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Slowing a response system clearly isn't socially advantageous in any society where people are going to be operating any method of transportation like cars, bikes etc etc. I wouldn't have a major opposition to it if people didn't habitually attempt to leave the house while still high. Not to mention the consumption of it exposing others to chemicals through air pollution.
oh hell yes now we're talking. so you're in favor of banning cigarettes, campfires, candles, gas stoves, and shit why not, indoor cooking too right?
Indoor cooking serves a social purpose that marijuana doesn't. We can't just do away with it. As for the other things, they are already legal most places, if they were illegal I would most certainly oppose legalizing them and cigarettes should also be banned for the innocent people they kill through causing impaired driving and exposing innocent people to their smoke.
big time yeah, but so does smoking. for that matter, so does alcohol.
sure we could! we can just do it outside.
ngl if all you've got is "well these things are legal and this one isn't" then i'm deeply uninterested. "but it's illegal!" okay so what? in the u.s. at least those laws were created explicitly to target and demonize black people and progressive movements. i listed the things i did bc they're all harmful to human health in one way or another. candles put out a similar level of air pollution to smoking cigarettes inside. campfires? oh you better believe that shit is terrible for you. my point is that you're not really being honest about the reasoning behind your beliefs. it's okay to say "i think this should be banned because i don't like it." maybe nobody will agree with you! maybe they will. at least it would be truthful.
I am not using the law as a justification but rather saying that something already being socially unacceptable for the majority of people and already being illegal is easier to counteract than something that these is no base for its elimination already. It is easier to oppose something already illegal than saying we should eliminate something from scratch even if I agree with you that it ought to be eliminated long term. Smoking and alcohol do not serve the same purpose as cooking and are unnecessary and easily replaceable.
rapidly losing interest here but illegality in no way corresponds to social unacceptability. i'm not sure why you would ever make the mistake of conflating the two tbh.
Marijuana is socially unacceptable by many people outside of those in criminal circles and it's level of acceptability can be counteracted through media and education
no sorry i think you might just be a loser. D.A.R.E already exists and it never changed anyone's mind.
Ah yes, I am the loser. Not the person promoting drug addiction