kind of snowballed from there. The criminalization of it basically reinforced those ideas so it became a cycle. Stigma as a whole is a very interesting concept in terms of sociology and psychology, you should look into it.

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Anonymous 5w

I know right??? It makes no sense. Second hand alcohol exposure puts you at risk of literal physical violence

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Anonymous 5w

No one should be going to jail for weed, or have a record for that matter. But I’m sick of stoners saying it’s harmless. It absolutely destroys your personality, emotional attachments, and cognition. You can deny it until you can’t.

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Anonymous 5w

because alcohol harms you snd makes more money while weed can be used medically and save people more money. the government hates us and wants our money

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Anonymous 5w

Bc the world is stupid af and they like making random laws

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Anonymous 5w

Historically it’s due to anti Hispanic rhetoric post-prohibition

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Anonymous 5w

Or how about realizing both of them are bad addictions, and that if you absolutely must have the substance to abuse there’s a time and place and that’s away from the public and others.

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Anonymous 5w

Facts but i feel like its because the government can control alcohol. You cant regulate weed tbh

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Anonymous 5w

Weed is legal in my state 😇

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Anonymous 5w

The last time the country tried to make alcohol illegal the country erupted, not just a handful of people. Additionally that smells terribly, whereas alcohol has a longer line of history.

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Anonymous 5w

Exactly and why are shrooms so stigmatized

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Anonymous 5w

weed is legal…

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Anonymous 5w

It’s literally just because alcohol is pretty much a cultural universal, so outlawing it is impossible, whereas weed has an association with people the American government does not like (Black people and the anti-war left in the 1960s) and isn’t used by literally everyone so it was easier to ban for a long time

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Anonymous 5w

Fr alcohol is sm worse

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Anonymous 5w

It’s called the “alcohol lobby” ever wondered how shitty things became the way they are in government? There’s a super pac for that.

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Anonymous 5w

Well they tried making it illegal once. That was a whole thing historically. Literally an era named after the time liquor was illegal

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Anonymous 5w

racism

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Anonymous 5w

Racism

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Anonymous 5w

Prohibition didn’t work, and the hemp industry threatened the profits of the timber industry so their executives lobbied congress to criminalize weed and pushed public narratives claiming weed made people (specifically African Americans) violent.

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Anonymous 5w

The smell of weed, and cigs, give me migraines. If I had to smell that shit all the time I’d end it💀

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Anonymous

#1 5w

Alcohol makes people not know what they are doing. And very aggressive. Weed keeps people calm and relaxed

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Anonymous

OP 5w

I don’t want to be at a football game and smell weed. If it were legal people would smoke it everywhere. You can’t drink alcohol anywhere you want. If there’s specific places designated to smoke weed at then sure. But you can’t force people to smell that shit

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Anonymous

#1 5w

Weed smells so good idk what y’all talkin abt

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Anonymous

#3 5w

Init.

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Anonymous

OP 5w

Personally weed makes me have a panic attack

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Anonymous

#5 5w

I smoke weed in my own place. In my car. In my car park

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Anonymous 5w

Like I said. I do it in my own car. In my parking space.

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Anonymous 5w

I have every right to smoke weed as another person who drinks alcohol

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Anonymous 5w

BOTH should be illegal. Neither of them are better than the other.

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Anonymous

#5 5w

Although cannabis is good for pain, people dealing with mental health, and chronic illness’s

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Anonymous 5w

Then don’t smoke it lmao why do you care so much if other people like to

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Anonymous 5w

Weed makes me paranoid so I just don’t hang out around weed idc if other people wanna smoke it by themselves

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Anonymous 5w

Broski I’m not getting high from someone else’s clothes and I have the lowest tolerance on earth

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Anonymous 5w

There’s reasons it’s illegal but people want to defend it bc they love the high, the same way alcohol used to be illegal but people wanted the drug so bad they got it and now look at us.

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Anonymous 5w

Idk why you’re so incensed about the idea of someone drinking or smoking. Becoming an adult means that you get to self-regulate. You get to decide what risks you wanna take and self-moderate. People make different decisions, and you don’t have the moral high ground just because you decide to abstain from everything.

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Anonymous 5w

Everything that’s bad for you can’t be illegal because we’re not 4 years old and the government isn’t our mommy

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Anonymous

#1 5w

I mean I hate the smell of cigarettes, do I complain about being “forced” to smell it? No lol I either walk away or deal with it, it’s not life ending. Plus edibles are great for pain relief and won’t get your panties in a twist over a smell. No reason alcohol should be more legal, more accessible, and more normalized. Alcohol is chemically addictive and just as damaging to the body as prolong weed smoking

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Anonymous 5w

It’ll transfer over lmaooooooo 😭 brotha thinks the smell will seep into your skin through osmosis. If you’re in a car specifically trying to hotbox, yeah. But no, someone does not get high from smelling it on somebody’s clothes lmfao .

