I can definitely understand peoples’ issues with it being consumed, especially in a political context, but how do yall feel about “weed”? I won’t hide my feelings, I am very much pro-weed, it’s not great that I started in my mid-teens but in my area it’s FAR from uncommon. I don’t smoke daily or anything, I’m not addicted to it (people say it’s non-habit forming but any drug can be addictive with enough frequent usage) but I do smoke and dab w/ friends often. That’s not why I believe in legalization tho, my main thing is you shouldn’t make a naturally occurring plant an illegal substance. I’d point to the DEA’s destructive (legal) burning of thousands of naturally occurring marijuana plants found in nature; This seems eco-fascist to me and to deny the uses of hemp as a production material seems dogmatic to me. The USSR used hemp for industrial purposes during the war and it helped in a major way. I’m sure most of us are familiar with the badge given for Hemp growers. If you have any criticisms, I’m more than open to it, but I feel that marijuana won’t be easy to get rid of in future society and would probably be put to use in different more productive ways.
I don’t see much value in doing that to be honest, and I don’t think it would be possible to accomplish that to any meaningful effect in western culture.
Long term we should work against the consumptions of it but yeah, it wouldn’t work well by immediately banning it. I’m just saying those two existing wouldn’t inherently justify marijuana if someone is against those
I think it’s more of an argument that society generally functions fine with those two being legal, and since weed is arguably less dangerous there’s no rational reason to ban it.
The idea that we shouldn’t allow a substance to temporarily alter our state of mind with the possibility of permanently changing how we think about things really feels like internalized bourgeois ideology. Psychedelics do a pretty good job of lifting the veil of liberalism in my own experience.
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I never saw the movie “They Live” but I hear that some people interpreted the glasses in the film to be like psychedelics, is that accurate? I have not done psychedelics or seen the movie lol so I have no clue
I didn’t see it either. I just peeked at a YouTube clip and I would say it’s way more subtle than that. I guess you could say the result is the same if the result is the realization that things may not be as they appear. I did get so high on mushrooms one time that many of my visual memories from that day are monochromatic.