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Anonymous 5w

You could say that about steak and fries. Some people have addictions. Those people need help and empathy. Laws aren’t going to fix the root of the problem. The trauma and addiction is the issue, not the substance itself.

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Anonymous 5w

not everyone who recreationally uses drugs is addicted. it’s just fun. as long as you’re not being a dick about where you’re smoking or letting yourself get into a state that you hurt someone, who cares.

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Anonymous

#1 5w

Second hand high Baha🥴

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Anonymous

#1 5w

i mean you can literally die from cigarettes and they’re legal, and second hand smoke from that is a thing too. just doesn’t make sense that weed is seen as the “worst”

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Anonymous

#1 5w

There are edibles and vapes which cause contact highs. If we had dedicated smoking areas like for cigarettes then it wouldn’t affect you. Also, most legal states only allow for personal use in the home. Even then, you smell much worse walking through a city. I’m not the biggest fan of the smell but i’d prefer it over sewage and trash any day.

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Anonymous

#1 5w

whats the difference between that and cigarettes??????

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Anonymous

#5 5w

so the question was why is one illegal and the other isn’t

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Anonymous

#5 5w

Holy shit, people use RECREATIONAL drugs because it’s FUN?! Who would thought…

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Anonymous

#15 5w

Don’t cause contact highs*

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Anonymous

#15 5w

This needs to have so many more upvotes that’s straight facts

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Anonymous

#20 5w

Depends on the person i myself havent lost anything from daily motivation to personally but i do see wym as for some ppl

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Anonymous

#1 5w

second hand high is crazy, you legit have to be hotboxed to do that you’ll be fine

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Anonymous

#15 5w

As someone who was pursuing her LCDC license, this guy is correct and I also learned about this

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Anonymous

#24 5w

Not federally my guy, it’s state by state

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Anonymous

#15 5w

Alcohol has its place in American history as commonplace. Weed doesn’t. Not saying that’s right or wrong, but just puts it into perspective. Give it a few generations

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Anonymous

#20 5w

Yeah, I don’t think it’s harmless, but if you were to ask which was MORE harmful, alcohol or weed, the answer is always gonna be alcohol.

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Anonymous

#20 5w

Its harmfulness really depends on how you’re using it. I have an edible like once a month and have had no change in personality or relationships or cognition. you can abuse anything to the point of serious harm.

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Anonymous

OP 5w

Not me lol I get relaxed with alcohol and hyper with weed. Idk if me having ADHD has anything to do with that but I suspect it. Either way I completely agree: weed is 10000x safer

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Anonymous

#1 5w

You will not get high second hand lmao

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Anonymous

#1 5w

babe second hand high is barely even real u literally have to be in a small space getting hot boxes i promise you’ll be fine the smell of alcohol isn’t very good either

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Anonymous

#26 5w

My parents have smoked for at least 40 yrs and took me to legalizing protests as a baby sooo… wait for the boomers to die off (and the politicians who are scared it’s gonna hurt their money making alcohol) got it.

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Anonymous

#31 5w

Cigs i can agree on but they r legal so i don’t see why weed isn’t plus cigs can cause cancer alot more

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Anonymous

#1 5w

retweet

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Anonymous

#1 5w

true this.

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Anonymous

#1 5w

i would never live with anyone who smokes weed bc the smell reeks ass

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Anonymous

#4 5w

your mom’s body selected the strongest sperm and this is all it could come up with LMFAOOOOO a wimp that cries and freaks out when they smell weed omg

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Anonymous

#38 5w

That’s true too here in Wisconsin the bars are so powerful they keep weed from being legalized and they also stop alcohol delivery from being legal on doordash and shit all because it increases the likelihood of people drinking at bars. Alcohol isn’t even legal to purchase in stores during prime bar/club hours

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Anonymous

#25 4w

yepp those were the prohibition times

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Anonymous

#17 4w

it’s illegal in my state without a med card 💔💔

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Anonymous

#13 4w

because the government is fucking stupid and it should have been the other way around

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Anonymous

#13 4w

alcohol is literally worse than weed in my opinion

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Anonymous

#37 4w

It’s not even really an opinion, you can drink so much in one sitting that you fucking die, it would be physically impossible to smoke enough weed to get the lethal dose of THC

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